Mobile payments

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

07 Mar 19 @ 09:47

For anyone attending Mobile World Congress last week, they have no doubt gone to bed dreaming of 5G networks and foldable smartphones. But dig a little deeper, and there was... read more

06 Mar 19 @ 10:37

The SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) service, a new service that creates secure interoperability between existing mobile P2P payments services has launched. The SPL service is ready to be used, and... 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

04 Mar 19 @ 11:46

Today more than ever, people are living a digital and mobile life, and they expect their ability to pay to match that same “always on” mindset, according to social media... read more

01 Mar 19 @ 11:35

Now processing over $1.3 billion a day, the mobile money industry added a record 143 million registered customers in 2018 – according to the GSMA’s annual State of the Industry... read more

27 Feb 19 @ 21:22

Forecasts predict that by 2022, just 17% of global payments will be made by cash. Meanwhile, digital and mobile wallet usage will continue to rise, accounting for 28% of all... 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 @ 14:33

Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal has gone on record with CNBC and said that the digital payments industry may become a $100 trillion market as the financial technology sector... read more

19 Feb 19 @ 07:52

As a leading payments market, credit and debit card payments account for the vast majority of the UK’s online purchases, particularly with the introduction of contactless. However, this doesn’t ring... read more

14 Feb 19 @ 21:28

Ant Financial has finally managed to make its mark in a significant European first. The Chinese financial services giant has agreed to buy UK payments group WorldFirst in a deal... read more