E-Money

05 Feb 20 @ 17:00

Visa is reported to be planning a complete overhaul of its interchange fee structure that merchants pay to accept its cards, hoping to persuade more people to abandon checks and... read more

04 Feb 20 @ 10:14

Independent research conducted for the Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks suggests that account-to-account digital payments may be starting to replace card payments in some of the world’s most advanced payments... read more

03 Feb 20 @ 16:43

Sberbank has analysed cashless payments in Russia under the SberData project, its big data analytics and processing initiative. For the first time ever, over a half of products and services... read more

03 Feb 20 @ 11:03

Worldline has this morning announced it agreed a deal to buy local rival Ingenico in a €7.8 billion deal that will create a global player in the rapidly consolidating payments... read more

30 Jan 20 @ 16:35

Two years ago, opportunity for the FinTech community was abound with the arrival of Open Banking. And while the initial uptake was slow to materialise, we are now finally realising... read more

29 Jan 20 @ 10:57

When people discuss the future of payments they tend to predict the end of cash. Not only do we think cash will be around for a long time, we see... read more

28 Jan 20 @ 16:30

New analysis has found a growing appetite for point of sale credit finance – otherwise known as ‘buy now, pay later’ –  among younger UK consumers, with over 60% (67%)... read more

24 Jan 20 @ 12:53

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) have announce the outcomes of and a report on a joint Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) research project... read more

21 Jan 20 @ 14:29

Banks from across nine EU countries have endorsed a note seeking clarification on the definition of e-money transactions and the related fraud reporting requirements issued by the European Banking Authority... read more

21 Jan 20 @ 14:06

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International... read more

17 Jan 20 @ 10:05

The Digital Dollar Project is a not for profit effort, in collaboration with Accenture, to advance exploration of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency in order to advance the... read more

13 Jan 20 @ 16:38

A new academic study by GroundAI into online consent management platforms has concluded many of them are ignoring the EU’s GDPR rules. The study was conducted by a consortium of... read more