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What parents want from their workplaces

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

How digital wallets are transforming emerging markets

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

Consumers embrace FinTech to tighten grip on finances as cost of living rises

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

BNPL – Not such a great idea after all?

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

Banks are missing out on a customer payment data goldmine

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

Has SCA made it too hard to pay by card?

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

Are you balancing your payments business on a house of cards?

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

UK Fraud report: H1 2022 sees decline in fraud of 13%

13 Oct 22 @ 11:19

UK Finance has released its latest fraud report covering H1 2022. The report shows that while the end of the pandemic has seen a fall in overall fraud losses, some... read more

The European Council approves Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation

13 Oct 22 @ 11:04

The European Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee has approved MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation text, and sent it to the chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary... read more

Alert: BidenCash marketplace gives away data on 1.2 million credit cards

13 Oct 22 @ 10:34

A dark web marketplace named BidenCash has released a massive file of 1.2 million credit cards data to promote the marketplace, allowing anyone to download them for free to conduct... read more

E-commerce fraud losses to exceed $48 billion globally

12 Oct 22 @ 16:53

A new study has found that the total cost of e-commerce fraud to merchants will exceed $48 billion globally in 2023, from just over $41 billion in 2022. It predicts... read more

Deutsche Bank and Fiserv launch Vert in Germany – Winners and Losers?

12 Oct 22 @ 11:06

It has been almost a year and a half since Deutsche Bank and Fiserv announced the founding of a joint venture for the German market called FSDB Merchant Services GmbH.... read more

Mastercard launches contactless card for the quantum computing era

12 Oct 22 @ 08:13

In Q1 2021, Mastercard saw 1 billion more contactless transactions compared to the same period in 2020, and in Q2 2021, 45% of all in-person checkout transactions globally were contactless.... read more

Indian central bank announces digital rupee CBDC trial

11 Oct 22 @ 17:10

The Reserve Bank of India has said it will pilot a digital rupee for specific use cases and also released a concept note on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The... read more

Cheque use drops to all time low – Faster Payments picks up slack

11 Oct 22 @ 13:23

Cheque usage continues to decline for business-to-business (B2B) payments in US and Canada (North America), falling to an all-time low of 33% since AFP (Association for Financial Professionals) began tracking this... read more

Payment Processing as a Business – A huge opportunity for Banks

10 Oct 22 @ 15:20

Research conducted by Celent has revealed that, in response to commercial pressures and changing scheme and regulatory requirements, payments processing is transforming from a commodity to a business, creating compelling... read more

Payments industry continues strong post pandemic recovery statistics

10 Oct 22 @ 13:08

A new report on the recovery of the payments industry suggests the global payments industry demonstrated its resilience again in 2021, more than recouping the revenue erosion experienced in 2020,... read more

Worlds largest crypto exchange Binance suffers massive hack

10 Oct 22 @ 12:28

Over the weekend, Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange suffered a cyber hack that has culminated in a estimated loss of around $570 million and further damages the struggling digital... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

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

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

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

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more