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

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

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

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

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

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