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27 Feb 19 @ 21:22

Forecasts predict that by 2022, just 17% of global payments will be made by cash. Meanwhile, digital and mobile wallet usage will continue to rise, accounting for 28% of all... read more

27 Feb 19 @ 17:13

Some payments industry commentators have described Artificial Intelligence (AI) as “the fourth industrial revolution”, after the steam engine, electricity and computing – and there’s no doubt that AI has significant... read more

27 Feb 19 @ 11:21

Blockchain has been seen as a panacea for all that ails the financial services and payments industries, but expectations for the distributed ledger technology have been falling almost as fast... read more

25 Feb 19 @ 17:13

In December 2018 on the earnings call for Apple, analysts were given several incremental data points on the usage of Apple Pay. It may seem like an insignificant piece of... read more

25 Feb 19 @ 14:33

Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal has gone on record with CNBC and said that the digital payments industry may become a $100 trillion market as the financial technology sector... read more

25 Feb 19 @ 14:20

The U.S. Spending Snapshot shows growth in consumer spending via electronic payments like credit cards, debit cards and mobile wallets more than doubled year-over-year from the third quarter (Q3) 2017... read more

22 Feb 19 @ 14:06

The Indian e-commerce market is estimated to miss the market growth expectations as e-commerce behemoths, which were formally going full throttle, seem to have slowed down ever since the new FDI rules kicked in... read more

22 Feb 19 @ 12:06

From gateways to issuers, today’s payments providers have a treasure trove of data at their fingertips. By using it to generate insights into consumer purchasing behaviour, and coupling these insights with... read more

22 Feb 19 @ 11:30

While enterprises began introducing biometrics into the authentication process decades ago, the introduction of the technology into mobile devices was the catalyst for the consumerisation of biometric authentication. The first... read more

20 Feb 19 @ 12:11

Lloyds Banking Group in partnership with Visa has announced a new pilot scheme designed to boost access to cash, which will see local retailers paid to offer cashback to customers... read more

19 Feb 19 @ 14:55

Visa and MasterCard are reported to be planning to increase interchange fees as well as fees that card networks charge financial institutions for processing card payments for merchants. Though merchants... read more

19 Feb 19 @ 07:52

As a leading payments market, credit and debit card payments account for the vast majority of the UK’s online purchases, particularly with the introduction of contactless. However, this doesn’t ring... read more