10 Dec 24 @ 10:25

Generative AI seems set to make an exponential mark on financial services the industry. Unlike other trends and technologies in the industry, however, confidence in its potential is high while... read more

10 Dec 24 @ 10:23

AI technologies are manifesting in many different ways, solving many different problems and creating many new opportunities in payments and financial services. Anna Milne gets the low down from two... read more

10 Dec 24 @ 10:18

The UK is at a pivotal moment in terms of fintech. Regulation, reputation, growth and investment are under the spotlight, and happily so. These are not mutually exclusive. The powers... read more

10 Dec 24 @ 09:55

The e-commerce sector has transformed dramatically over recent years, with a notable shift during the pandemic when many retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies experienced accelerated online growth. However,... read more

10 Dec 24 @ 09:49

Klarna, the Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) pioneer, has taken its first step towards going public, marking a major development in the fintech world. Klarna disclosed on Wednesday that... read more

22 Oct 24 @ 14:04

In the labyrinth of news about AI, payments transformation and regulation, much of it can feel generic. When it comes to payments, where are payment providers and banks directing their... read more

22 Oct 24 @ 13:44

The Global Payments Report 2024 from Worldpay shows that transaction value on prepaid cards is set to surpass $1 trillion in 2024. Worldpay’s 2024 study explains that prepaid cards have... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:46

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist. So said Keyser Söze (Usual Suspects), paraphrased from Baudelaire and others. Synthetic fraud is the... read more

31 May 24 @ 14:40

Based on exclusive Payments Cards & Mobile research, The Eurasian Digital & Card Payments Yearbook Overview covers 10 countries, providing a snapshot of a region in epochal change and bringing... read more

31 May 24 @ 14:11

It’s tough at the top. Well, it’s even tougher at the bottom. While the pressure has arguably never been greater for retail banks to conform to new standards of service... read more

31 May 24 @ 13:41

Nearly 70% of the 600 fraud-management, anti-money laundering, and risk and compliance officials surveyed in a new report, AI-focused fraud and financial crime, say criminals are more adept at using... read more

31 May 24 @ 13:34

Weeks after reaching a landmark $30 billion settlement on interchange fees designed to provide relief to retail businesses, Mastercard appears to be planning to increase certain credit card fees beginning... read more

02 May 24 @ 10:16

Current approaches have kept fraud at bay: but serious new threats in the digital channel plus digital growing as a proportion of the economy means we need a rethink. James... read more

02 May 24 @ 10:02

A moment of drama, such as sometimes happens in payments, came during the recent MPE conference in Berlin. A UK retailer responded to Visa’s claim that payment networks add far... read more

02 May 24 @ 09:40

While only 7 percent of large European companies offer embedded banking services today, 48 percent have specific plans to launch them in the next three years.  89 percent of those... read more

02 May 24 @ 09:14

J.P. Morgan Payments is set to become a principal member of France’s leading payments network, Cartes Bancaires (CB), with the intention to offer European merchant clients access to the payments... read more

21 Feb 24 @ 10:56

As Asian economic powerhouses join up their faster payment systems and Africa follows suit, Europe lags in confusion, directives, initiatives and strategies. James Wood asks why Europe can’t copy Asia’s... read more

21 Feb 24 @ 10:44

Here at PCM Towers, news reaches us on a weekly basis of the AI-led solutions banks and service companies are creating to fight fraud. To deliver ever-greater customer service, and... read more

14 Dec 23 @ 16:37

As we turn our attention to 2024, James Wood says the advent of generative AI is going to create major security headaches for payments companies – amid other problems. In... read more

14 Dec 23 @ 16:28

As banks struggle to make a profit and the ESG trend fades quicker than a fake sun-tan, James Wood asks whether sustainability still matters in payments. Despite all the negative... read more