Issuing & Acquiring

03 Feb 20 @ 18:35

Soaring stock prices are propelling Visa and Mastercard up the market value charts, where they currently rank 7th and 11th among companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index. The stock... read more

03 Feb 20 @ 16:43

Sberbank has analysed cashless payments in Russia under the SberData project, its big data analytics and processing initiative. For the first time ever, over a half of products and services... read more

03 Feb 20 @ 11:03

Worldline has this morning announced it agreed a deal to buy local rival Ingenico in a €7.8 billion deal that will create a global player in the rapidly consolidating payments... read more

28 Jan 20 @ 16:30

New analysis has found a growing appetite for point of sale credit finance – otherwise known as ‘buy now, pay later’ –  among younger UK consumers, with over 60% (67%)... read more

27 Jan 20 @ 09:05

According to Reuters, about 70 lawmakers from the ruling party feel a digital yen is needed to counter the approaching launches of Libra and China’s own digital currency. The effort... read more

17 Jan 20 @ 10:05

The Digital Dollar Project is a not for profit effort, in collaboration with Accenture, to advance exploration of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency in order to advance the... read more

14 Jan 20 @ 13:33

The global smart card market is expected to exceed $65 billion by 2025. The rise in privacy and data security concerns in financial transactions will drive the industry growth over... read more

09 Jan 20 @ 20:22

The People’s Bank of China, it’s central bank says it has accepted an application from a unit of American Express regarding starting operations in China – clearing a major hurdle... read more

07 Jan 20 @ 13:39

Developments in technology leading to contactless payment cards have led to several trends in the past years. POS payments grew stronger while cash withdrawals at ATM by card declined; card... read more

07 Jan 20 @ 12:45

Payment fraud prevention is an increasingly complicated and constantly evolving business. Issuers and merchants everywhere are being challenged by a growing variety of payment methods, which are fuelling the rise... read more

06 Jan 20 @ 17:08

A new report projects that establishing financial identities for the world’s financially excluded – or “unbanked” – population would add an extra $250 billion to global gross domestic product (GDP),... read more

20 Dec 19 @ 10:00

A truly agile organisation in 2020 and beyond will be a sum of various self-learning, self-healing, and self-evolving parts, each of which works in tandem with the other through suitable... read more