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Contactless is the future

02 Mar 16 @ 12:23

As reported earlier this year, Vodafone has become the first operator in the world to offer its customers the opportunity to make contactless PayPal payments using a smartphone. It is... read more

Android Pay to hit UK in March

01 Mar 16 @ 12:40

Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service, is set to launch in the UK in March. Android Pay, which was launched in September, lets consumers pay at store checkout counters by waving their Android... read more

TSYS deal for card issuers and merchants to combat fraud

01 Mar 16 @ 12:29

TSYS announced an agreement with Ethoca, a provider of collaboration-based technology that enables card issuers and e-commerce merchants to stop card-not-present fraud, recover lost revenue and eliminate chargebacks. Launched through... read more

MasterCard on exploding contactless payments and tokenisations

29 Feb 16 @ 13:43

PCM interviews Chris Kangas on how MasterCard technology platform is being used to support the exploding contactless market and innovations like tokenisation of payment card credentials on the MasterCard platform... read more

130 million active mobile money users recorded globally in 2015

29 Feb 16 @ 12:02

The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the... read more

Financial Stability Board to put FinTech under the lens

29 Feb 16 @ 11:03

Innovations in FinTech have been added to the list of things the Financial Stability Board worries about by Mark Carney, head of the international group of policymakers and regulators. The governor... read more

ATM Market expected to reach $21.9 billion by 2020

29 Feb 16 @ 10:27

According to new report by Allied Market Research titled “Global ATM Market – Size, Industry Analysis, Trends, Opportunities, Growth and Forecast, 2013-2020,” the global ATM market will reach $21.9 billion... read more

Banks should sell their stake in UK payments infrastructure

29 Feb 16 @ 09:28

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published the provisional findings of its market review into the ownership and competitiveness of the payments infrastructure that supports the payments systems; Bacs, Faster... read more

Card payments in Asia-Pacific set to double to $19.5 trillion by 2020

26 Feb 16 @ 13:24

The value of card payments in Asia-Pacific grew by 25% in 2014 to reach $9.0 trillion, accounting for just under half of the global total card expenditure. The level of... read more

2015 Breach Level Index

26 Feb 16 @ 13:13

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 1,673 data breaches led to 707 million data records being compromised worldwide during 2015. The Breach Level Index... read more

The future of carrier billing in Europe

26 Feb 16 @ 12:53

DIMOCO presented a brand new publication at the Mobile World Congress 2016. “The future of carrier billing in Europe” shows trends on the digital content and the carrier billing market.... read more

Live @ MWC: Homesend platform extends reach

25 Feb 16 @ 11:52

PCM interviews Stephen Doyle, CEO of Homesend to discuss what going on in the remittance market.

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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