E-Money

02 Nov 21 @ 13:19

A new report, The European Payments Landscape in 2030: Implants, embedded ethics and a ‘post-payments’ world, examines the potential issues and innovations that may emerge in the next decade of... read more

18 Oct 21 @ 12:04

There are now some 479 e-money institutions (EMIs) across the European Union and a further 235 in the UK. EMIs store cash for their customers in a digital format for... read more

14 Oct 21 @ 10:34

Over the past decade, core payments processing has become commoditised, squeezing the margins of merchant acquirers. Their future growth is likely to come from providing merchants with value-added services and... read more

14 Oct 21 @ 08:30

The Digital Pound Foundation has been launched by a core group of founding members as an independent forum to support the implementation of a well-designed digital Pound and digital money... read more

13 Oct 21 @ 17:02

For more than a decade, the shift to e-commerce and mobile has brought huge amounts of investment into payments. As further fresh investment rounds are announced, PCM asks whether a... read more

13 Oct 21 @ 10:14

Payments are entering a new experience-driven era (Payments 4.X), ushered in by an accelerated transformation timeline due to COVID-19 and the growing digital appetite of customers, according to the World Payments... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:10

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has recently published a technical whitepaper on retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), becoming one of the 82 countries now exploring the move to... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:05

R3 has acquired the technology and team of the financial asset tokenization specialist Ivno, enabling the use of Ivno-developed capabilities across the Corda platform. This acquisition further strengthens R3’s capabilities in the... read more

11 Oct 21 @ 08:45

Global cross-border payment flows are expected to reach $156 trillion in 2022. This trillion-dollar cross-border payments market is being shaken up by a rush of new entrants that promise to... read more

08 Oct 21 @ 12:06

The pandemic affected business as usual in all sectors. But in the payments industry, business hasn’t been usual for years. So, when lockdowns, supply chain interruptions, and economic uncertainty consumed... read more

30 Sep 21 @ 15:23

Visa has announced the launch of a Universal Payments Channel that will support transactions between stablecoins and CBDCs. It an ambitious idea from Visa at this time as it hopes... read more

23 Sep 21 @ 11:05

A new white paper unveils the markets which will be at the forefront of powering the payments industry in the coming years. Released by Transact Payments Ltd (TPL), it reveals that... read more