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Retail banks enjoy stellar year in 2023 – challenges ahead

25 Apr 24 @ 10:04

Kearney has released the sixteenth edition of its annual European Retail Banking Radar, which tracks the performance of close to 90 retail banks across 21 European markets. The study found... read more

Prioritise payment technology to stay competitive

24 Apr 24 @ 16:55

New research from Lloyds Bank highlights the importance of UK businesses investing in new payment technology. Two-thirds (59%) of UK Retail, Food & Beverage (F&B) and Hospitality companies were found... read more

How to approach modernising your legacy payments ecosystem

24 Apr 24 @ 16:43

For decades now, vendors and analysts have been heralding the death of legacy payments ecosystems, but still, they remain in use. Over the past 20 years, FIs have been threatened... read more

Temenos hits back at Hindenburg Report, appoints new CEO

24 Apr 24 @ 15:59

In mid-February of this year Payments Cards & Mobile reported on a major bust up between Hindenburg Research, a prominent investor in Temenos. At the time, Temenos hit out at... read more

Asia Pacific leads world in adoption of local payment methods

23 Apr 24 @ 16:07

Boku has released a global research report entitled 2024 Global E-commerce Report: The Changing World of Payments. The report reveals the increasing preference for local payment methods and the continued decline in... read more

The increasing sophistication of synthetic identity fraud

23 Apr 24 @ 15:19

Synthetic identity fraud is most commonly associated with fraud in banking or against credit unions but is often mistakenly overlooked in digital commerce. With fraudsters becoming more clever about how... read more

The Central Bank of Mauritania commissions G+D for CBDC

23 Apr 24 @ 14:11

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) and Banque Centrale de Mauritanie have signed an agreement during the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group to jointly explore the development... read more

UK Market: Facilitating commercial Variable Recurring Payments

22 Apr 24 @ 16:24

UK Finance, in association with law firm Addleshaw Goddard, has published a report on the use of model clauses to support the development of the Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) for... read more

EU regulator set to approve Apple Pay 3rd party access

22 Apr 24 @ 16:01

In January of this year Payments Cards & Mobile brought you the breaking news that the EU regulator was aggressively pursuing Apple, and in particular, singled out its restricted access... read more

Get on your marks for PSD3, PSR and FIDA

22 Apr 24 @ 12:51

As the clock ticks down to new regulations that will change the face of Open Banking, data access, and security, Alex Reddish, Managing Director of Tribe Payments, takes a deep dive... read more

Banks go Lego – The future of banking services

19 Apr 24 @ 13:25

Having survived the hype cycle, so-called “bank in a box” services will shift how banking and payments work over the next five years, creating new revenue streams for traditional banking... read more

The Credit card market is not even close to being saturated

19 Apr 24 @ 12:58

Since the announcement of Capital One’s intentions to acquire Discover in the acquisition of the year to date, the market has been abuzz with rumours of a challenge from the... read more

25% of online transactions fail, costing Europe €18bn a year

19 Apr 24 @ 12:17

According to research published in Payments Cards & Mobile[1], more than one in four (26%) of all transactions in major European markets fail because of customer friction caused by complex... read more

Exploring the future of mobile payments in Europe

18 Apr 24 @ 16:45

The European mobile payment sector is undergoing a period of notable evolution, characterised by its fragmentation and significant expansion. As outlined in a new mobile payments report by Arkwright Consulting,... read more

Slow check-out and customer friction cost too much – it’s time to change

18 Apr 24 @ 15:29

Almost one in three (32%) online transactions in Germany fail due to consumer friction during check out. It’s time to rethink approaches to authentication. As the global economy digitizes and... read more

BIAN standards association demonstrates growing influence with new members

18 Apr 24 @ 15:00

BIAN, the independent not-for-profit standards association, is announcing that 19 new members have joined the growing organisation, bringing the total number of members to 98. This momentum has helped BIAN... read more

Bad bot report: Bots now 50% of all internet traffic

17 Apr 24 @ 16:05

Thales has released the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet. Nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic came from bots in... read more

Issuers: get ready for a token-focused future

17 Apr 24 @ 15:22

Payment tokens offer massively improved security by turning sensitive personal information such as credit card and account numbers and turning them into a secure “token”, represented by a unique set... 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