28 Jan 14 @ 11:07

Recent payment regulation, interchange proposals in Europe and the revision of the Payment Services Directive will have a significant impact on business strategies for all stakeholders going forward – reports... read more

27 Jan 14 @ 11:05

The rapid growth of the mPOS sector worldwide is making a profound impact on the wider industry, with banks, vendors and non-bank players all fighting for a piece of the... read more

22 Jan 14 @ 14:50

Given the outspoken nature of T-Mobile CEO John Legere you will have heard all about their Uncarrier initiatives. Its latest, Called Mobile Money, the personal finance product combines a smartphone app (iOS or Android)... read more

16 Jan 14 @ 11:47

The number of ATMs installed worldwide increased by more than 180,000 during 2012 so the global ATM market reached 2.6 million at the end of the year. This is one... read more

06 Jan 14 @ 16:25

The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association, has announced, in the ongoing Interchange Fee Settlement fiasco  “it has formally filed an appeal of a controversial antitrust lawsuit settlement covering credit... read more

17 Dec 13 @ 09:25

It has been another topsy turvy week for Bitcoin as Norway, the government of Scandinavia’s richest nation, confirmed the virtual currency doesn’t qualify as real money. “Bitcoins don’t fall under... read more

16 Dec 13 @ 15:42

A group of US retailers have vowed to continue fighting a US District Court ruling in favour of a $5.7 billion interchange settlement with Visa and MasterCard over credit card... read more

13 Dec 13 @ 09:00

In an unsurprising reaction, the draft European Parliament report on the proposed Regulation on banking interchange fees (MIF) would water down the Commission proposal so that the majority of the... read more

22 Nov 13 @ 16:39

Safaricom has offered to negotiate a settlement with rival Airtel in an abuse of dominance dispute filed before the competition regulator. Correspondence between the two firms shows that Safaricom agreed to... read more

22 Nov 13 @ 16:06

In an unsurprising piece of news, Google has decided to follow companies such as PayPal who have developed a physical extensions of their mobile payment solutions. The news that Google was likely... read more

19 Nov 13 @ 19:00

The European Payment Users Alliance is a group of European payment users who have come together to call for more transparency and competition in the payment market. We welcome the... read more

14 Nov 13 @ 17:45

Seamless has continued its rapid rise in the mobile wallet space with its SEQR. A collaboration with bpost bank in Belgium has been announced that will enable consumers to connect... read more

25 Oct 13 @ 10:27

TransferWise, the international money transfer platform started by the first employee of Skype, has launched the world’s first peer-to-peer mobile money transfer app. The free app, which is compatible with iPhone,... read more

17 Oct 13 @ 09:25

Square has introduced Square Cash; a new service that allows users to send money by sending an email. With Square Cash, “individuals no longer need to write checks, pay ATM fees... read more

10 Oct 13 @ 16:22

A new regulator is to be created in the UK to open up the privately-owned payments system and cut the cost for new entrants to take on big players. The regulator will... read more

10 Oct 13 @ 09:37

Amazon has launched a new service, login and pay with Amazon, allowing user to pay for online goods and services using your pre-registered Amazon account information. Amazon has 215 million active customer accounts. Online retailers... read more

08 Oct 13 @ 15:33

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released the U.S. Mobile Payments Landscape – Two Years Later, which examines changes in the evolution of mobile POS retail payments... read more

24 Sep 13 @ 14:13

Research firm Gartner expects the mobile-payments market to grow by 31% this year to $235.4 billion — and to increase by more than three-fold by 2017. For this reason, PayPal... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 14:42

Poste Italiane has signed an agreement with Payleven, a provider of mobile card payments, which makes the payleven mobile card payment product available for all clients of Banco Posta in Italy. The... read more

17 Sep 13 @ 09:18

A Sepa migration forum facilitated by the Euro Banking Association has set out its best practice guidelines on direct debit exception handling. The Sepa migration action round table (Smart) presented... read more