Issuing & Acquiring

11 Jan 19 @ 12:03

Square has launched its Square In-App Payments SDK (Software Development Kit), enabling developers and sellers to process payments with Square within their consumer-facing mobile apps for the first time. With... read more

08 Jan 19 @ 13:11

The number of merchant outlets accepting card payments worldwide grew by 13% throughout 2017 to reach 69.2 million at the end of the year. The two least developed regions in... read more

08 Jan 19 @ 09:17

Ingenico and Deutscher Sparkassenverlag (DSV), have announced the finalisation of the combination of BS PAYONE, a Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe subsidiary, with Ingenico Retail assets in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) following the approval... read more

08 Jan 19 @ 09:08

Nets and Concardis have confirmed that they have completed the merger originally announced in June 2018. Bo Nilsson will lead the combined group as CEO and Robert Hoffmann will continue as Concardis... read more

07 Jan 19 @ 16:59

Google has announced that it has been granted an e-money licence and authorised as a payment institution in the Republic of Ireland, paving the way for it to begin providing new... read more

18 Dec 18 @ 11:53

In 2017, as the ATM industry celebrated its 50th year, the number of ATMs installed worldwide peaked at 3.28 million with a fall in installations predicted over the next few... read more

07 Dec 18 @ 09:13

Millennium bcp has become the first European bank to issue UnionPay cards in Europe. Chinese President Xi Jinping joined Portugal’s Prime Minster Antonio Costa to witness the signing of an... read more

04 Dec 18 @ 16:46

Visa and Mastercard have offered to cut merchant interchange fees for non-EU credit and debit cards by at least 40% to end an EU antitrust investigation, part of a decades-long... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 16:48

Deep learning is a concept that most people know is valuable but do not understand. Global industries, however, are seeing it’s worth and investing heavily in the technology; the global... read more

26 Nov 18 @ 18:01

2018 has seen the once futuristic biometric smartcard go from talk to trial. From the US to France, Lebanon to Japan, momentum is gathering as the benefits of fingerprint sensors... read more

20 Nov 18 @ 10:00

Over the years, there has been a growing realisation in banking towards innovation as the proven path to differentiation and competitiveness. While the transformation has been slow, over the last... read more

19 Nov 18 @ 16:26

FinTech M&A is at record levels. The competition is fierce as incumbents battle to stay ahead of the curve as the financial services sector is undergoes a technology-driven metamorphosis. Highly-publicised... read more