29 Jul 14 @ 22:29

Annual domestic card spending by UK consumers passed £0.5 trillion for the first ever time in 2013 as shoppers increasingly choose cards over cash, according to a report published by... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:27

Only 42% of UK SMEs currently offer customers the option of paying by card, despite card spending more than doubling in the last decade, according to research from Barclaycard.  SMEs... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:25

New research carried out on behalf of Kalixa Group shows only 2% of micro-businesses in the UK use mPOS to accept payments. It also identifies the number one barrier to... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:24

Telecom Italia is to equip small business customers with mPOS chip card readers as Italy enacts new legislation requiring firms to accept debit card payments for any transaction over €30.... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:23

This year’s mPOS World event, which took place in Frankfurt on 24-25 June and which was organised by the Empiria Group, welcomed over 240 attendees and 38 speakers from around... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:22

A wareness of contactless payments in the UK has made big strides over the last two years, according to the Contactless Payment Index results from eDigitalResearch. Over half (58%) of... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:18

Spain’s BBVA banking group has become the first global banking group to commercially launch mobile NFC payments based on the new cloud-based payment specifications from Visa. The new system will... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:15

ZapZap has partnered with Payzone to enhance their app-based mobile wallet, which will give the UK’s 5.8 million pay-as-you-go smartphone users the ability to top up their phones directly from... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:13

Apple’s announcement that developers will be able to use the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner for third-party apps is a revolutionary move for the financial services industry, according to digital banking... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:59

How will host card emulation technology drive usage of NFC and what are the implications for consumers, merchants and payment providers? Host card emulation (HCE) is the hot topic within... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:56

The launch of RuPay in India and plans for a Russian payment network indicate a resurgence in domestic schemes, but at what cost to the international players? While Europe’s banks... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:53

Regulators in the Asia-Pacific region are looking at rolling out a SEPA-style single payment area, but what will be the challenges of such a project in one of the most... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:52

As regulators around the world get to grips with bitcoin and other digital currencies which have sprung up over the last few years, the Institute of Economic Affairs think-tank argues... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:49

E-commerce giant Amazon is launching a subscription payments management service in order to leverage its 240 million-strong customer base. The new service will enable Amazon to become the mediator between... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:42

In a small step towards Apple’s payments ambitions, and in one giant leap for the Apple rumour mill, the high-tech firm has launched an iTunes-backed payments system — in Japan.... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:41

Visa and MasterCard have reached a compromise agreement with Russian officials that would allow the global payment networks to continue operating in the country. Russia’s finance minister, Anton Siluanov, said... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:40

Mobile banking specialist Monitise saw its share price plummet more than 15% on 9 July after the company issued a trading update stating that its revenue growth this year would... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:36

On 7 July, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the US District Court for the Easter District of New York began hearing arguments in a case against American Express (Amex), which the... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:34

More than half of UK consumers visit a branch at least once a month and only a quarter would consider using a purely digital bank, according to a survey from... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:31

Visa Europe is predicting an end to plastic payment cards as changing consumer preferences and new technologies take hold. The network is looking at how to overhaul security standards and... read more