26 Oct 22 @ 18:53

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says the six-week Project mBridge pilot to evaluate whether CBDC would be useful for foreign exchange transfers has successfully processed 160 payments worth around... read more

26 Oct 22 @ 18:40

PCM spoke to Andrej Andelic, Business Development Executive at Nets, about what banks are missing out on by not maximising the benefits of customer transaction data. PCM: Many larger banks... read more

26 Oct 22 @ 18:20

Just month after completing the sale of its POS division, Worldline has announced the closing of the acquisition of 55% of the capital of SoftPos.eu, which transforms Android mobile devices... read more

25 Oct 22 @ 18:46

Japan’s JCB has launched “JCBDC” (JCB Digital Currency) pilot project with IDEMIA and FinTech company Soft Space . JCBDC pilot will develop a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) payment solution... read more

25 Oct 22 @ 18:23

Meta has announced a new partnership with J.P. Morgan Payments to expand Meta Pay to J.P. Morgan merchants as a new checkout option for people. This partnership will allow people to... read more

25 Oct 22 @ 18:05

A draft European Union rule would demand that euro zone banks in would be required to provide instant payments in the single currency. The EU wants to modernise payments so... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 21:56

A new report claims that, as in 2021, banks are facing increasing change and consolidating their digital transformation in a pressurised macroeconomic environment. In 2022, however, the study highlights the... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 20:02

PayPal says that it is introducing support for passkey, providing what it says will be an easier and more secure login method for PayPal accounts. Passkeys are an industry standard developed... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 19:39

The European Commission has approved the merger of the payment services Vipps and MobilePay, the companies announce the deal had been “approved by all relevant authorities, including the EU Commission”.... read more

21 Oct 22 @ 10:05

First came Apple Pay. Then the Apple Card, in partnership with Goldman Sachs. Now Apple has entered the burgeoning Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) market with Apple Pay Later. So is Apple looking... read more

21 Oct 22 @ 09:49

NatWest Group has entered into a strategic partnership with the Vodeno Group  which will see the creation of a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) business in the UK. This strategic partnership will enable... read more

21 Oct 22 @ 09:45

While conducting internal meetings over a game of pool or having fridges stocked full of free beer might have lured potential employees in the past, in-office perks are becoming increasingly... read more

20 Oct 22 @ 13:12

The use of cash around the world dropped by one-third last year according to the World Payments Report 2022. This huge reduction in cash use happened as growing numbers of... read more

18 Oct 22 @ 10:05

Plaid has published its third annual report entitled The Fintech Effect, revealing that 84% of UK consumers are using FinTech to manage their money in 2022, with broad adoption across demographic... read more

18 Oct 22 @ 09:12

In this article we look at the effect of an economic slowdown on payment choices, and ask whether BNPL will continue to be the poster-child of payments in this new... read more

17 Oct 22 @ 16:45

Nets has launched a new product that helps banks which are currently struggling to collate and interpret customer payment data. Time and budget constraints mean most banks do not keep up... read more

17 Oct 22 @ 16:04

As implementation of the EU’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) moves from a “soft” to “hard” state – that is, with liability transferring to those merchants that don’t employ SCA –... read more

17 Oct 22 @ 10:21

A new white paper from Compass Plus Technologies asks a pertinent question often overlooked in discussions around payments business legacy system replacement: in an industry that is increasingly embracing alternative... read more