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18 Jun 20 @ 09:00
Planet has agreed to acquire 3C Payment. 3C Payment’s gateway, integration and terminal capabilities, when combined with Planet’s value added payment services, will create a unique platform in the payments... read more
20 Apr 20 @ 12:09
Payments Europe welcomes that the European Commission has started assessing the impact and consequences of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) and has written a paper to support this. The European... read more
06 Apr 20 @ 16:21
The Latin American e-commerce market in the countries selected for detailed study is worth $50 billion and is growing at a rate of 23% a year. Today, 34% of online... read more
03 Mar 20 @ 12:24
A love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more
14 Feb 20 @ 16:14
The love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more
13 Feb 20 @ 07:03
New research shows Discover remained the most widely accepted card scheme worldwide at the end of 2018. A new report from RBR research, Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to... read more
03 Feb 20 @ 18:35
Soaring stock prices are propelling Visa and Mastercard up the market value charts, where they currently rank 7th and 11th among companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index. The stock... read more
18 Dec 19 @ 15:45
On the face of it, all’s well in payments. Big firms are posting huge profits and experts forecast growth aplenty in the next decade. But growing numbers of companies complain... read more
18 Dec 19 @ 15:37
This year’s Money2020 USA in Las Vegas revealed an industry in transformation, with the digital revolution in full flight. Although new products and services were launched to support online transformation,... read more
18 Dec 19 @ 15:23
The world’s biggest card networks — including Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Financial Services — have joined forces to create a new one-click payments button, using the EMVCo’s EMV... read more
16 Dec 19 @ 16:55
New research shows that Discover remained the most widely accepted card scheme worldwide at the end of 2018. Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2024 shows that Discover cards... read more
31 Oct 19 @ 09:56
Kroger, the US’s largest grocer, says it will reverse three month interchange fee ban on Visa credit cards. “As of today, Kroger now accepts Visa credit cards at all our... read more
22 Oct 19 @ 11:31
The world’s biggest card networks — including Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Financial Services — have joined forces to create a new one-click payments button, using the EMVCo’s EMV... read more
06 Aug 19 @ 12:17
The rise of digital payments is one reason why some analysts predict heavy weather for the major card networks. Others include tighter regulation, possible disintermediation through open banking innovations, creaking... read more
03 Jun 19 @ 14:35
The German e-commerce market is predicted to increase by 9 percent this year, meaning the online retail industry could be worth €57.8 billion at the end of 2019. The latest... read more
07 May 19 @ 13:10
An article in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Bulletin of December 2018, accurately and comprehensively describes the history of the regulation of payment card surcharging in Australia. The RBA... read more
30 Apr 19 @ 11:37
The German e-commerce market is predicted to increase by 9% this year, meaning the online retail industry could be worth €57.8 billion at the end of 2019. The latest figures... read more
21 Jan 19 @ 13:17
In the UK customers are still paying hundreds of pounds as retailers are illegally surcharging for card payments at POS. Credit and debit card surcharging was banned in January 2018,... read more
27 Nov 18 @ 11:39
The major card networks dominate the modern payments landscape, and have been a driver of global commerce over the last fifty years. The last few years’ statistics confirm this dominance... read more
27 Nov 18 @ 11:30
Born around the turn of the millennium, a new generation of consumers has entered adulthood in 2018. They have never known a world without mobile phones and tablet computers, have... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more
