POS Terminals

30 Apr 19 @ 10:43

The UK’s competition regulator, which had been looking into the merger, has dropped its opposition to PayPal’s $2.2 billion takeover of iZettle, after finding that the enlarged payments group would... read more

29 Apr 19 @ 12:10

Last week it was reported that one of the major US retailers JCPenney stopped support for Apple Pay. Was it dues to low usage in-store? No was the repose, it... read more

29 Apr 19 @ 11:41

Visa and Mastercard have offered to cut interchange fees on payments made by tourists using cards issued outside the European Union to limit fines and end an EU antitrust investigation,... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 16:15

The UK Court of Appeals has overturned a formerly favourable Mastercard interchange fee ruling. The £14 billion lawsuit against Mastercard for imposing charges on UK consumers looks set to proceed... read more

02 Apr 19 @ 15:09

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

01 Apr 19 @ 08:32

FIME is the only testing laboratory in Japan accredited to provide NFC Forum testing and certification services. Japanese card, terminal and mobile device manufacturers can now benefit from local end-to-end... read more

25 Mar 19 @ 16:36

Card payments online are growing at double digit rates and will continue to increase significantly faster than card spending at physical outlets to account for nearly a quarter of all... read more

12 Mar 19 @ 17:13

It is not a new concept for tech companies to open physical stores. Microsoft and Apple were the first major players to do so for their own products, but more... read more

11 Mar 19 @ 15:37

US credit card debt has hit a new record of $870 billion as of December 2018, according to the data from the Federal Reserve. Credit card balances rose by $26... read more

08 Mar 19 @ 09:58

In highlighting just how difficult it will be for society to go completely cashless, this week has seen the UK report on how it cannot allow its cash infrastructure to... 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