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21 May 19 @ 08:26

Contactless payments are on the rise. Across all markets that have reached a critical mass consumers are starting to understand the value of Tap and Go payments. In the UK... read more

21 May 19 @ 08:25

SWIFT says that a group of banks are to trial instant gpi cross-border payments in Europe using the TARGET Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS) platform. The European Central Bank (ECB) and... read more

21 May 19 @ 08:24

Payvision has celebrated its one-year partnership with ING, one of the largest European banks. During the first year, the ING-Payvision partnership brought forward an exclusive blend of payments and banking... read more

20 May 19 @ 17:04

The EU, US, Japan and China are among 76 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that launched negotiations to set future rules and obligations in e-commerce in January at... read more

20 May 19 @ 16:48

Alipay, the mobile payments arm of Alibaba Group has signed up more than 300,000 retailers in Japan to its m-payments service to serve the growing number of Chinese tourists to... read more

16 May 19 @ 07:27

Europeans are increasingly using smartphones and other forms of mobile technology to do their banking Consumers are highly conscious of security when they manage their money using devices, and there... read more

16 May 19 @ 06:45

Two major trends stand out in today’s payments acceptance ecosystem: globalisation and digitisation. We’re all transacting, operating and trading on an increasingly global stage, while new payment types and form... read more

15 May 19 @ 11:35

While consumers expect their banks to ensure that the latest banking technology is available, their rate of adoption does not necessarily meet the rate of innovation. Nearly a third (30%)... read more

15 May 19 @ 08:32

San Francisco has voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first US city to do so. The ban means its local police, transport and other agencies will not... read more

14 May 19 @ 15:29

The EU’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) regulation has been looming on the horizon since November 2015. The regulation sets out that all online transactions over the value of €30... read more

14 May 19 @ 11:40

As well as a raft of other high profile thefts of cryptocurrencies in the last few years, hackers recently stole $40 million worth of bitcoin from Binance, one of the... read more

13 May 19 @ 08:19

Visa announced it has finally acquired control of Earthport, a company that provides cross-border payment services to banks, money transfer service providers and businesses via the world’s largest independent ACH... read more