20 Jun 22 @ 11:28

A new white paper from Netcetera explains why a rise in the number of older Europeans is good news for banks’ digital strategy – provided they get their digital offering for... read more

20 Jun 22 @ 10:55

In mid-January 2021 the four of Irelands largest banks joined forces to launch an instant payments digital payment app, dubbed Synch, that they intended to promote to help fend off... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 11:47

The India Central Bank has lifted its restrictions on Mastercard issuing new cards in the domestic market, nearly a year after imposing the ban, after it demonstrated “satisfactory compliance” with... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 09:24

Interac says that Canadians have reached a money movement milestone.  Interac e-Transfer usage has crossed a new threshold, reaching more than 1 billion transactions over a 12-month period for the... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 09:15

First it’s a quick Slack query, then a couple of minutes later it’s an email, “just following up on my message.” Next it’s a text checking if you got the... read more

17 Jun 22 @ 08:43

At Checkout, we’re committed to enabling businesses like Binance, Blockchain.com, Crypto.com, Farfetch and Sony to thrive in the digital economy. That’s why, for the past few years, we have been... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 16:06

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2022 will be remembered for many things, including the deepest recession since the 1930s and subsequent economic turmoil. Although Europe’s economies have largely recovered, turmoil remains... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 12:04

With much of the world reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, trends in online shopping are slowly starting to normalise again. But several of the seismic shifts seen across... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 10:07

When an American online retailer became the first major merchant worldwide to accept cryptocurrency as payment in 2014, it was big news. Since then, digital currency has entered the mainstream.... read more

15 Jun 22 @ 17:24

The world is going mobile. And so too is Fraud. Global smartphone ownership rose sharply from 49% in 2016 to 83% in 2022, equating to 6.64 billion people owning a... read more

15 Jun 22 @ 17:07

November 2022 marks the point of migration for some of the top global payment infrastructures to ISO 20022, an international standard for exchanging electronic messages between financial institutions, covering cards,... read more

15 Jun 22 @ 09:00

The financial space has a long history of exclusionism for small business owners. Slow processes, backwards-looking risk models and finance providers that don’t seem to truly understand the needs of... read more

13 Jun 22 @ 17:21

A wide range of factors have combined to heighten competition in retail banking in recent years, most linked to the digital revolution. To start with, traditional “high street” banks are... read more

13 Jun 22 @ 13:05

Despite more than a decade of non-stop innovation in online and digital payments, the majority of businesses are happy to settle for a “vanilla” off-the-shelf card program that doesn’t fit... read more

13 Jun 22 @ 10:32

The latest bitcoin and crypto sell-off was sparked by fears the Federal Reserve could put its “foot on the gas” in its fight to drive down inflation after the latest... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 12:44

After nearly two years of painstaking implementation, P27 will soon be ready to transition from working with prospective participants to actual customers. Instant payments are at the top of P27’s... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 10:46

I told you so! During Money 2020 I was asked many times about Apple Pay Later and how they would fund the loans. My response? “why would you use Goldman... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 09:45

Last year was a bumper year for investment in the UK Fintech sector: 603 deals were completed in 2021, compared to 470 in 2020 – representing a 28% increase. Additionally,... read more