M-Commerce

25 Feb 21 @ 17:49

Global payments preferences for consumers vary considerably around the world, reflecting an infinite diversity of historical, technical, cultural, economic and regulatory factors. Alternative payment methods like digital wallets and bank... read more

24 Feb 21 @ 17:55

Despite growing calls for regulation and some demographics turning their back on credit, Buy now, pay later (BNPL) schemes were the fastest-growing online payment method in the UK last year,... read more

24 Feb 21 @ 17:33

Intuit, a US business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software is reported to be suing Mastercard and Visa for fixing interchange fees... read more

23 Feb 21 @ 17:17

Open Banking, which allows third-party providers to access the financial information of banking customers through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), was launched with the aim of providing customers with more tailored... read more

12 Feb 21 @ 09:54

The normally robust card payments markets of France and Belgium are showing the effects of COVID. Monthly card volumes from STET are showing a distinctly difficult start to 2021 for... read more

11 Feb 21 @ 17:19

Outside of the Nordics, BLIK, the Polish mobile payments super app is perhaps the next best performing digital payments “standard” at a domestic level. In Q4 2020, BLIK users in... read more

09 Feb 21 @ 14:42

The Japanese payments market has long been something of a paradox between technological capabilities and the uptake of those technologies – cashless payments are the same. On the one hand,... read more

08 Feb 21 @ 16:10

PayPal has been driven by market forces to close down its payment operations in India. Instead, it will scale up its existing cross-border business for small enterprises, to gain a... read more

08 Feb 21 @ 15:02

E-commerce in Germany was worth €83.3 billion in 2020. This is an increase of 14.6% compared to 2019. The growth is significant, as the average growth over the previous three... read more

02 Feb 21 @ 15:50

A new study has found that biometrics will authenticate over $3 trillion of payment transactions in 2025, from just $404 billion in 2020. The report found that biometrics, including fingerprint,... read more

25 Jan 21 @ 11:20

Mastercard has announced that it will raise interchange fees by about five times the current limit when a UK card holder uses a debit or credit card to buy from... read more

22 Jan 21 @ 13:28

App Annie has released The State of Mobile 2021 report. This annual appraisal provides insight into mobile’s expansive impact across industries and the global economy. 2020 accelerated mobile adoption as... read more