03 May 22 @ 08:52
The European Commission has accused Apple of abusing its market position for contactless payments via its digital wallet app Apple Pay. The EU regulator charged Apple with breaking competition law... read more
29 Apr 22 @ 18:02
Visa has (again) posted much stronger than expected Q1 2022 earnings amid a consumer spending rebound powered in part by business and personal travel following a “short-lived” jump in Omicron... read more
29 Apr 22 @ 17:33
National governments and central banks that enable the move towards real-time payments unlock economic growth and accelerate financial inclusion for increasingly fast-paced and digital-led ‘gig economies’ according to the third... read more
29 Apr 22 @ 09:29
If you’ve worked in banking for the majority of your career and are feeling a little burnt out, a change could be as good as a rest. The transfer of... read more
28 Apr 22 @ 17:38
Data from Barclaycard Payments, which processes £1 in every £3 spent on credit and debit cards in the UK, shows that many online businesses are still not fully compliant with... read more
28 Apr 22 @ 17:12
If you have been following the cybercrime landscape for the past year or so, you may have read about the Conti ransomware group – one of the largest organised crime... read more
28 Apr 22 @ 16:49
A new report based on an independent global survey from Edgar, Dunn & Company found a strong affinity towards physical and metal payment cards, especially with digital-native millennials. The majority... read more
27 Apr 22 @ 17:11
The Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) predicts that by 2026, £1.3 billion could be made in cost savings for British businesses and consumers through real-time payments – helping... read more
27 Apr 22 @ 16:41
“170 years ago Americans pushed westward across the frontier to seek their fortune in the gold rush. Greed and lawlessness turned this promised land into the Wild West, where the... read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
22 Oct 26 @ 18:16
The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more