Issuing & Acquiring

02 Apr 19 @ 15:09

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

25 Mar 19 @ 16:36

Card payments online are growing at double digit rates and will continue to increase significantly faster than card spending at physical outlets to account for nearly a quarter of all... read more

21 Mar 19 @ 16:50

A new report has found that the annual value of virtual cards (temporary card numbers only available for a single transaction or limited time) used by businesses will grow 90% over... read more

18 Mar 19 @ 12:22

FIS has announced that it has offered $43 billion to buy Worldpay, in a deal that would create one of the largest providers of payments infrastructure that powers banks and... read more

14 Mar 19 @ 12:45

That banks are struggling with complexity and how to manage competing priorities is nothing new. However, the growth of mobile and now IoT payments means that banks need a back-end... read more

11 Mar 19 @ 15:37

US credit card debt has hit a new record of $870 billion as of December 2018, according to the data from the Federal Reserve. Credit card balances rose by $26... read more

08 Mar 19 @ 09:58

In highlighting just how difficult it will be for society to go completely cashless, this week has seen the UK report on how it cannot allow its cash infrastructure to... read more

06 Mar 19 @ 14:25

Under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”), an Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (“ASPSP”) must grant a Third Party Providers (“TPP”) direct access to certain payment accounts of the... read more

05 Mar 19 @ 10:49

Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, has announces a new card acceptance partnership with UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay. The deal... read more

04 Mar 19 @ 12:42

Driven by contactless card payments and by increased card usage, in 2017 the number of card payments continued to grow across the 33 countries covered by our PCM’s Payment Card... read more

25 Feb 19 @ 17:13

In December 2018 on the earnings call for Apple, analysts were given several incremental data points on the usage of Apple Pay. It may seem like an insignificant piece of... read more

25 Feb 19 @ 14:20

The U.S. Spending Snapshot shows growth in consumer spending via electronic payments like credit cards, debit cards and mobile wallets more than doubled year-over-year from the third quarter (Q3) 2017... read more