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Banking Circle acquires account-to-account payment provider SEPAexpress

27 Apr 22 @ 16:24

SEPAexpress, which provides white-labelled account-to-account (A2A) payments for Payments Service Providers (PSPs), merchants and corporates in Europe has been acquired by Banking Circle Group. Less than five years after bringing... read more

Digital wallets transaction value to grow 60% by 2026

26 Apr 22 @ 17:33

A new study has found the value of digital wallets transactions will exceed $12 trillion in 2026, from $7.5 trillion in 2022. To capitalise on this substantial growth, the research... read more

JCB completes exit from Russia but Mir stands strong

26 Apr 22 @ 17:16

First it was Visa and Mastercard, then American Express and Discover followed suit, noting that Discover and Diners Club International do not have any active partners in Belarus and Russia.... read more

Bank Heists 5.0 – From heist to hijack, dwell to destruction

25 Apr 22 @ 17:30

The Modern Bank Heists report, which annually takes the pulse of the financial industry’s top CISOs and security leaders to provide executives with a ground truth on the changing behaviour... read more

EU sets out stringent new laws to contain power of Big Tech

25 Apr 22 @ 17:02

EU lawmakers have set out a major set of new legislations designed to heavily curb the powers of US Big Tech companies, forcing them to police content online more aggressively... read more

One year on from enforcement – has PSD2 reduced fraud?

25 Apr 22 @ 13:08

It’s been a year since every merchant across France, Germany, Italy and Spain — the EEA’s largest digital commerce markets — started complying with PSD2, but has enforcement reduced fraud... read more

SHIFT report: A guide to the Middle East payments industry

22 Apr 22 @ 16:22

The MENA FinTech Association (MFTA), has released the first volume of the SHIFT report, a comprehensive guide that supports the FinTech community in navigating the MENA payment landscape. The release... read more

Why did the FCA shut down all the UK’s crypto ATMs

22 Apr 22 @ 10:50

In early March of 2022 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released warning on illegal crypto ATMs operating in the UK – but why? In the warning the FCA noted... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

22 Apr 22 @ 09:30

Tempting as it may be to assume that London is the be-all and end-all when it comes to a Fintech job hunt, the city is part of a much wider... read more

GSMA: State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money

21 Apr 22 @ 16:31

Mobile money has transformed the lives of millions of people globally. Today there are 1.35 billion registered mobile money accounts processing $1 trillion in transactions annually. That is almost $2... read more

TransUnion and senior executive charged with violating law enforcement order

21 Apr 22 @ 11:51

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is filing a lawsuit against TransUnion, two of its subsidiaries, and longtime executive John Danaher for violating a 2017 law enforcement order. The order... read more

Stripe announces growth slowdown but internet opportunities underestimated

21 Apr 22 @ 11:37

Stripe says it expects growth this year will not be as strong as last year when the company benefited from an e-commerce surge spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to... read more

Crypto industry hardens attempts to influence EU policy

20 Apr 22 @ 17:10

In what will almost certainly turn out to be an ill informed attempt to influence policy, more than 40 crypto business leaders have written to the European Union asking not... read more

Russia set to challenge legality of frozen central bank assets

20 Apr 22 @ 12:06

Russia has said it will take legal steps to recover $300 billion of its foreign currency reserves frozen by international sanctions in a bid to overturn one of the hardest... read more

Canadian prepaid payments now a CA$8.5 billion industry

20 Apr 22 @ 11:34

The Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), the collective voice of the open-loop prepaid payments industry in Canada, has released an updated industry forecast in collaboration with Aite-Novarica Group to finalise its... read more

Sustainability: why the card business must act

13 Apr 22 @ 16:41

Whether it’s global warming, resource depletion or the rapid exclusion of populations and communities from resources, our planet is in crisis. In a new white paper, we outline the pressures... read more

Mastercard joins gold rush into the Metaverse

13 Apr 22 @ 16:00

Mastercard has joined the land grab by major payments players and banks into the Metaverse, with new filings related to NFTs, virtual worlds and more. The 15 filings by Mastercard,... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

13 Apr 22 @ 13:49

It’s pretty clear that it’s a jobseekers market at the moment – the great resignation has been swiftly followed by the great rehire, and as people seek out new opportunities,... 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