14 Jun 19 @ 15:33
The Asia Pacific mobile wallet market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $35 billion to over $140 billion by 2024. The increasing penetration of... read more
14 Jun 19 @ 13:49
PPRO has announced the acquisition of Latin American payments provider allpago to create the world’s leading platform for local payments. allpago is a provider of payment and gateway services in... read more
13 Jun 19 @ 15:22
After years of low inflation making the exports of some euro members uncompetitive, inflation in the eurozone finally hit the ECB’s (European Central Bank) 2% target in 2018. Despite some... read more
13 Jun 19 @ 12:31
The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed that Allied Wallet helped perpetrators to defraud more than $110m from consumers in scams, pyramid schemes and unlawful debt collection operations. An online payment... read more
11 Jun 19 @ 14:24
The future of mobile payments, both in the US and around the world, will likely be determined by the success of the OEM Pay wallets. Data from Juniper Research indicates... read more
11 Jun 19 @ 09:20
New data has found that international digital remittances will reach $525 billion by 2024, up from an estimated $332 in 2019. According to Juniper Research, the mobile channel will become... read more
11 Jun 19 @ 09:04
Alipay will collaborate with six mobile wallets across Europe, to enable QR code-based digital payment interoperability for travellers both in Europe and from China. Alipay is working with European brands... read more
10 Jun 19 @ 12:53
A Juniper Research report predicts that by 2023 there will be 8 billion devices with voice assistants in them, up from 2.5 billion at the end of 2018, and that... read more
10 Jun 19 @ 12:19
That the use of cash in the UK is falling is not news, with predictions that fewer than one in 10 transactions will be completed with notes and coins in... read more
10 Jun 19 @ 09:06
Facebook says it will launch its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra, currently scheduled for a June 18th release according to TechCrunch which reported multiple investors briefed on the project by Facebook were told... read more
07 Jun 19 @ 17:11
EMVCo has released EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) Specification v1.0, which is available for free public download from the EMVCo website. The specification provides a foundation that will enable the processing... read more
05 Jun 19 @ 13:37
Visa has announced a new strategic agreement with Western Union to implement Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time[1] push payments platform in an effort to bring speed and transparency to the process... read more
04 Jun 19 @ 17:22
JCB International has released an insight paper that reveals a 63% growth in annual sales volume made by Asian card members in Europe between 2017 and 2018, and a 45%... read more
04 Jun 19 @ 16:54
The World FinTech Report 2019, published by Capgemini Efma, indicates that even though Open Banking has yet to reach maturity, the financial services industry is entering a new phase of... read more
04 Jun 19 @ 09:01
Never before has the importance of technology been greater in financial services. Digital banking solutions and apps have made their way into everyday life across Europe. A new study across... read more
03 Jun 19 @ 16:45
Signicat has revealed that 38% of all financial services applications in Europe are abandoned despite massive investment in digital transformation by institutions. Although the 38% figure is an improvement on 2018’s... read more
03 Jun 19 @ 16:19
89% of airline, supermarket and subscription economy merchants are primed for Open Banking and have assessed the impact it will have on their business a new piece of research commissioned... read more
03 Jun 19 @ 16:07
FIME has continued to innovate and adapt testing in line with the rapid digital transformation of the global payments industry. The new FIME Test Factory 4.0 platform enables payment players... read more
03 Jun 19 @ 15:54
Tribe Payments launched today and has already achieved a key milestone with UnionPay International. Tribe is among the first issuer processors in Europe to be certified to allow banks to... read more
29 May 19 @ 15:48
Open Banking was launched to spur innovation in the financial services industry and create a better deal for consumers. But new research reveals that European financial institutions still have significant... read more
20 Oct 26 @ 09:06
Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more
15 Oct 26 @ 19:41
Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more
22 Oct 26 @ 18:16
The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more