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Super app showdown: Europe risks falling behind

24 Nov 23 @ 17:11

In recent years there has been a surge in the development of mobile applications, known as Super apps, which offer payment and financial transaction processing for personal and commercial life.... read more

Fraud keeps getting worse – what strategies can really help?

24 Nov 23 @ 13:47

The relentless storm of bad news about fraud won’t stop. Whether it’s a JD Power survey claiming 1 in 3 Americans suffered debit card fraud last year, news from Outpayce... read more

Cash is number one in Europe – digital euro catching up with consumers

24 Nov 23 @ 09:53

Cash is the major form of payment across Europe, with its use being most common in Austria and Germany and lowest in Finland. Despite the significant differences in cash usage,... read more

Alarming surge in synthetic fraud rates

23 Nov 23 @ 17:59

A new study shows an alarming trends in synthetic fraud growth. The study, which polled 500 fraud and risk professionals at financial services and fintech companies in the US, shows... read more

Report: Majority of banks piloting opportunities of generative AI

23 Nov 23 @ 13:06

UK Finance and Oliver Wyman have release a report on the use of generative AI in financial services (FS), and the future opportunities and risks for the sector. It includes... read more

UK payments market: The future of payments review

23 Nov 23 @ 12:43

A world leading payments environment is vital for a world leading economy and a healthy society. The economy cannot grow without a payments infrastructure to support it. With this in... read more

Škoda introduce in-car payments with new Pay to Fuel service

22 Nov 23 @ 11:54

Škoda has become the second major car manufacturer to expand its in-car payments to include Pay to Fuel in collaboration with Parkopedia. The new Pay to Fuel service makes paying... read more

Binance pays $4.3 billion to settle money laundering charges

22 Nov 23 @ 10:25

The US Department of Justice has forced a penalty of more than $4 billion from Binance to settle a criminal investigation that caught the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and its... read more

Dispelling the myths surrounding a digital euro

21 Nov 23 @ 18:24

With the decision of the ECB on the start of the preparation phase, Europe has come one step closer to the digital euro. However, there is still a number of... read more

Apple hit with second class action lawsuit over P2P payments

21 Nov 23 @ 16:00

Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit from Venmo and Cash App customers who claim it has abused its power in the market to decrease competition in the... read more

Mastercard gets greenlight for issuing and processing in China

21 Nov 23 @ 14:40

China’s central bank and the National Administration of Financial Regulation has finally issued a bank card clearing license to Mastercard. The People’s Bank of China’s (PBC) approval of the application... read more

Future growth: Fintech in Indonesia

20 Nov 23 @ 17:38

The landscape of fintech in Indonesia is booming, driven by increasing digital penetration and positive investor engagement across this high-growth nation of nearly 300 million citizens. This is a market... read more

Visa and Tencent extend partnership for remittances to digital wallets

20 Nov 23 @ 16:41

Visa and Tencent Financial Technology, the fintech division of Tencent, say they are partnering to enable Weixin users to receive inbound remittance in their digital wallets. This partnership will extend... read more

World Cloud Report – Payments sector leads adoption

17 Nov 23 @ 17:34

The financial services industry is experiencing volatility spurred by ongoing inflation, interest rate hikes and recovering stock markets. To address these market dynamics and maintain business growth financial firms are... read more

Advent acquires myPOS for €500 million

17 Nov 23 @ 16:29

Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to acquire myPOS as part of its latest push into the digital payments market. Advent will acquire the provider of payments services for... read more

Tesco trials App free, checkout free, in-store payments

16 Nov 23 @ 16:55

Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, is trialling app free, checkout free, way for customers to skip self-checkouts in an apparent reaction to a competitor supermarket completely removing self-checkouts due... read more

Cyber criminals ALPHV report hacked company to SEC

16 Nov 23 @ 12:40

Today, in a global first, cyber criminals have upped their game by filing a complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reporting a company it claims to have... read more

Almost two-thirds of US SMEs have switched their payments to ISVs

16 Nov 23 @ 12:01

As the capacity to integrate physical and digital payments with other business functions such as invoicing and delivery rises, US SMEs are switching to integrated software vendors (ISVs) to meet... read more

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Visa launches Intelligence Commerce Connect tool

14 Apr 26 @ 20:03

Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven s... more

Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more

American Express launches agentic commerce developer kit

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend produ... more