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Cash use down 10% as new ways to pay change old order

30 May 13 @ 00:00

Fundamental changes in the UK retail industry as customers embrace new technology and new ways to shop are producing major changes in the relative importance of different payment methods. Customers... read more

Visa, MasterCard take gloves off in Interchange-Fee settlement quarrel

28 May 13 @ 00:00

Visa Inc and MasterCard  sued trade groups and retailers that rejected a $7.25 billion settlement in a price-fixing suit and asked a court to rule that the card companies’ fee practices weren’t... read more

Cautious UK spenders reach two-year low in overlimit cards

28 May 13 @ 00:00

FICO today released its quarterly UK cards data showing that the percentage of cards that are overlimit hit a two-year low. The latest data from the FICO Benchmark Reporting Service showed that... read more

Société Générale Bank & Trust moves core banking systems to Cloud

24 May 13 @ 00:00

Luxembourg private bank Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT), subsidiary of Société Générale Group, has completed the migration of its mission-critical banking systems to a cloud computing architecture. The migration... read more

Top 10 Checks’ Guide to choosing the ideal Payment Service Provider

23 May 13 @ 00:00

According to Anderson Zaks organisations should actively take time out to review their approach to handling the growing number of consumer credit and debit card payments.  In a guide published today,... read more

German banks adopt Step2 for domestic payments

22 May 13 @ 00:00

EBA Clearing reveals seven German banks will use the Step2 payments system to process and clear their domestic payments, converting in the second half of 2013. A group of seven... read more

EU Commission says Visa Europe offers to cut inter-bank fees

14 May 13 @ 00:00

Visa Europe has offered to cap its inter-bank credit card fees at 0.3% of transaction value for four years, the same level as the rival MasterCard  network, to end a... read more

MasterCard to Power Nigerian Identity Card Program

09 May 13 @ 00:00

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and MasterCard have announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment... read more

Branch closures result in customer losses

09 May 13 @ 00:00

Branch closures result in customer losses according to a recent survey by SYNERGISTICS Research entitled, Branches in a Digital Age.  In response to branch closures during the past year, three... read more

China set to overtake the USA as the world’s largest ATM market

09 May 13 @ 00:00

The Chinese ATM market is already huge, but that did not stop it expanding by 76,000 ATMs in 2012 to reach 415,000 – two and a half times its size... read more

UK’s Sainsbury’s Bank selects FIS as retail banking technology partner

08 May 13 @ 00:00

FIS has been selected by Sainsbury’s Bank as the bank’s technology partner for all its retail banking operations. Under the terms of this strategic multi-year arrangement, FIS will provide real-time core... read more

Sainsbury’s in talks to buy Lloyds bank

07 May 13 @ 00:00

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is on the verge of buying out Lloyds Banking Group‘s 50% stake in its financial services arm Sainsbury’s Bank. Sainsbury’s Bank was set up as a joint venture between the... 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