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Banking Circle is already processing 6% of European B2C e-commerce payments

05 May 21 @ 09:00

Banking Circle has reported a significant uplift in payments flow and clients a year after it launched its Banking Licence. At the end of February 2020, Banking Circle received its... read more

Digital Dollar Foundation announces 5 pilots of US CBDC

04 May 21 @ 12:18

The Digital Dollar Project, a non-profit organisation, has announced it will launch five pilot programs over the next 12 months to test the potential uses of a US central bank... read more

The coming crisis in KYC and KYB explained

04 May 21 @ 09:35

A wide range of factors are converging to make Know Your Business (KYB) a major pain point for financial institutions (FIs) in the years ahead. Banks and other FIs must... read more

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

Payoneer replaces PayPal in latest agreement with eBay

04 May 21 @ 09:00

As eBay further distances itself from its PayPal relationship and looks to consolidate its payments inhouse, the e-commerce monster has signed a new deal with Payoneer. Payoneer says it is... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

03 May 21 @ 05:00

Can you actually believe April is over? 2021 is not messing around. The weeks and months are flying by, and that means that brighter times are coming! (Quite literally, summer... read more

European Payments Council requests proposal for real-time fraud platform

30 Apr 21 @ 12:23

As part of its strategy for addressing fraud risks in the context of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment schemes the European Payments Council (EPC), has elected to develop... read more

The future of the internet, e-commerce and payments

30 Apr 21 @ 11:06

The internet has changed the shape of how we live our modern lives and is an incredible thing, and something that continues to develop and improve year on year. But... read more

Singapore and Thailand integrate real-time payments services

29 Apr 21 @ 16:22

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) have announced that they will integrate their individual countries real-time payments rails to facilitate faster cross-border transfers. The... read more

Chinese e-commerce market worth $3 trillion by 2024

29 Apr 21 @ 16:03

The Chinese e-commerce market is predicted to grow at a strong compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.4% from CNY13.8 trillion ($2.1 trillion) in 2021 to CNY19.6 trillion ($3.0 trillion)... read more

The World Retail Banking Report 2021

28 Apr 21 @ 16:18

What will the post-pandemic world look like for retail banks? With low interest rates, closed branches, increased risk of SME bankruptcies, consumer delinquencies, and eroding market share, traditional banks are... read more

After the pandemic: The top 5 European e-commerce markets driving growth

28 Apr 21 @ 15:49

While most of the world can’t travel across borders just yet, we can certainly shop across them. Data shows that almost 24% of e-commerce purchases in Europe are international. As... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more