19 Apr 23 @ 08:34
Worldline and Crédit Agricole have announced the signing of a non-binding exclusive agreement regarding a strategic partnership to create a major player in the French merchant services payment market. The... read more
19 Apr 23 @ 08:00
Aevi has successfully launched its first pilot merchant on the TSYS processing platform in collaboration with Vivid Payments. With its expertise in streamlining checkout processes and providing access to transaction... read more
18 Apr 23 @ 16:17
E-commerce card purchases continue to gain momentum as pandemic-driven habits remain popular and e-commerce card payments have become increasingly convenient, secure and widely available. The Global Payment Cards Data and... read more
18 Apr 23 @ 12:12
Apple and Goldman Sachs launched a new savings account yielding 4.15% a year, having first announced the product in October, the interest rate is more than 10 times the national... read more
18 Apr 23 @ 10:52
Back in 2019, I wrote a piece for Wired predicting that in time robots will take over in banking just as they have done in manufacturing. I said that going to the... read more
17 Apr 23 @ 16:05
The European Banking Federation, the European Association of Co-operative Banks, and the European Savings and Retail Banking Group, jointly known as the European Credit Sector Associations (ECSAs) welcome the ambitions... read more
17 Apr 23 @ 09:58
RS2 says that Iceland’s most innovative bank, Landsbankinn, has launched its own merchant acquiring services using RS2’s payments processing platform. Landsbankinn business customers can now concentrate all their payment services... read more
17 Apr 23 @ 09:46
The fintech industry is constantly evolving, with new technologies and solutions emerging all the time. Decision-makers are searching to understand how the market is changing. Collaboration is essential for developing... read more
14 Apr 23 @ 13:16
Think about banking, and you might think Tom Cruise or Michael Douglas in Wall Street – or, more recent movies like The Big Short. Either way, your mental image will... read more
14 Apr 23 @ 13:09
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a suit against Chargebacks911 for unfairly thwarting consumers who were trying to dispute credit card charges through the chargeback process. In a complaint filed in... read more
14 Apr 23 @ 09:45
From Meta’s self-imposed “year of efficiency” decimating its global workforce to Yahoo, Zoom, Amazon and Google reducing their employee numbers, and fintech and crypto startups and scale-ups taking stock, 2023... read more
12 Apr 23 @ 17:48
In a white paper launched today, leading global payments company Visa sets out its vision for delivering a frictionless checkout experience and greater security in online shopping. By combining existing security... read more
12 Apr 23 @ 17:00
PayPal and Visa announced a strategic partnership in the US that will result in an improved and more seamless payment experience for Visa cardholders and offer greater choice in how... read more
06 Apr 23 @ 12:29
ChatGPT is currently on everyone’s lips. The versatile abilities of this chatbot fire the imagination, but also fuel concerns about the future application of such a simple and widely usable... read more
06 Apr 23 @ 10:20
Genesis Market has been closed down in a massive, coordinated global law enforcement crackdown. Genesis Market was one of the world’s biggest criminal marketplaces used by online fraudsters to buy... read more
06 Apr 23 @ 09:57
JCB International says that merchants in multiple European markets will be able to accept JCB Cards, both at the physical point of sale and for e-commerce transactions with participating merchant... read more
04 Apr 23 @ 16:35
Mobile commerce is set to comprise 70% of online transaction value by 2025 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Mobile remittance services have grown to encompass more value-added... read more
04 Apr 23 @ 09:54
In mid March UK Finance and EY held a joint event on the future of UK payments – The PayTech Strategy Day. Hosted by EY, the event brought together industry... read more
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
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
22 Oct 26 @ 18:16
The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more