09 Aug 23 @ 11:12

Last month Payments Cards & Mobile covered news that the NFC Forum and its members launched its technical roadmap outlining its ambitions to extend NFC Standards to support additional NFC... read more

29 Jul 23 @ 09:00

A study from Grand View Research suggests that more than half of US businesses will be using soft POS systems by 2030 as both SMEs and large corporates take advantage... read more

18 Jul 23 @ 11:30

Point of Sale (POS) payments have come a long way since the introduction of the first credit card in the 1950s. Today, consumers have a plethora of payment options to... read more

18 Jul 23 @ 11:07

Block has hit Visa and Mastercard with a new interchange fees antitrust lawsuit that alleges the payment companies conspired to overcharge the Square payment platform, causing higher retail prices paid by... read more

17 Jul 23 @ 12:13

In an earlier article I looked at how card numbers and spending on cards grew well above long-term trends across Europe last year – and why this happened. Hans Sjölund,... read more

17 Jul 23 @ 10:47

Back in September 2022, 1,668 retailers and more than 200 trade organisations urged the US Congress to pass the The Credit Card Competition Act, which gives merchants a choice in... read more

14 Jul 23 @ 11:20

2022 was a somewhat paradoxical year for e-commerce. History was made as online retail sales surpassed $5 trillion for the first time, and the market saw more businesses “go global”... read more

14 Jul 23 @ 10:37

The highly anticipated Apple Tap to Pay technology, which turns an iPhone into a SoftPOS reader, has finally been launched in the UK. Apple announced that Tap to Pay has... read more

13 Jul 23 @ 09:57

After much anticipation, the European Commission (EC) has published its proposed revisions to EU payment services legislation, as well as a proposal on Open Finance/data access in the financial services... read more

13 Jul 23 @ 09:37

A new report from BIS presents the results of a survey of 86 central banks conducted in late 2022 about their involvement in central bank digital currencies work, as well... read more

11 Jul 23 @ 12:16

 Justt has released findings from a new study pinpointing a worrying trend in consumer chargeback behaviours impacting merchants in the United Kingdom and the United States. The research shows that... read more

11 Jul 23 @ 10:29

A year after announcing that it had selected Nexi as its technology partner for the rollout of Synch Payments, the Irish Bank alliance has run into further regulator road bumps... read more

10 Jul 23 @ 12:41

Amid mounting problems for Revolut which include accounting errors and the very slow acceptance of its highly anticipated banking licence in the UK, a flaw in its US payment system... read more

07 Jul 23 @ 13:25

With all the noise around the impending opening up of the newest payment rails in the US, we ask “What is the difference between the Federal Reserve’s new instant payments... read more

06 Jul 23 @ 15:28

FIS has agreed to sell a majority stake in its merchant payments arm Worldpay to private equity firm GTCR for up to $18.5 billion – one of the largest corporate... read more

06 Jul 23 @ 09:49

“Debit card or credit?” Not too long ago, the question was a ubiquitous refrain from store clerks nationwide. If asked today, the question would be more complicated. That’s because US... read more

05 Jul 23 @ 16:45

Recent weeks have seen a slew of bad news about the ongoing scandal of rising payments fraud – especially in the online environment. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Oxford... read more

05 Jul 23 @ 11:58

Banking leaders are struggling to balance experience, compliance, and security goals says BioCatch which has released the findings of a new study conducted by Forrester Consulting, that reveals the reality... read more

04 Jul 23 @ 16:17

In our ongoing quest to get behind the hype, we consider Data Analytics and how much of a benefit this gives banks, service providers and retailers when it comes to... read more

04 Jul 23 @ 12:50

Today, the monetary system stands at the cusp of another major leap. Following dematerialisation and digitalisation, the key development is tokenisation – the process of representing claims digitally on a programmable platform. This can... read more