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Nearly half of the finance industry have adopted Open Banking

18 Nov 22 @ 12:57

Nearly half (43%) of all large financial institutions have already adopted Open Banking according to a new report from API-driven identity management company Curity. The Facilitating the Future of Open... read more

Has SCA made it too hard to pay by card?

17 Oct 22 @ 16:04

As implementation of the EU’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) moves from a “soft” to “hard” state – that is, with liability transferring to those merchants that don’t employ SCA –... read more

Feature: R2P – A view of what could be…

23 Aug 22 @ 15:31

Request to Pay (R2P) is a hot industry buzzword. While still in its infancy, Request to Pay promises greater control and faster settlement for consumers and businesses alike. Payments Cards... read more

Why the two most common approaches to PSD2 compliance don’t work

28 Jun 22 @ 16:27

It’s been two months since PSD2 enforcement started in the UK, and we have taken a look at data from merchants to see what patterns are emerging and what we... read more

Open Banking is a massive opportunity for marketplaces

08 Jun 22 @ 18:58

Online marketplaces may be the greatest business success story of the last twenty years. Perhaps the most well known are Amazon – revenue $477 billion last year, up 14% –... read more

One year on from enforcement – has PSD2 reduced fraud?

25 Apr 22 @ 13:08

It’s been a year since every merchant across France, Germany, Italy and Spain — the EEA’s largest digital commerce markets — started complying with PSD2, but has enforcement reduced fraud... read more

Open Banking: The changing rules on 90 day re-authentication

17 Mar 22 @ 17:10

Open Banking got started back in 2018 thanks to ground-breaking regulations (PSD2), that gave consumers the right to access their bank account data using third parties called account information services providers... read more

Digital ID infrastructure is key as payments become transparent

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

Digital & Card Payment Yearbooks: Cards – past their peak?

04 Feb 22 @ 16:12

The 2021-2022 Digital and Card Payment Yearbooks from Payments Cards & Mobile suggest payment card use may be starting to decline, to be replaced by digital wallets, direct-to-account payments and... read more

SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) – developing a new scheme

02 Feb 22 @ 10:25

At its 24 November 2021 meeting, the EPC Board accepted the Euro Retail Payments Board’s (ERP) invitation to act as Scheme Manager for a new SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA)... read more

UK Open Banking marks fourth year milestone with over 4 million users

13 Jan 22 @ 09:19

January 13th marks the fourth anniversary of the Payments Services Directive 2 (PSD2) * making Open Banking a regulatory requirement in the UK. Open Banking (OB) was mandated by the... read more

Lithuania – how regulatory innovation created a nascent FinTech superhub

03 Dec 21 @ 08:47

With a tiny population of just under 3 million, few could have predicted Lithuania would become a hotbed of FinTech innovation. Since the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, however,... read more

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$5 trillion milestone masks an uneven global e-commerce market

09 Jan 26 @ 10:32

In 2026, global e-commerce passes a symbolic and economic landmark, exceeding $5 trillion in annual sales for the first time. The headline figure confirms the ... more

Visa brings stablecoin settlement into the US Mainstream

17 Dec 25 @ 13:28

Visa has taken a decisive step towards embedding stablecoins into core financial infrastructure, launching US-based settlement in Circle’s USDC for participat... more

Barclays makes first strategic move into stablecoin infrastructure

07 Jan 26 @ 15:24

Barclays has taken its first direct step into the stablecoin ecosystem, investing in US-based clearing and settlement platform Ubyx. [caption id="attachmen... more