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Digital payments to lead 162% growth in e-commerce spend across Southeast Asia

03 Nov 21 @ 11:26

Southeast Asia is experiencing a financial transformation driven by digital payments, powered by changing consumer and retail trends and more inclusive payment options. E-commerce spending will rise by 162% to... read more

The European Payments Landscape in 2030: Implants, AI and the no-cash generation

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

Merchant acquiring: The $100 billion opportunity in small business

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

PCM Feature: Is there too much investment in payments?

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

Banks must urgently embrace next generation payments

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

EBA CLEARING, SWIFT and TCH team to pilot fast cross-border payments

12 Oct 21 @ 13:58

Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged payment messages for a faster cross-border payments as part of a proof of concept demonstrating the feasibility of synchronising settlement... read more

World Payments Report: Non-cash transaction growth hit hard by COVID

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

Singapore’s MAS takes a lead in foreign faster payment links

29 Sep 21 @ 16:07

Singapore is taking a leading position in the fast growing Faster Payments space, inking two deals with influential neighbours in the space of two weeks. First, the Reserve Bank of... read more

Four markets predicted to succeed in the evolving payments landscape

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

Are Europeans really ready for Instant Payments?

20 Sep 21 @ 16:56

Another day, another headline telling us account-to-account and “faster” or instant payments are taking over across Europe. In March this year, Swedish account-to-account specialist Trustly said its payments volumes were... read more

Instant payments transactions to exceed $27 trillion globally by 2026

07 Sep 21 @ 07:23

A new study has found the transaction value of instant payments will exceed $27.7 trillion in 2026, from just $4.8 trillion in 2021. The research identified that this extraordinary growth... read more

Going digital: India leads real-time payments globally

06 Sep 21 @ 19:55

Across the world, digital payments are now synonymous with mobile payments, with the rate of adoption directly linked to access to smartphones and telecoms networks. The furious growth in digital... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more