E-Money

22 Oct 19 @ 20:00

European and global card-based payment solution providers are coming together to strengthen the voice of the industry and to form a new association: Payments Europe. The new body represents card... read more

13 Oct 19 @ 13:23

Mastercard, Visa, Stripe and eBay have all followed PayPal by pulling out of Libra, Facebook’s digital currency, following sustained political pressure and just days before the project’s backers are due... read more

11 Oct 19 @ 09:51

In 2019, Europe’s Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) dominated the conversation around payment regulation. However, there are a number of countries with parallel regulations already in place or in plan.... read more

03 Oct 19 @ 15:36

Finablr and Samsung have introduced the Money Transfer feature in Samsung Pay. This new in-app international money transfer service, a first of its kind in the US, offers users seamless... read more

03 Oct 19 @ 14:55

First it was a group of influential banks, then it was the EU regulator, now, Visa, Mastercard and other key financial partners are reconsidering their involvement in Libra Coin, Facebook’s... read more

02 Oct 19 @ 10:05

In an unusual trend for a developed market, the number of credit card transactions in Canada has exceeded the number of debit purchase transactions for the first time since 1997,... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 15:03

Our first blog in this series looked at Strong Customer Authentication, and provided the Maxa answer to this challenge. In this blog, we chart the rapid growth of contactless payments... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 11:43

Online marketplaces could be worth as much as $7 trillion in sales by 2024 should organisations capitalise on the full potential of the marketplace trend, according to analysis by iBe.... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 07:57

PayPal has beaten off competition for payments giants Visa and Mastercard to become the first foreign company to acquire a payments licence in China. PayPal obtained the license through the... read more

25 Sep 19 @ 09:56

In most countries, cash payments’ share of total payments volume is declining. However, cash in circulation (CIC) remains stable or up slightly over the past five years. Cash has been... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 08:34

Ant Financial is the world’s most valuable private FinTech company, and grew out of Alipay, the payments system founded by Alibaba in 2004. It also owns Yu’e Bao, the world’s... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 08:19

Based on a global survey of senior executives at the world’s top-tier banks, a new report from Aite, reveals that high costs, low margins and increasingly commoditised business models are... read more