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App commerce set to explode in 2017 to $40 billion

22 Nov 16 @ 09:49

Global mobile commerce is now a huge 34% of all e-commerce transactions worldwide and is predicted to grow 31% in 2017. That’s over 200% faster than the growth of the... read more

2016 FinTech investment landscape – post Brexit shakedown in UK

17 Nov 16 @ 09:54

New figures prepared for Innovate Finance on UK FinTech investment show a 26% drop in funding for British startups, illustrating the Brexit effect. Overall global investment for financial technology increased... read more

Finland launches first real-time mobile payments platform

16 Nov 16 @ 10:37

Automatia says it has launched Finland’s first real-time mobile payments platform based on a multi-banking platform, named Siirto. Tieto has designed and implemented the service. Siirto is an open payment... read more

US Payments Forum launches new mobile and contactless payments effort

15 Nov 16 @ 12:13

Mobile and contactless payments are an area of much debate among stakeholders across the ecosystem. Questions about implementation opportunities and challenges and the uncertain future for how mobile payments will... read more

Citi launch mobile wallet and unveils global API developer hub

11 Nov 16 @ 11:46

Citibank has launched a closed loop mobile wallet dubbed Citi Pay as well as become the latest FI to open up its technology and architecture to third parties through the... read more

PSD2: Opportunities and Risk from the latest regulation – Webinar

08 Nov 16 @ 11:13

PSD2: Opportunities and Risk from the latest regulation – is an important set of webinars organised by PCM including expert knowledge from PSE Consulting and NCR. The Webinars are to... read more

Blockchain: new DNA for financial transactions?

08 Nov 16 @ 10:38

From modernising payment infrastructure and enhancing security, to driving efficiencies and innovation. Whatever the question, Blockchain seems to be the answer nowadays. Announcements from the last month alone are fairly... read more

Millennials waiting for digital payments ‘uber moment’

04 Nov 16 @ 12:30

It is no secret that millennials have been heralded as the generation which holds the key to the success or failure of digital payments innovation, often embracing new solutions en... read more

Understanding the PSD2 regulation – everything you wanted to know

03 Nov 16 @ 14:22

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2 regulation) is set to bring payments in Europe to the next stage of development; it is a data and technology-driven Directive that aims to... read more

Half of global banking customers now using FinTech – World FinTech Report

02 Nov 16 @ 11:41

Half of banking customers across the globe are using the products or services of at least one FinTech firm[1], according to the first World FinTech Report (WFTR) from Capgemini and... read more

Mobiles and money: reinventing financial services for Millennials

01 Nov 16 @ 14:32

There is a very good new report on financial services for millenials from Telstra Global Enterprise Services titled Millennials, Mobiles and Money – The Forces Reinventing Financial Services which makes... read more

National payment switches: navigating the complexity for economic growth

18 Oct 16 @ 18:00

A national payment switch has become a necessity for a cashless or ‘less cash’ society. The advantages of such a switch include boosting financial inclusion, stimulating innovation, competition, growth and... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more

UK Moves to Open iPhone Contactless Payments to Apple Pay Rivals

22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more