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Signicat acquires Encap to create digital identity and authentication powerhouse

02 Jun 21 @ 09:00

Signicat has acquired Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) specialist Encap Security from AllClear ID. With Encap’s secure mobile app-based authentication solution, Signicat ensures SCA compliance across the full customer lifecycle. The acquisition... read more

Paytm plans India’s biggest ever IPO at $3 billion

01 Jun 21 @ 11:56

India’s leading digital payments provider, Paytm, is planning to raise about $3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) in India later this year, in what would be the country’s... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

31 May 21 @ 08:00

Have you been thinking about making a change lately? We don’t blame you! Having spent almost 18 months in some form of lockdown, it feels like now is the right... read more

Worldline continue acquisition spree with purchase of Greece’s Cardlink

28 May 21 @ 14:08

Worldline has announced the signing of a bidding agreement for the acquisition of 92.5% of the share capital of Cardlink, the leading Network Services Provider in Greece. Greece: an attractive payment market With a cash... read more

eBay allows sales of Non-Fungible Tokens on platform

28 May 21 @ 11:15

eBay has announced it will allow the sale of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) for digital collectibles like trading cards, images or video clips on its platform, the first e-commerce company to... read more

Another week – another Central Bank CBDC feasibility test

28 May 21 @ 11:05

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced it will explore the feasibility of a general purpose or retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). South Africa was one of the... read more

Cashless countries: Which are the forefront of the cashless revolution?

27 May 21 @ 09:42

Using data from the World Bank and the largest debit and credit card providers, money.co.uk can reveal the most cashless economies in the world. The company indexed the following five... read more

Fall in global ATM installed base following COVID-19 based growth of cashless payments

27 May 21 @ 08:48

Financial inclusion measures and the ongoing need for cash has led to a rise in ATM numbers in almost half of countries surveyed, but overall, the global ATM installed base... read more

World FinTech Report 2021: The latest update on the global market

26 May 21 @ 16:00

Following on from the World FinTech Report 2020, FinTechs are approaching their next maturity milestone – profitability – as they demonstrated resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic with verticals recording double-digit... read more

Hacker-powered security: Is your organisation paying bounties?

26 May 21 @ 12:59

This is a time of unprecedented challenges. We face never-before-seen threats in the digital and physical worlds. If this past year has taught us anything, it is this: we need... read more

TikTok ready to launch in-app commerce in UK

25 May 21 @ 16:23

TikTok is reportedly working to test in-app commerce in Europe, a move that will intensify its competition with Facebook and further blur the line between social media and online shopping.... read more

The new face of fraud is supplementing human-driven fraud

25 May 21 @ 16:04

Human-driven fraud, where malicious humans engage in fraudulent activities, doubled in volume during Q1 2021 over the previous quarter. Technology platforms and Media companies were the worst affected by human-driven... read more

Wearable tech in 2021: The future is now

25 May 21 @ 12:40

In July of 2017, the Smart Payment Association (SPA) published Wearable Tech: A Growing Payment Opportunity. With sales of wearables booming, the paper explored the huge potential of a world... read more

How much are European merchants paying to accept card payments?

24 May 21 @ 14:05

In 2020, a study by CMSPI and Zephyre found that, on average, European merchants were paying more to accept each card payments than they had prior to regulation.1 This significant finding was... read more

The future of autonomous, invisible, IoT payments

24 May 21 @ 11:03

The first physical currency was minted by King Alyattes of Lydia over 2,600 years ago. These simple coins evolved into banknotes in 1661. However, up until 1871, the monetary transactions... read more

RS2 receives e-money license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

24 May 21 @ 08:49

RS2, the global payments processing and technology provider, has announced that its German subsidiary RS2 Financial Services GmbH has been granted an E-Money Institution (EMI) license by the German regulator,... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

24 May 21 @ 08:30

Are you on the hunt for a new and exciting role? We’ve noticed a huge increase in the amount of jobs being posted to our job board lately (which makes... read more

Belgian population makes massive shift to digital payments

21 May 21 @ 11:35

For years now in Belgium, digital payments have been advancing and the current pandemic has only reinforced this trend. More and more people are abandoning banknotes and coins as such... read more

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Visa and Mastercard move to end two-decade swipe fee battle

11 Jun 26 @ 16:00

A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more

Bank of England Warns DLT Complexity in Settlements

18 May 26 @ 17:07

The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant... more

Visa announces €500 Million European Investment Signals Strategic Response to Payments Sovereignty Push

31 May 26 @ 12:59

The debate around European payments sovereignty has intensified significantly over the past two years. Policymakers, regulators and financial institutions acros... more