Mobile payments

21 Mar 22 @ 15:00

Merchants experienced more fraud in 2021 than 2020, with new types of fraud affecting 62% of merchants. Online payment fraud continues to be the biggest threat with 20% more businesses... read more

18 Mar 22 @ 10:20

The 2021 State of Finance study from App Annie reveals just how fast the world of personal finance is going digital. Within this revolution, buy-now-pay-later and cryptocurrency services are growing... read more

15 Mar 22 @ 12:44

A new report by card industry body Payments Europe claims Europeans would welcome government intervention to mandate electronic payment. The report also says that, while instant, or account-to-account, payments are... read more

11 Mar 22 @ 10:49

The GSMA have produced the Mobile Money Regulatory Index (MMRI), a unique tool for the assessment of the effectiveness of mobile money regulatory frameworks. Mobile money provides arguably the most economically viable... read more

09 Mar 22 @ 10:41

The global transformation of banking and payments has only accelerated over the past few years, and between web trends and a global pandemic, the industry has seen disruption from all... read more

07 Mar 22 @ 10:45

Vodafone, and its African subsidiaries Vodacom and Safaricom, are today, marking the 15th anniversary of M-Pesa, the service launched in March 2007 to enable money transfers between people using 2G... read more

03 Mar 22 @ 12:42

According to European regulators, rapid action is needed to update how cross-border digital finance services are scrutinised within the region and consumers are protected as the sector becomes digitalised with... read more

02 Mar 22 @ 12:26

The mobile wallet industry has seen significant advances in the last decade, changing the way people manage and spend their money, and the tasks that these wallets can perform have... read more

28 Feb 22 @ 10:51

More than 80% of Americans used some form of digital payments in 2021, continuing a long-standing trend. The findings of McKinsey’s 2021 Digital Payments Consumer Survey – an ongoing research... read more

08 Feb 22 @ 12:25

New data on card payments and in-app card mobile payments in 2021 have been released by Nets. In the Nordics – a region renowned for being a digital payments pioneer... read more

08 Feb 22 @ 10:49

Remote and contactless payments popularity with consumers grew during the pandemic, which is prompting the need for a robust digital identity infrastructure in the Payments 4.X era.1 In the connected... read more

07 Feb 22 @ 15:00

In 2019, mobile wallets overtook credit cards to become the most widely used payment type globally. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic became another accelerant of the continued digitization of the... read more