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CBDC: How seriously should we take the Dollar Vs Yuan supremacy story

18 May 21 @ 12:41

Recently, several commentators have identified a potential Chinese central bank digital currency as a serious economic and national security threat to the United States and chastised the US government for... read more

Prepaid Financial Services in regulatory hot water…again

18 May 21 @ 11:46

Prepaid Financial Services is in the regulators sights again just two months after being named and fined for a cartel involving Mastercard, Allpay, Sulion and Cashplus. Shares in PFS’s Australian... read more

Interview with Horst Forster, Research Director At Payments Cards & Mobile

17 May 21 @ 16:14

Horst Forster is a European payments expert with decades of experience in payments consulting and financial technology research. He runs PCM’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks, as well as working on... read more

European payments in 2021: Cards remain No. 1 for consumers

17 May 21 @ 16:04

Amid rising hype about mobile wallets, P2P FinTech challengers and QR-code payments, this year’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks show a card segment in robust health, with business growing strongly.... read more

Payment fraud fears grow – 65% of consumers more concerned about fraud

17 May 21 @ 09:58

As the pandemic drove consumers online en masse to make purchases, consumer anxiety around fraud saw a considerable spike. For the 2021 Fraud Report, Marqeta surveyed 2,000 consumers across the... read more

Diem drops Swiss license and heads to US for stablecoin trial

14 May 21 @ 10:34

Facebooks cryptocurrency Diem has been forced to abandon plans to gain a license in Switzerland via its financial regulator FINMA and is instead going to set up operations in the... read more

KYC and the rise of cryptocurrency payments

14 May 21 @ 09:57

What a difference a year makes. Just 18 months ago, leading global bankers were describing cryptocurrencies as “a worse [bubble] than tulip bulbs” – and now Goldman Sachs has launched... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

14 May 21 @ 08:15

There’s a real sense of positivity in the air this week, isn’t there? Probably to do with the slow (but steady) reopening of the country. Plus, the weather has been... read more

How to ramp up Europe’s fight against money laundering

12 May 21 @ 12:07

Money laundering is about much more than white-collar crime. It is a process which fuels the activities of criminal gangs that are extremely harmful to European society as a whole.... read more

De Roos & Pen sends notice to Dutch bank for financial malpractice

12 May 21 @ 11:41

In another startling case of financial malpractice unearthed in a Dutch-registered bank headquartered in the Netherlands owned by a Turkish financial holding company, a whistle blower as advised by his... read more

Online casino payment options: What, why and how?

12 May 21 @ 11:08

Unless you have been living under a rock, we are going to go ahead and presume that you are aware of the global phenomenon that is the online casino. Since... read more

Banks will return to pre-COVID performance levels within three to five years

11 May 21 @ 15:44

Analysis from Kearney has found that the performance of retail banks is likely to return to pre-COVID levels within three to five years, although profitability will remain under pressure in... read more

Report: Opportunities and challenges of CBDC for international payments

11 May 21 @ 15:17

The emergence of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) is gathering speed, with more than half of the world’s central banks actively considering their introduction. The reasons are varied: to compensate... read more

Banking Circle joins P27 initiative for bulk clearing initiative

11 May 21 @ 14:46

Banking Circle has joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a front-runner bank in creating bulk-clearing for the Danish Krone. P27 has been acknowledged as a vital initiative to address... read more

Citi Bank eyes moving into the cryptocurrency market

10 May 21 @ 16:16

Citi Bank is reportedly considering taking its first steps into cryptocurrency markets after a surge in interest from clients. The group is the latest major bank to consider pushing into... read more

Research: COVID Triggers changes in payments habits amongst 80% of consumers

10 May 21 @ 13:57

More than eight in ten consumers (86%) say that their payments habits have changed since the start of the pandemic, with 59% trying a new payment method for the first... read more

West African challenger bank selects BPC to drive its digital payment strategy

10 May 21 @ 09:00

BPC is proud to announce that the Vista Bank Group (Vista) has selected its paytech provider Radar Payments to drive its global payment processing activities. Vista is a Pan-African financial... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

09 May 21 @ 18:00

If you’re looking for a change, then you’ve come to the right place. Getting a new job can be daunting, overwhelming but mostly, it’s exciting! And it’s the type of... 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