POS Terminals

16 Dec 21 @ 16:15

As reported in Payments Cards & Mobile, Amazon announced in November that it would stop taking payments from Visa credit cards issued in the UK, because of sky-high fees. Interchange... read more

15 Dec 21 @ 09:15

JCB International and Planet have announced the expansion of their European partnership. This new deal ensures Planet will perform as a JCB acquirer across European territories for both face-to-face and... read more

09 Dec 21 @ 11:04

Hong Kong is heading towards being cashless as paper money and coins account for no more than 1.6% of POS transactions by 2024, the lowest in the Asia-Pacific region, and... read more

08 Dec 21 @ 09:26

In their 2021 Global Payments Report, McKinsey and Company identify[1] an $100 billion opportunity to provide small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with new payments services. By offering value-added services to... read more

08 Dec 21 @ 09:01

Eurobank, one of the four largest lenders in Greece, has announced it entered into a binding agreement to sell 80% of its merchant acquiring business to Worldline in an attempt to... read more

02 Dec 21 @ 10:35

Of the many payment innovations to surface in the past 20 years, the QR code is enjoying a resurgence, having once been viewed as a failed marketing gimmick that became... read more

01 Dec 21 @ 09:25

As in many other areas of life, COVID-19 has accelerated changes evident in merchant acquiring over the last five years. These changes go beyond the obvious, such as the shift... read more

30 Nov 21 @ 16:02

The PSD2 enables more convenient, secure, faster and more affordable account-to-account payments in e-commerce and at the checkout in shops. One of the two new API-based PSD2 services, the Payment... read more

29 Nov 21 @ 18:09

The recent news that a US acquirer had raised concerns about PAX terminal security led a number of Merchant Service Providers’ (MSPs) to ask questions about their approach to next-generation... read more

29 Nov 21 @ 10:07

As we fast approach the peak Christmas period many experts are predicting that the global supply chain crisis is likely to get worse before it gets better. They point to... read more

24 Nov 21 @ 16:47

As of January 2021, the United Kingdom broke away from its long standing relationship with its closet neighbour and is therefore no longer part of the EEA. As a result,... read more

23 Nov 21 @ 14:09

UnionPay, the card scheme with the world’s largest cardholder base, has announced that it has signed a new market development agreement for the Nordics with Nets. The agreement will enable... read more