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74% of UK payments leaders believe AI will mitigate risk

09 Oct 23 @ 17:10

While financial forecasters continue to signal near-term economic downturns across the globe, FIS has conducted new research to understand how corporate executives across industries are innovating amid uncertainty. FIS’ Global Innovation... read more

American Express to pilot biometric recognition in SafeKey

09 Oct 23 @ 16:55

American Express is adding biometric, via facial and fingerprint recognition, to SafeKey to help prevent fraud and create a simple and intuitive online checkout process. The company is the first... read more

Global card purchase volume hits $42.7 trillion

06 Oct 23 @ 14:08

A new report reveals that growth in card purchase volume in 2022 was driven by increasing financial inclusion, digitisation and the easing of lockdowns. Global Cards and Payments shows that... read more

What do the PSD3 and PSR mean for the payments sector?

06 Oct 23 @ 13:44

On June 28, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published a set of new legislative proposals, notably for a Third Payment Services Directive (PSD3) and a Payment Services Regulation (PSR). It... read more

Class-action lawsuit accuses PayPal of anticompetitive pricing

06 Oct 23 @ 11:49

Consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Venmo and PayPal, alleging it enacts illegally anticompetitive policies through its anti-steering rules that ultimately lead to millions of consumers paying excess charges annually,... read more

Exploring FIDA: revised rules on financial data sharing access

05 Oct 23 @ 16:09

In June 2023 the European Commission put forward a proposal for a Regulation to further digitalise and improve competitiveness in the European financial sector. The proposal for a Financial Data... read more

BIS and central banks explore cross-border transactions regulation

05 Oct 23 @ 12:38

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and central bank partners have launched Project Mandala. The project explores the feasibility of encoding jurisdiction-specific policy and regulatory requirements into a common protocol... read more

AirPlus launches new spend analytics platform AirPlus Intelligence

05 Oct 23 @ 09:30

AirPlus International has introduced AirPlus Intelligence, a brand-new tool that enables customers to analyse and manage their spend. Its basic module, the AirPlus Intelligence Hub, is now available as an... read more

PayPal integrates Apple Wallet for In-Store and online payments

04 Oct 23 @ 15:58

PayPal has revealed that users can now add their PayPal and Venmo credit or debit cards to their Apple Wallet – a move that was announced last year as part... read more

ECB set to start wholesale CBDC trails on DLT

04 Oct 23 @ 11:16

The European Central Bank will start exploratory work for financial market settlement based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) starting in 2024, according to minutes published Thursday. The central bank is looking... read more

Revolut agrees deal with SoftBank to gain UK banking licence

04 Oct 23 @ 10:49

Finally good news for the embattled fintech as Softbank and Revolut agreed to simplify the ownership structure between the UK fintech and its largest investor. This was, according to reports,... read more

Will the EC’s new legislative proposals help unlock Open Banking

02 Oct 23 @ 17:07

It’s now been a few months since the European Commission (EC) published its package of proposals for the next generation of payments regulation in the EU. The proposals – which... read more

Global research data – The importance of payments preferences

02 Oct 23 @ 16:21

Planet has announced the findings from its latest shopper sentiment poll of over 7,500 consumers across 19 nations. The report provides retailers with new insights into what their customers want... read more

Revolut faces further regulatory scrutiny in UK

02 Oct 23 @ 15:53

Its never a good look for a company hoping to be granted a UK banking licence to be hauled up by two of the most prominent regulatory bodies for separate... read more

Frontier Profits: Where are the new burgeoning payments markets?

29 Sep 23 @ 14:33

As cross-border payment volumes grow and technology becomes more sophisticated, we look at high-risk and lower-volume payments markets to find out what’s happening. Is now the time for major international... read more

ECB launch Infinity Team and Softbank bets on Generative AI

29 Sep 23 @ 10:35

An European Central Bank unit called the “infinity team” has launched nine trials of generative AI — adapting off-the-shelf systems that can create sophisticated text, images and computer code —... read more

Apple to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit in US

29 Sep 23 @ 09:50

Its a good news, bad news week for Apple. Just days after it announced that it will soft launch a new feature for its iPhone Wallet app with an integration... read more

Banking is becoming byte-sized with rise of emerging technologies

28 Sep 23 @ 12:06

Banks must harness disruptive technologies and create their own or actively participate in digital ecosystems to remain at the heart of the banking universe, according to a global Economist Impact... 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