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Biometrics: securing a future for contactless cards

04 May 21 @ 09:15

Digital wallets and account-to-account payments are growing fast – but contactless cards are currently Europe’s most popular way to pay, and will remain central to the payments mix. By now,... read more

Adapt or Fail: UK shopping preference is technology over human interaction

25 Mar 21 @ 18:46

K3 Business Technology Group has released new research into the UK’s shopping preference. It revealed that 51% of customers are clear that they want to avoid store assistants. Instead, shoppers... read more

Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks Interview: European Payments in 2021

18 Mar 21 @ 16:47

Amid rising hype about mobile wallets, P2P FinTech challengers and QR-code payments, this year’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks show a card segment in robust health, with business growing strongly.... read more

eftpos plans national QR code payments network in Australia

05 Mar 21 @ 13:09

Australia’s eftpos has released details for a national QR code payments network rollout, which aims to provide Australian consumers and merchants with a data-rich payments experience online, on mobile or... read more

Mastercard launches its first pilot of Cloud POS acceptance technology

11 Jan 21 @ 17:12

Mastercard has partnered with NMI and Global Payments to launch its first live Cloud POS on Phone pilot with Computer Engineering Group (CEG). In Q3 2020, contactless penetration represented 41%... read more

Banks struggle to keep up in race for payments supremacy

07 Dec 20 @ 18:58

A new report states that senior payments executives at banks feel like they are locked in a payments technology arms race. They also worryingly describe themselves as held back by... read more

Gen Z report offers insights on winning over the mobile generation

07 Dec 20 @ 13:20

App Annie has released a report on Generation Z, How to Build a Winning Gen Z Strategy on Mobile, that reveals the mobile habits of this generation to help businesses... read more

The inevitable rise and rise of the digital wallet

09 Nov 20 @ 19:46

Although the digital wallet has existed for over 20 years now, it’s only within the last decade that they have rapidly evolved, revolutionising the way we search and pay for... read more

Payments report: Regional payments revenue growth estimates Asia, LatAm and MEA

04 Nov 20 @ 14:05

Following on from yesterdays post looking at payments revenue growth estimates in Europe and North America, PCM now reviews BCG’s Global Payments 2020 impact of COVID-19, modelling three scenarios for... read more

Payments report: Regional payments revenue growth estimates Europe + North America

03 Nov 20 @ 16:36

In an earlier review of the Global Payments 2020 PCM looked at the impact of COVID-19, modelling three scenarios for payments revenue growth estimates. In the next two posts PCM... read more

Visa Tap to Phone contactless payment platform goes live worldwide

26 Oct 20 @ 16:21

After piloting Visa Tap to Phone over the past year, the company has announced the product availability in more than 15 markets with plans to expand to the US and... read more

Rethinking how to serve SMEs: What do new banking models look like?

22 Oct 20 @ 09:00

A recent webinar hosted by Banking Circle looked at how micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are currently being served when it comes to financial services, and the future of... read more

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Visa and Fiserv partnership extends API-led acceptance platform

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more

Thunes links stablecoin payouts to the Swift banking network

26 Mar 26 @ 19:08

Thunes is attempting to narrow one of the most persistent divides in modern payments: the gap between traditional banking infrastructure and the digital asset e... more

Visa backs Stripe and Tempo

24 Mar 26 @ 17:44

Visa is moving to embed itself in what could become the next important layer of digital commerce: payments initiated not by people, but by software agents actin... more