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GSMA mobile money report shows half a billion accounts worldwide

02 Mar 17 @ 16:55

The GSMA unveiled its sixth ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’, offering a current snapshot of the mobile money landscape and highlighting the impact of mobile money on... read more

Domestic payment schemes shifting focus to new digital payments services

28 Feb 17 @ 17:06

The development of new payment services and the evolution of technology are currently the top priority of most domestic payment schemes. An overwhelming majority of schemes are in favour of... read more

FinTech financing in Asia-Pacific doubles in 2016 to $11.2 billion

28 Feb 17 @ 14:37

Global investment in FinTech ventures grew 10% in 2016, to $23.2 billion, driven primarily by a wave of blockbuster deals in China, according to Accenture analysis of data from CB Insights,... read more

EMV payment card market struggles for growth as saturation levels hit

28 Feb 17 @ 11:25

Global EMV payment card shipments reached just under 3 billion in 2016, marking a year-on-year (YoY) increase of less than 1%. Between 2012 and 2015. The market became accustomed to annual... read more

Virtual Account Management: the minimum viable proposition

27 Feb 17 @ 14:15

When it comes to corporate liquidity and treasury management, the banks I’m talking to all seem to have one thing in common. The need for speed. Whether they are offering in-house... read more

Regulators enforce new rules – bank executives to vouch for cyber attack defences

27 Feb 17 @ 13:53

Tough rules laid down by New York’s state regulator will see senior executives at some of the world’s biggest banks and insurers vouch for their companies’ resilience to cyber attacks.... read more

Payments processing technology: Have Payment Gateways achieved parity with Processors?

27 Feb 17 @ 12:43

It has been almost 20 years since the internet made a paradigm leap in transaction transport, and made simple payment gateways integration available to an exploding community of web developers.... read more

Why IoT is the fastest growing retail trend of 2017

24 Feb 17 @ 10:45

A recent Gartner survey estimated that by 2020, the number of connected objects will increase by 30 times current levels, making IoT (Internet of Things) a huge untapped opportunity for retailers... read more

İşbank becomes first Turkish bank to offer local alternative payment methods

24 Feb 17 @ 10:35

İşbank, the biggest private bank in Turkey and provider of PSP services, is partnering with PPRO Group to enable İşbank to offer e-commerce merchants 13 local alternative payment methods worldwide. İşbank... read more

The EBA relents on PSD2 authentication, but is it enough?

23 Feb 17 @ 10:13

The European Banking Authority says it will relax its proposed (preposterous) PSD2 rules on a requirement for strong customer authentication for all payments under €10, after receiving a huge number of complaints... read more

SEPA: Is the ECB stifling competition with its latest move?

23 Feb 17 @ 10:01

Ten years ago the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a common vision for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), which they described as an “integrated... read more

Visa Token Service extends mobile payments into 12 European countries

21 Feb 17 @ 10:46

Visa says that, by the end of this year, more than 12 European countries are adopting the Visa Token Service, a new technology that makes mobile and online payments more... 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