Mobile payments

02 Nov 17 @ 16:34

Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments... read more

01 Nov 17 @ 10:38

Google has made several announcements around Google Tez, the payments app that the search giant had launched in India last month. Based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the NPCI’s payments platform for the... read more

31 Oct 17 @ 10:15

A new study has found the countries among the 20 largest economies who are adapting quickest to using cashless systems like phones and contactless cards – revealing that Canada narrowly... read more

30 Oct 17 @ 11:28

The fifth annual cross-border e-commerce research report has been published in collaboration with Juniper Research and reveals cross-border e-commerce trends in 2017. The paper includes the results of a global survey of... read more

24 Oct 17 @ 11:27

Google has launched Pay with Google, making it easier for people to pay on their Android devices, using any card they have on file with the firm’s various services, such as... read more

20 Oct 17 @ 09:33

Digital payments are growing rapidly in Asia, fuelled by increasing smartphone ownership and improving access to the internet. An increasing array of solutions such as digital wallets, mobile payment apps... read more

19 Oct 17 @ 18:24

We live in digital times. Customers are increasingly shopping online and on mobile devices. In fact, the number of Europeans regularly using a mobile device — smartphone, tablet or wearable... read more

18 Oct 17 @ 13:00

In a new report, PSD2 and Europe’s Open Banking Mandate, we aim to analyse the implications of the revised Payment Services Directive, PSD2, for the European banking industry and Open Banking... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 12:58

Visa has announced the results of an independent study examining the economic impact of Cashless Cities and increasing the use of digital payments in major cities around the world. The... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 12:22

Wells Fargo & Company say that debit card customers can use the company’s ATMs without their card with NFC functionality that is launching at more than 5,000 ATMs across the US.... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 09:00

Global online retail is increasing rapidly with a forecasted growth rate of 17% in 2017. Asia now ‘owns’ 50% of the global B2C e-commerce market. This is one of the... read more

10 Oct 17 @ 13:37

According to the World Payments Report, global non-cash transaction volumes grew 11.2% during 2014–2015 to reach 433.1 billion, the highest growth of the past decade, and slightly above last year’s... read more