Alternative Payments (APMs)

28 Jun 22 @ 16:36

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is on a path similar to the rest of the world: declining cash use and increasingly sophisticated electronic payments. However, this simple... read more

27 Jun 22 @ 17:13

New research into online payments reveals sky-high expectations for seamless, secure transactions as payment choice increases. The survey of 2,000 UK consumers found that new payment innovations are being embraced... read more

21 Jun 22 @ 17:10

A new study has found that the value of biometric authenticated remote mobile payments will reach $1.2 trillion globally by 2027; rising from $332 billion in 2022. This growth of... read more

20 Jun 22 @ 10:55

In mid-January 2021 the four of Irelands largest banks joined forces to launch an instant payments digital payment app, dubbed Synch, that they intended to promote to help fend off... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 09:24

Interac says that Canadians have reached a money movement milestone.  Interac e-Transfer usage has crossed a new threshold, reaching more than 1 billion transactions over a 12-month period for the... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 08:43

At Checkout, we’re committed to enabling businesses like Binance, Blockchain.com, Crypto.com, Farfetch and Sony to thrive in the digital economy. That’s why, for the past few years, we have been... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 16:06

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2022 will be remembered for many things, including the deepest recession since the 1930s and subsequent economic turmoil. Although Europe’s economies have largely recovered, turmoil remains... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 12:04

With much of the world reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, trends in online shopping are slowly starting to normalise again. But several of the seismic shifts seen across... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 10:07

When an American online retailer became the first major merchant worldwide to accept cryptocurrency as payment in 2014, it was big news. Since then, digital currency has entered the mainstream.... read more

15 Jun 22 @ 09:00

The financial space has a long history of exclusionism for small business owners. Slow processes, backwards-looking risk models and finance providers that don’t seem to truly understand the needs of... read more

13 Jun 22 @ 13:05

Despite more than a decade of non-stop innovation in online and digital payments, the majority of businesses are happy to settle for a “vanilla” off-the-shelf card program that doesn’t fit... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 12:44

After nearly two years of painstaking implementation, P27 will soon be ready to transition from working with prospective participants to actual customers. Instant payments are at the top of P27’s... read more