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24 May 17 @ 09:57

Spanish bank BBVA says it is open for business with its Open Banking programme and is making eight of its APIs commercially available for the first time ahead of the new PSD2... read more

23 May 17 @ 13:26

New research from FIS reveals that Britain’s challenger banks are outscoring their High Street counterparts in meeting their needs for digital payments, easy to understand and use products/services, innovative products/services and... read more

23 May 17 @ 12:57

TransferWise has extended its offering by launching a new service that takes it into the realms of looking more like a bank. For the first time, TransferWise will hold money on deposit for its... read more

22 May 17 @ 14:34

The Internet of Things will change how commerce and transactions are conducted, and in turn will require changes in payments. For the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver on its... read more

19 May 17 @ 12:21

Global card purchase volume for goods and services, which excludes cash advances on credit cards and cash withdrawals on debit cards across the global card networks, grew by 5.8% to... read more

19 May 17 @ 12:11

Adoption of more expensive chip cards continues to drive global card growth with 70% of all financial cards now having a chip, according to the International Card Manufacturers Association’s (ICMA) release... read more

19 May 17 @ 11:22

The Euro Banking Association has issued a new information paper looking into potential benefits and use cases of cryptotechnologies in the context of international payments and more specifically correspondent banking practices.... read more

18 May 17 @ 10:24

Credit, debit, and prepaid general purpose and private label cards issued in the United States generated $5.936 trillion in payments for goods and services in 2016. Card fees, which include... read more

18 May 17 @ 10:11

The UK Payments industry, along with the rest of Europe, is facing a raft of challenges in the near future, from the proliferation of alternative payment channels, increasingly demanding merchant... read more

18 May 17 @ 09:46

In news from the Google I/O the tech giant announced that they will partner Android Pay and PayPal for a mobile payments platform, the companies announced this morning. The partnership... read more

17 May 17 @ 12:55

Just days after a coalition of 56 FinTech vendors lobbied the European Banking Authority in a strongly worded petition regarding the practice of Screen Scraping, The European Banking Federation (EBF) is asking the... read more

17 May 17 @ 09:00

STS has launchesd PayOp, its next generation payments operational management system. PayOp will support traditional terminal management functions alongside new smart features such as analytics and operational insight. Critically, PayOp is... read more