Issuing & Acquiring

12 Feb 15 @ 14:46

Whilst the EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) bashing in the US continues to gather pace, US banks, credit card companies and retailers continue to invest heavily in the technology widely used in Europe. EMV... read more

11 Feb 15 @ 12:57

A clear majority of banks believe that they will have to overhaul their core banking infrastructure over the next three to five years if they are to face off the... read more

05 Feb 15 @ 15:16

A new study published by Experian reveals that a third of the UK population (33%) believes credit and debit cards will no longer be the preferred method of payment in 2020,... read more

04 Feb 15 @ 12:09

EMV implementation is under way in the US, but only about half of the 12 million merchant payment terminals will be converted to accept more secure EMV smart credit and... read more

02 Feb 15 @ 16:04

Nearly two million people have registered for Paym, with the potential to link every current account in the country with a phone number, new figures released by the service show. The mobile payments... read more

28 Jan 15 @ 09:25

As the race to win space in your wallet gains further momentum there is a new player in town: Swyp. Everybody, from Apple to Google, has a digital wallet these... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 14:16

Following the release of the final compromise text for the proposed Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (the MIF Regulation) on 19 January 2015, European countries have finally... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 10:00

The Supreme Court handed US banks a victory as it declined to consider a challenge by a group of retailers to Federal Reserve regulations setting fees for processing debit-card transactions,... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:11

The deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa will significantly extend the reach of the South African operator’s services. The card... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:00

Diners Club International, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, and The Logic Group, announced a signed agreement that will grow Discover and... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:54

PayPal has joined forces with Microsoft to bring its PayPal Here hardware card readers to Windows devices, as well as develop EMV-compliant readers. The collaboration is aimed at small and... read more

16 Jan 15 @ 11:07

A lack of payment options are forcing customers to abandon their baskets and merchants to miss out on sales. Online retailers are dramatically losing out on sales by failing to address... read more