14 Aug 24 @ 09:00

BaaS is lending itself to the success of marketplace vendors and small online businesses and the only way is up. Anna Milne explores the hype and speaks to the provider... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:58

APIs and Automation are the operative words for tier 2 and 3 banks navigating the narrowest of grounds between legacy and scalability. Anna Milne writes. In graduating from the legacy... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:55

It’s fair to say there is much education, progress and evaluation to be conducted within the field of CBDCs and digital currencies – so much to unpack that we are... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:53

Open banking, open finance and embedded finance and how the digital wallet and super app are at the beating heart of the evolution of payments and banking services. When so... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:51

The French payments scene, particularly in the acquiring space, is shoring up a very stable outlook indeed. In March Credit Agricole and Worldline announced their partnership in creating a new... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:50

Europe’s banks and payment providers have plenty on their plate to manage when it comes to upcoming regulatory change, quite aside from their own reinvention and digital transformation strategies. A... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:49

A lot has been happening in the realm of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and depending who you ask, latest developments are either surefire affirmation that the shopping phenomenon is... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:47

Amid ongoing and seemingly increasing incidences of fraud, it has been alarming to learn of a new wave of data theft of late. And it isn’t digital. I should be... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:44

Onboarding is a largely understated element in the noise around digitalisation. Financial providers themselves don’t tend to bemoan so-called abandonment rates in the same way as one hears about cart... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:42

Merchants tread a notoriously tricky tightrope trying to strike the balance between approval rates and false declines, check-out abandonment and conversions. As the e-commerce sector grows, stretches and proliferates, so... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:40

The $30 billion preliminary interchange fee settlement between Mastercard, Visa and retailers has been formally rejected by the US courts. The ruling means both Visa and Mastercard will have to... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:38

Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) has introduced the Secure Payments Act, which would require the Federal Reserve to pause its Regulation II Debit Card Interchange Fee proposal until it completes a... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:38

Reports coming out of Germany in recent months suggested that the German banks have lost patience with Giropay and its holding company Paydirekt GmbH. Shareholders of Giropay voted on the... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:16

There’s something interesting happening in the world of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB). And it could have a transformative impact on the scale and scope of this as-yet under-represented payment category.... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:15

Google has introduced three new Google Pay features that they say have been developed by listening to direct customer feedback. According to their website, shoppers tell them the three things... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:14

Mobey Forum has published its latest report, ‘Beyond Payments: Navigating the Next Generation of Digital Wallets’. This comprehensive report, produced by the organisation’s Digital Wallet Expert Group, provides an in-depth... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:13

This year’s Global Payments Report from Worldpay shows continued appetite for online shopping compared to Point of Sale (POS) payments – with implications for merchants, banks and payments intermediaries. Around... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:09

Klarna has announced the divestment of Klarna Checkout (KCO). The buyer is a consortium of investors led by Kamjar Hajabdolahi, CEO & Founding Partner at BLQ Invest. This strategic move,... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:05

Mastercard and Thought Machine, a cloud-native banking technology company, are advancing their partnership to deliver payments and core banking (critical back-end technology for product and account management and the customer... read more

31 May 24 @ 14:50

Fresh off the press, Payments Cards & Mobile’s exclusive annual review of payments data covering the 33 European Economic Area (EEA) countries (27 member states plus UK, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland,... read more