SoftPOS

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

28 Jan 22 @ 11:43

In the second part of a two-part series on Tap on Mobile, PCM spoke to Tim Dziubek, Director of Payment Products at Discover Global Network, to learn more about Tap... read more

27 Jan 22 @ 12:39

Apple is rumoured to be launching a new SoftPOS service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware. The company has been working... read more

26 Jan 22 @ 09:21

As contactless transactions using cards and digital wallets soar, digital acceptance via mobile, or “Tap on Mobile”, is opening up electronic payments to new merchant categories. PCM investigates the next... read more

25 Jan 22 @ 15:30

In a recent earnings call, JPMorgan Chase, the largest lender on Wall Street with $3.76 trillion (in assets), announced it plans to increase its annual technology budget to $12 billion,... read more

25 Jan 22 @ 12:07

Thanks to the pandemic, consumers have become accustomed to doing almost everything online, accelerating digital transformation and embedding new behaviours. After a 5% in global payment revenues in 2021, the... read more

10 Jan 22 @ 10:53

Small and micro-merchants are switching to electronic payments across Europe – banks and payments companies must consider the specific needs of this segment. As a new year dawns, commentators are... 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

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