Blockchain

04 Feb 22 @ 16:12

The 2021-2022 Digital and Card Payment Yearbooks from Payments Cards & Mobile suggest payment card use may be starting to decline, to be replaced by digital wallets, direct-to-account payments and... read more

04 Feb 22 @ 15:20

New research from app analytics and marketing platform App Radar has found that 2021 was a record year for crypto apps with over 82.9 million Google Play Store downloads compared... read more

03 Feb 22 @ 16:11

Increasingly blurred boundaries mean that practically anyone can declare themselves a payment provider, using banking-as-a-service to embed payments. Customers can filter this choice through a lens of preference and habit. For firms, complexity... read more

25 Jan 22 @ 12:07

Thanks to the pandemic, consumers have become accustomed to doing almost everything online, accelerating digital transformation and embedding new behaviours. After a 5% in global payment revenues in 2021, the... read more

19 Jan 22 @ 12:53

Following the October 2020 launch of a “sand dollar” by the Bahamian Central Bank, other markets are making moves to normalise the use of cryptocurrencies in their economies with varying... read more

14 Jan 22 @ 10:52

Visa has announced plans to offer central banks and financial institutions a central bank digital currency (CBDC) offering in Q2 2022. The payment provider developed the Visa CBDC Payment Module... read more

13 Jan 22 @ 10:28

Project Helvetia, a joint initiative between The Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub (BISIH) Swiss Centre, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the financial infrastructure operator SIX, has reached the... read more

12 Jan 22 @ 11:00

A group of US banks have announced that they intend to launch their own stablecoin, called USDF, in a move they hope will tackle concerns about the reserves behind nonbank... read more

11 Jan 22 @ 11:55

PayPal has confirmed numerous reports that it is working on a stablecoin. Jose Fernandez da Ponte, senior vice president of crypto and digital currencies at PayPal, confirmed: “We are exploring... read more

11 Jan 22 @ 10:06

New research reveals that 55% of crypto owners – rising to 60% of 18-24 year olds – would rather get paid their salary in cryptocurrency. The top reasons for this... read more

07 Jan 22 @ 16:12

In this post we look at the top payment trends for 2022 – 2021 was a year of transition for the payments industry as we moved towards Payments 4.X −... read more

07 Jan 22 @ 09:40

The NFT market has seen exponential growth in 2021. In order to capitalise on the demand, investors are giving more attention than ever to start-ups in the category. At the... read more