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Worldline agrees sale of Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business

21 Feb 22 @ 09:00

Worldline has entered into exclusive talks with the Apollo Funds on the basis of a binding offer for the purchase of its Terminals, Solutions & Services (“TSS”) business line. Following the strategic review... read more

Amazon and Visa settle interchange fees spat

21 Feb 22 @ 08:00

Amazon.com reached an agreement with Visa to end the ban on accepting its cards across its network, ending the interchange fees standoff between the two that threatened to disrupt e-commerce... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

18 Feb 22 @ 10:00

You know what? This feels like a good week to start looking for new and exciting opportunities (if you’re interested, of course). There’s a real sense of positivity in the... read more

Tinkoff chooses BPC’s SaaS payment services to drive Asia expansion

17 Feb 22 @ 10:41

BPC has announced that Tinkoff has selected its SaaS Cloud payment services for its planned expansion to the Philippines. The project is an extension to an existing partnership between the... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

11 Feb 22 @ 09:12

We have some really great roles on our job board this month, from advertising and law to some really exciting tech positions. Here’s a bit of a taster of what’s... read more

Discover’s partnership strategy: fostering innovation and growth

09 Feb 22 @ 10:49

In the second of a two-part series on partnerships in payments , Payments Cards & Mobile (PCM) caught up with Jonathon Gould, Regional Managing Director, Global Acceptance, Asia Pacific at Discover... read more

Open Banking and Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) – what’s next on the roadmap

09 Feb 22 @ 09:39

The continued roll out of Open Banking is seeing its next major step forward as the nine largest banks in the UK (the CMA9) prepare for the implementation of Variable... read more

8 out of 10 card payments now contactless in the Nordics

08 Feb 22 @ 12:25

New data on card payments and in-app card mobile payments in 2021 have been released by Nets. In the Nordics – a region renowned for being a digital payments pioneer... read more

Digital ID infrastructure is key as payments become transparent

08 Feb 22 @ 10:49

Remote and contactless payments popularity with consumers grew during the pandemic, which is prompting the need for a robust digital identity infrastructure in the Payments 4.X era.1 In the connected... read more

Open Banking will be here sooner than you think – Here’s why

07 Feb 22 @ 17:21

A new report by European Open Banking services provider Tink finds much positive sentiment about the greater competition and wider palette of services Open Banking will bring. Such breathless optimism... read more

Half of the world’s population will use mobile wallets by 2025

07 Feb 22 @ 15:00

In 2019, mobile wallets overtook credit cards to become the most widely used payment type globally. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic became another accelerant of the continued digitization of the... read more

Digital & Card Payment Yearbooks: Cards – past their peak?

04 Feb 22 @ 16:12

The 2021-2022 Digital and Card Payment Yearbooks from Payments Cards & Mobile suggest payment card use may be starting to decline, to be replaced by digital wallets, direct-to-account payments and... read more

European-based crypto apps boomed as downloads soar 560% in 2021

04 Feb 22 @ 15:20

New research from app analytics and marketing platform App Radar has found that 2021 was a record year for crypto apps with over 82.9 million Google Play Store downloads compared... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

04 Feb 22 @ 10:04

As we emerge from the last few years of lockdowns and restrictions, things are really starting to look positive. The world is somewhat returning to normal, and we couldn’t be... read more

Future of payments: Innovation shifts from consumers to businesses

03 Feb 22 @ 16:11

Increasingly blurred boundaries mean that practically anyone can declare themselves a payment provider, using banking-as-a-service to embed payments. Customers can filter this choice through a lens of preference and habit. For firms, complexity... read more

How Bank/FinTech partnerships enable payments transformation

03 Feb 22 @ 15:11

In the first of a two-part series, PCM finds out from Discover Global Network why creative partnerships between FinTech start-ups and established financial institutions are the future. The rapid integration... read more

PayPal shares plunge as company reports decline in volume

03 Feb 22 @ 10:34

Just days after all three major networks provided the market with monster updates, PayPal seems to be feeling the pressure. PayPal shares fell more than 25% in early trading on... read more

India’s Finance Minister announces plan to launch digital Rupee CBDC

02 Feb 22 @ 18:07

India’s central bank says it will launch a digital rupee CBDC in the next financial year, according to the country’s finance minister. “Introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)... read more

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Swift launches new framework for cross-border payments

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

SWIFT has introduced a new international payments framework aimed at significantly improving the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border retail t... more

Credit’s next competitive frontier beyond top of wallet

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. [caption id="attachment_52085" align="a... more

Visa tests the foundations of agentic payments in Europe

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial inte... more