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M2020 Live: Banking Circle supports interoperability between national mobile payment systems

07 Jun 22 @ 19:21

The German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are the first mobile payment systems to become interoperable with one another. Interoperability of the two systems is based on the specifications of... read more

M2020 Live: Open Banking payments will become most popular payment method

07 Jun 22 @ 15:54

Nuapay has released new data revealing that 1 in 4 (25%) merchants predict Open Banking payments will become the most popular payment method amongst customers in the next 5 years.... read more

M2020 Live: ACI Worldwide launches Smart Engage

07 Jun 22 @ 15:34

ACI Worldwide has launched ACI Smart Engage, a mobile engagement platform that enables merchants worldwide to serve up their inventory of goods and services directly to consumers’ smartphones using location,... read more

M2020 Live: Apple launch Apple Pay Later BNPL product

07 Jun 22 @ 15:21

Apple has launched a BNPL product, announcing the move as part of a range of product updates at its annual developer conference. With Apple Pay Later, iPhone and Mac users... read more

Family wallets are the foundation of future banking

06 Jun 22 @ 09:36

A new white paper from European payments solutions leader NETS suggests that family wallets will be pivotal to tomorrow’s financial services landscape. With recent work from the European Banking Authority... read more

Open Banking will enable faster, fairer credit checking for BNPL

06 Jun 22 @ 09:15

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has been a payments phenomenon in recent years – however, regulators are now looking at more stringent legislation to protect consumers. While the success of... read more

Australian competition authority sues Mastercard for anti-competitive pricing

01 Jun 22 @ 13:02

Mastercard finds itself in the dock with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) which has launched an civil action over alleged anti-competitive pricing activity in the card payments market.... read more

Seniors can’t get no satisfaction from today’s digital wallets

01 Jun 22 @ 12:49

A new white paper from Netcetera says banks should be doing more to adapt and extend their digital wallet offering to those over 65 as cash use declines and commerce goes... read more

How To Write A Top Notch FinTech CV

01 Jun 22 @ 09:48

With a number of important clusters in the UK as well as a superhub of activity in the sector focusing on London, the FinTech industry here is undoubtedly a global... read more

ATM plays a key role in cash access – COVID-19 leaves lasting impact on numbers

31 May 22 @ 16:40

Most countries have witnessed a drop in ATM numbers in 2021 as cashless payments gained further ground, but with the worst impact of COVID-19 over, some deployers are renewing efforts... read more

Meta goes again – submitting Meta Pay trademark applications

31 May 22 @ 15:20

Mark Zuckerberg just can’t leave it alone! The social media company, despite many best efforts to launch a payments platform, has now submitted trademark applications for a digital assets trading... read more

Ingenico enable Alipay+ rollout to millions of merchants, banks and acquirers

31 May 22 @ 13:22

Ingenico and Ant Group have announced details of their  partnership that will allow acquirers and other payment service providers to implement Alipay+ seamlessly across their merchant networks using Ingenico’s PPaaS... read more

How financial intermediaries can integrate crypto assets

27 May 22 @ 16:36

Most crypto owners would prefer to interact with digital assets through their banks and other traditional financial institutions, according to Navigating Crypto: How Banks and Other Financial Intermediaries Can Integrate... read more

TechnoVision 2022: Financial services move to enhanced CX

27 May 22 @ 12:22

It’s no secret that the financial services industry continues to face accelerated rapid change and transformative trends, including the evolution of ecosystem businesses, heightened customer expectations around digital interaction, low-touch... read more

5 Significant shifts in the FinTech job market

27 May 22 @ 09:45

Things are looking broadly positive in the Fintech space, according to Robert Walters’ Global Fintech Talent Report. In the first quarter of 2022, the global Fintech industry saw more than... read more

77% of Gen Z are ditching physical wallets for mobile wallets

26 May 22 @ 17:08

Marqeta has released a report looking at consumer payment, mobile wallets, banking and shopping preferences, showing digital adoption is on the rise. The company surveyed of 4,000 consumers across three... read more

NatWest completes first ‘non-sweeping’ customer payments through VRP

26 May 22 @ 16:33

NatWest Group is the first UK bank to go beyond the requirement for banks to provide Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) for sweeping – the automatic transfer of money between two... read more

Wall Street decries Digital Dollar as the destruction of banks

26 May 22 @ 16:07

Wall Street and its bankers have come out all guns blazing in an argument with the Federal Reserve saying that launching its own digital dollar could crack the foundations of... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more