24 Oct 22 @ 13:08

A new report from leading financial research firm East & Partners in partnership with Payments Cards & mobile, claims banks are lagging far behind their clients’ expectations when it comes... read more

17 Aug 20 @ 15:30

BitPay has launched the BitPay Card, the first Mastercard Prepaid card for crypto users in the US. The card enables customers to instantly convert cryptocurrency into fiat currency, which is... read more

13 Oct 19 @ 14:09

Commerzbank has partnered with Daimler Trucks on a pilot to use a blockchain e-money wallet called the Daimler Truck Wallet to make payments with e-euros from Commerzbank. Once the e-euros... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 09:36

Monerium has received a license from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland to issue e-money on blockchains through its subsidiary, Monerium EMI. The full license is the world’s first e-money... read more

03 Jun 19 @ 14:25

105 organisations representing the full distributed ledger technology (DLT) ecosystem, including a number of big names from the financial services sector, announced their commitment to a new platform, the International... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:41

Speaking at the recent Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, a number of industry experts predicted that public concern over recent data security breaches and rising fraud on existing payment systems... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:26

SoftBank, Synchronoss and TBCASoft have partnered on a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a new cross-carrier mobile payments service based on the Rich Communications Service (RCS) global messaging standard and... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:46

Ripple in partnership with a consortium of 61 Japanese banks has developed a payments app that settles transactions instantly via Blockchain technology. Ripple says that the ‘Money Tap’ app will... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:16

JPMorgan Chase is set to launch a new interbank payments platform powered by the Quorum enterprise-ready distributed ledger and smart contract Blockchain platform. With the participation of two other banks... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 13:56

A consortium of Spanish banking, energy and teleco heavyweights have established Blockchain-based national network dubbed Alastria. The non-profit world’s first regulated national network based on Blockchain, will develop distributed ledger... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:33

BBVA completed the first real-lifeimplementation of an international money transfer using Ripple’s new distributed ledger technology (DLT). The transaction, running on BBVA infrastructures with real money, successfully completed transfers between Spain and... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:17

The news that JPMorgan Chase left the R3 Blockchain consortium speaks to the challenges ahead for any consortium whose aim is to get multiple financial institutions to agree on a... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:44

SBI Ripple Asia, a joint venture between distributed ledger tech provider Ripple and SBI Holdings, announced in August that a Japanese consortium of 15 banks in a new network will... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:49

ACCENTURE IS STIRRING up a Blockchain storm within the community by patenting a technique for editing information stored using the nascent technology in a move designed to make it more... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 10:00

SANTANDER UK HAS announced that it is experimenting with international Blockchain payments. The lender is allowing transfers of between £10 and £10,000 in any of three currencies (GBP, EUR or... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 14:58

Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised,... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 07:39

Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, are planning to develop common standards for blockchain technology in an effort to broaden its use across... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:06

When computers first entered mainstream use, languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal defined programming. They were precise but inaccessible to most, requiring deep technical knowledge to manipulate even simple tasks.... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:03

In an era defined by urgent climate imperatives and shifting social expectations, the payments industry finds itself at a strategic inflection point. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, once the... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:01

A new rouble-pegged cryptocurrency, A7A5, has quietly become a potent tool in Russia’s efforts to circumvent Western sanctions — moving $9.3bn in transactions within four months of its February launch.... read more