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Card payments worldwide set to increase 55% to 417 billion

08 Sep 16 @ 16:47

According to Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, the total number of card payments worldwide increased by 15% in 2015 to 270 billion, almost double the 8% rise... read more

JCB to offer Apple Pay in Japan

08 Sep 16 @ 16:25

JCB announced that Apple Pay will launch in Japan in October to make mobile payments with iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2. JCB has been a... read more

What are the options for retail banks to prepare for their future?

07 Sep 16 @ 13:44

Disruption, innovation, Uberisation, disintermediation, Fintechisation, regulation… all of these words are nowadays perceived as challenges for the retail banks and their business. Media and experts are fond of predicting that... read more

Masterpass gathers momentum in Europe – breakthrough year for digital payment service

07 Sep 16 @ 13:00

As the share of digital payments in Europe keeps on growing to reach 38% of payments by 2020, the continued transformation of Mastercard is driven by the rapid growth and... read more

Digital Payments in India – the making of a $500 billion ecosystem

07 Sep 16 @ 11:58

Over the past few years, the payment landscape in India has mirrored developments occurring in the global payments arena, albeit with a time lag. Although digital payments in India is... read more

Mobile payments study – opportunities for banks

06 Sep 16 @ 11:37

First Annapolis recently completed the third edition of its semi-annual Study of Mobile Banking & Payments tracking consumer adoption and use of mobile banking and payments products. Given the energy... read more

Ingenico shares suffers after cutting 2016 sales forecast

06 Sep 16 @ 10:32

Underscoring investor skittishness and low tolerance for earnings disappointments, French payments firm Ingenico Group fell nearly 13% in heavy volumes, after the cutting its full-year targets in the wake of... read more

10 facts about e-commerce and cart abandonment

06 Sep 16 @ 10:20

The problem for most online e-commerce stores is that cart abandonment is on the rise. The data has shown a continuing upward trend, with a near 15% rise in online... read more

Google rumoured to start Android Pay service in Japan

05 Sep 16 @ 14:58

Google is rumoured to start the Android Pay, digital payment service, using smartphones in Japan as early as autumn, in cooperation with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, sources close to the... read more

Apple Pay could lose leverage in US from Australian bank fall out

05 Sep 16 @ 12:38

There has been much written about the Australian banks pushing Apple Pay to loosen its grip on the technology that enables mobile payments. The result could bode well for US... read more

Chat Bots – Have you got a bot for that?

02 Sep 16 @ 14:47

The move from apps to bots has been hailed as the new paradigm shift and the next big technological disruption. Messenger platforms and chat bots are being seen as the... read more

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Wero expands into Austria as Europe’s payments ambitions gather momentum

23 Jun 26 @ 18:52

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more

UK fraud losses reach four-year high

16 Jun 26 @ 18:17

Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more

Visa and Mastercard move to end two-decade swipe fee battle

11 Jun 26 @ 16:00

A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more