02 Feb 16 @ 10:20

BlackBerry Messenger users in Africa will be able to transfer money or airtime within BBM. BlackBerry has partnered with Interswitch Ltd, Nigeria’s largest payment processor, to expand its mobile payments... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:20

Deutsche Bank is trialling a system that analyses how people touch and hold their mobile devices to authenticate users. The bank hopes that the technology will free customers from the... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:19

India was on track to surpass half a billion mobile subscribers by the end of 2015, according to The Mobile Economy: India 2015 published by the GSMA. 13 percent of... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:18

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said that 2015 would be the year of Apple Pay. As it turned out, 2015 was the year of mobile payments initiatives generally as technology... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:16

The merchant payment landscape has changed a lot over the last few years. New Payment Service Providers (PSP) have entered the market, new payment schemes have been introduced, smart phones... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:15

The European Payments Council (EPC) and Cards Stakeholders Group (CSG), a multi-stakeholder group comprising retailers, vendors, processors, cards schemes, published version 7.1 of its ‘Volume’ in December 2015. First published... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:14

Russia has launched its own domestic payment system, aiming to boost its financial independence and compete with international payment systems, such as Visa and MasterCard. The Bank of Russia and... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:13

Hackers behind the JPMorgan Chase attack also breached a risk management company retained by various parties in the card payments industry, according to federal authorities in New York. The 68-page... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:12

Sweden can currently claim to be a world leader in cashless trading, according to a recent study from KT-Royal Institute of Technology. There are less than 80 billion Swedish crowns... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:08

1-in-3 card transactions undertaken in the face-to-face environment globally between July 2014 and June 2015 used EMV chip technology, according to official figures released by technical body EMVCo. The 37... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 16:02

09 December 2015 marked a significant date for interchange rates across Europe as all EU countries had to align their domestic rates, in accordance with the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR).... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:53

European consumers aged 16 to 74 ordering goods or services via the internet in 2015 was 53 percent, up from 30 percent in 2007, according to data from Eurostat. The... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:51

Visa Europe ended months of speculation by confirming in early November 2015 that it would sell its European operation to Visa Inc in a deal worth €21.2 billion. The price... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:44

In theory, the Internet of Things (IoT) could be the future of technology and a game-changer for many industries. But what are the implications for the payments industry? From industrial... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 11:19

There is no shortage of data in payments. Yet for too long the payments industry may have suffered from being data-rich but insight-poor. PCM attempts to go beyond the hype... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 09:58

The final quarter of 2015 saw various high-profile mergers and acquisitions within the European payments industry — all aimed at serving the omni-channel needs of customers. French processor Worldline announced... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 15:54

Non-cash payment volumes are expected to continue to grow strongly in 2014, according to the World Payments Report 2015 from Capgemini/Royal Bank of Scotland. Volumes are projected to grow at... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 15:53

The recent publication of cybercrime statistics by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the German Federal Criminal Office, raises almost as many questions as it answers. As with any official cybercrime statistics, perhaps... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 15:50

The power within the payment value chain in Asia is shifting to Gen Y consumers aged 25-34, a new study finds. Consumers are increasingly drawn to new payment methods, such... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 15:48

South Korea’s cards and payments market is one of the most competitive and attractive in Asia Pacific, according to a new report. The market could almost be considered over-served with... read more