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Fiserv patent battle with FIS dismissed by US court

08 Dec 15 @ 12:30

“Fiserv is betting big,” said Nancy Atkinson, a senior analyst at Aite Group back in 2012. “Fiserv is trying to exert dominance over FIS. These two companies are huge rivals.”... read more

Payment Business School announce the roll-out of a series of retail and mobile payments training courses

08 Dec 15 @ 12:21

Digital payments experts Consult Hyperion have partnered with the Payment Business School, specialists in payment education, to roll-out a series of in-depth training courses in 2016 on a range of... read more

Worldwide smartphone market

07 Dec 15 @ 15:05

According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 2015 will be the first full year of single-digit worldwide smartphone growth. IDC... read more

ING activates contactless mobile payments

07 Dec 15 @ 14:30

ING has added contactless mobile payments to its mobile banking app for Android smartphones, rolling out the service to all Dutch customers nationwide following a three-month trial run. The HCE-based... read more

US proximity mobile payments hit $8.71 billion in 2015

04 Dec 15 @ 17:16

Proximity mobile payments in the US are set to ramp up aggressively. Transaction value will triple in 2016 due to a growing user base, broader merchant acceptance and the greater... read more

Electronic payments grow faster than GDP across all regions

26 Nov 15 @ 16:32

Electronic payments volumes are expected to continue to grow strongly in 2014, according to the World Payments Report 2015 from Capgemini/Royal Bank of Scotland. Volumes are projected to grow at... read more

Alternative payment to tackle card payments head on

25 Nov 15 @ 13:48

In  a new report from Worldpay it is predicted that the alternative payment market will leave its growing pains behind in 2016. 2016 will herald “the third age of digital payments” now that... read more

Fintech companies most worried about regulatory impact

20 Nov 15 @ 11:56

A survey conducted by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) among fintech startups and investors in the industry has revealed that the biggest challenge they see for the near future are regulatory hurdles, the... read more

MasterCard develops tech spec for mobile loyalty

20 Nov 15 @ 11:43

MasterCard is to develop a standard technical specification to simplify the integration of retailer mobile loyalty programmes with bank-issued mobile payments apps. While online redemption of offers is commonplace for consumers,... read more

LG Pay arrives

19 Nov 15 @ 17:09

LG officially announced that it will soon enter the mobile payments market with LG Pay. The Korean company said on Facebook that it has deals with two major credit card... read more

Norway’s Valyou mobile payments service wraps up

19 Nov 15 @ 11:27

In what will be perceived in the industry as another failure by the combined forces of the telecommunications industry (after Simpay and Weve) Norwegian mobile payments service Valyou has been... read more

The State of FinTech in 2015

19 Nov 15 @ 11:01

The term FinTech has come to dominate the headlines of all industry magazines but also the mainstream press. London in particular has made enormous strides in the last year or... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more