Issuing & Acquiring

04 Feb 14 @ 12:41

With over R$690 billion (approximately US$300 billion) in card sales volume in 2012, the Brazilian market is the largest acquiring market in Latin America, and Brazil’s card volume grew at... read more

03 Feb 14 @ 16:56

US payments industry deployment of EMV technology accelerated in 2013 to help combat rising card fraud, but widespread industry adoption of US EMV still faces multiple obstacles. Merchants remain suspect... read more

21 Jan 14 @ 13:51

The recent Target security breach is set to generate a boom in demand for higher security, dual-interface cards, with US EMV adoption and shipments forecast to surge twentyfold from 2013... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 11:57

Elavon has been selected by mobile payments provider iZettle to provide the back-end card payment processing which aids its services to small businesses across countries including the UK and Spain.... read more

28 Nov 13 @ 09:55

V.me by Visa, the first pan-European digital wallet service to be offered by banks and financial institutions, is now live in the UK, France, Spain and Poland. The UK’s Nationwide... read more

14 Nov 13 @ 11:20

PayPal is giving digital start-ups a helping hand by waiving up to $50,000 in payment processing fees for 18 months. PayPal’s Start-up Blueprint Program reduces the costs for start-ups helping... read more

12 Nov 13 @ 07:37

First Data Merchant Solutions, First Data’s direct-to-market merchant acquiring business, and Diners Club International have announced the go-live of their merchant acquiring agreement in the UK. The deal will allow First Data... read more

11 Nov 13 @ 17:47

EVO Payments International and PKO Bank Polski have entered into an agreement to form a long-term strategic alliance in the payment processing and acquiring business. Under the proposed transaction, EVO... read more

28 Oct 13 @ 17:54

Global Payments, one of the world’s largest card processing providers, is rolling out Discover Global Network acceptance to enable its UK customers to take five major international cards. The upgrade,... read more

17 Oct 13 @ 09:33

The Western Union Company together with Lottomatica and MasterCard have launched the My WU reloadable prepaid card in Italy. Lottomatica, the brand through which GTECH S.p.A operates in Italy, is one... read more

10 Sep 13 @ 09:00

Datacard Group has announced that Ecobank Transnational Inc., a financial services provider with operations in over 30 African countries, is enhancing their customer service levels by implementing Datacard financial instant... read more

10 Sep 13 @ 08:50

JCB International (JCBI) and Caixa Economica Federal (CAIXA), the largest public sector bank in Latin America, announce the signing of an agreement for the issuing of JCB cards in Brazil... read more