16 Jul 13 @ 02:23

Government efforts to promote cashless transactions have contributed to the steady growth of the cards and payments industry in Azerbaijan up to 2012. According to Timetric, continued support from the... read more

16 Jul 13 @ 02:22

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) with presence in 17 markets, has chosen OpenWay’s WAY4 platform to upgrade and enhance the issuing and acquiring services offered by its European processing centre to... read more

11 Jul 13 @ 02:34

Braintree announced it will offer Venmo Touch to card issuers and mobile banking providers, delivering one touch mobile payments to their customers. Braintree is collaborating with Simple, a leader in online and mobile banking,... read more

02 Jul 13 @ 02:47

The cards and payments industry in Bulgaria is expected to expand over the next four years despite credit card fraud in the nation reaching its highest ever level last year.... read more

17 Jun 13 @ 00:00

Adyen announced findings from its inaugural Global Mobile Payments Index – taken from over 10 months of payments analysis – showing that worldwide mobile payments transactions on its platform have increased by 75%,... read more

17 Jun 13 @ 00:00

Visa Inc. sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a bid to stop the world’s largest retailer from bringing price-fixing claims over merchant swipe fees. Wal-Mart is among more than 7,000 retailers that dropped out... read more

12 Jun 13 @ 00:00

MasterCard has brought its near field communications (NFC)-based mobile payment service to Taiwan, in collaboration with mobile operator Chunghwa Telecom and four local banks, and is expected to be operational... read more

30 May 13 @ 00:00

Banks and financial institutions launching mobile wallets in the immediate future should expect to enter a hotly contested market, crowded with own-brand solutions that are limited to the delivery of... read more

29 May 13 @ 00:00

MPayMe a Hong Kong-based mobile specialist and First Data announced a strategic alliance to offer mobile payment solutions in key markets in Asia Pacific. MPayMe and First Data will work... read more

08 May 13 @ 00:00

FIS has been selected by Sainsbury’s Bank as the bank’s technology partner for all its retail banking operations. Under the terms of this strategic multi-year arrangement, FIS will provide real-time core... read more

07 May 13 @ 00:00

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has now completed the roll out of contactless payment to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores. The move cements M&S’... read more

07 May 13 @ 00:00

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is on the verge of buying out Lloyds Banking Group‘s 50% stake in its financial services arm Sainsbury’s Bank. Sainsbury’s Bank was set up as a joint venture between the... read more

03 May 13 @ 00:00

Authorize.Net, the small business solution from CyberSource, announced that small business merchants based in the UK can now use Authorize.Net’s popular payment platform to accept and manage bank card transactions,... read more

29 Apr 13 @ 00:00

The card networks are reporting progress among issuers and acquirers in the U.S. transition to EMV-chip cards, but some big retailers are still lashing out against the expectation that they... read more

23 Apr 13 @ 00:00

Within the next six months, 10% of retail banking customers surveyed globally will likely leave their bank and an additional 41% of customers say they are unsure if they will... read more

12 Apr 13 @ 00:00

Elavon and Banco Santander, an international financial institution operating in 10 major markets with more than 100 million clients serviced by 15,000 branches, today confirm the establishment of a joint... read more

11 Apr 13 @ 00:00

A number of players – particularly non-bank organizations – are actively marketing general-purpose prepaid cards to the unbanked and under-banked segments as a viable alternative to a checking account. According... read more

08 Apr 13 @ 00:00

Adyen announced that Monarch, the UK’s leading scheduled leisure airline and independent travel group, has chosen to roll out the Adyen payment solution across its online and mobile websites. The move... read more

08 Apr 13 @ 00:00

While the financial crisis and conservative consumer spending has hindered growth across all card categories, the cards and payments industry in Spain is expected to recover by 2017, with prepaid... read more

22 Mar 13 @ 00:00

The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published its first Report on the Migration towards the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), which describes the state of play of the migration... read more