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Indian Central Bank lifts Mastercard issuing ban

17 Jun 22 @ 11:47

The India Central Bank has lifted its restrictions on Mastercard issuing new cards in the domestic market, nearly a year after imposing the ban, after it demonstrated “satisfactory compliance” with... read more

P27 nears live testing with banks integrated into Swish

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

M2020 Live: Banking Circle supports interoperability between national mobile payment systems

07 Jun 22 @ 19:21

The German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are the first mobile payment systems to become interoperable with one another. Interoperability of the two systems is based on the specifications of... read more

Ingenico enable Alipay+ rollout to millions of merchants, banks and acquirers

31 May 22 @ 13:22

Ingenico and Ant Group have announced details of their  partnership that will allow acquirers and other payment service providers to implement Alipay+ seamlessly across their merchant networks using Ingenico’s PPaaS... read more

Banking Circle acquires account-to-account payment provider SEPAexpress

27 Apr 22 @ 16:24

SEPAexpress, which provides white-labelled account-to-account (A2A) payments for Payments Service Providers (PSPs), merchants and corporates in Europe has been acquired by Banking Circle Group. Less than five years after bringing... read more

Deutsche Bank, BNP Baribas and Crédit Agricole shut down in Russia

25 Mar 22 @ 11:02

Deutsche Bank was the first to go of the big European banks, officially announcing it will shut down business in Russia due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Now, BNP... read more

Is Apple set to launch the Apple Card in the UK next?

24 Mar 22 @ 13:35

There are rumours circulating that Apple has, or is in the process of, purchasing Credit Kudos with an eye to launching its Apple Card in the UK market. The company... read more

European Payments Initiative hits troubles as majority of Banks leave

22 Mar 22 @ 09:37

In late December troubling reports emerged surrounding the European Payments Initiative (EPI) as some European lenders were holding off their plans to join the project. EPI Interim Company, tasked with... read more

Worldline agrees sale of Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business

21 Feb 22 @ 09:00

Worldline has entered into exclusive talks with the Apollo Funds on the basis of a binding offer for the purchase of its Terminals, Solutions & Services (“TSS”) business line. Following the strategic review... read more

Tinkoff chooses BPC’s SaaS payment services to drive Asia expansion

17 Feb 22 @ 10:41

BPC has announced that Tinkoff has selected its SaaS Cloud payment services for its planned expansion to the Philippines. The project is an extension to an existing partnership between the... read more

Discover’s partnership strategy: fostering innovation and growth

09 Feb 22 @ 10:49

In the second of a two-part series on partnerships in payments , Payments Cards & Mobile (PCM) caught up with Jonathon Gould, Regional Managing Director, Global Acceptance, Asia Pacific at Discover... read more

PSR fines five companies for cartel behaviour in the prepaid cards market

18 Jan 22 @ 08:42

In March last year Payments Cards & Mobile reported that the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has set out provisional accusations for five payments companies including Mastercard, in which it stated... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more