Issuing & Acquiring

28 May 19 @ 09:27

Smart Payment Association (SPA), the trade body of the smart payments industry, has published its 2018 annual top smart payment card shipments. Data from SPA members shows the continued year-on-year... read more

28 May 19 @ 09:09

Global Payments has agreed to acquire Total Systems Services (TSYS) for $21.5 billion. The companies announced the deal today. The reports had an immediate effect on the stocks of the... read more

21 May 19 @ 08:26

Contactless payments are on the rise. Across all markets that have reached a critical mass consumers are starting to understand the value of Tap and Go payments. In the UK... read more

21 May 19 @ 08:24

Payvision has celebrated its one-year partnership with ING, one of the largest European banks. During the first year, the ING-Payvision partnership brought forward an exclusive blend of payments and banking... read more

16 May 19 @ 06:45

Two major trends stand out in today’s payments acceptance ecosystem: globalisation and digitisation. We’re all transacting, operating and trading on an increasingly global stage, while new payment types and form... read more

07 May 19 @ 13:59

Facebook is reported to be recruiting dozens of financial firms and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency-based payments system, dubed Project Libra, on the back of its gigantic social... read more

07 May 19 @ 13:10

An article in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Bulletin of December 2018, accurately and comprehensively describes the history of the regulation of payment card surcharging in Australia. The RBA... read more

03 May 19 @ 09:38

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is launching a merchant acquiring service, NatWest Tyl, for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), heading back into the payments business, putting it in direct competition... read more

03 May 19 @ 09:35

According to figures released by the chip card industry standards body, EMV Co, more that 8.2 billion chip cards have been issued globally for use in the payment card industry.... read more

29 Apr 19 @ 12:10

Last week it was reported that one of the major US retailers JCPenney stopped support for Apple Pay. Was it dues to low usage in-store? No was the repose, it... read more

29 Apr 19 @ 11:41

Visa and Mastercard have offered to cut interchange fees on payments made by tourists using cards issued outside the European Union to limit fines and end an EU antitrust investigation,... read more

29 Apr 19 @ 11:17

The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), represented by Saudi Payments, has entered into agreement with Vocalink & IBM to develop the new faster payments system planned for launch at the... read more