06 Aug 19 @ 11:23

According to a new report by Yandex.Money, Russian customers are noticeably using contactless payment methods to pay for purchases: the number of payments made with smartphones has increased nearly threefold... read more

03 Jun 19 @ 15:03

In early April, Apple launched the world’s first digital credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. Industry opinion on the strategic and operational benefits of this move is... read more

03 Jun 19 @ 14:54

GATE (Global Acceptance Transaction Engine) has released its Mobile Wallet Trends Annual Report, highlighting trends in both mobile wallet and mobile payment usage across global markets. Mobile wallets are still... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 14:22

Forecasts predict that by 2022, just 17 percent of global payments will be made by cash. Meanwhile, digital and mobile wallet usage will continue to rise, accounting for 28 percent... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 13:18

A late 2017 McKinsey study warned payments firms should be more worried about “Big Tech” than fintechs as a threat to their businesses. Since then, Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:33

Digital and mobile wallets have been spoken about in the industry for many years. Since their inception, the payments industry in particular has paid close attention to the underlying technologies... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:18

Driven by contactless card payments and by increased card usage, in 2017 the number of card payments continued to grow across the 33 countries covered by our Yearbook. POS payments... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 06:46

Consumer desire for convenience is reshaping the retail sector, where retailers are scrambling to offer a seamless shopping experience with the latest technologies such as self-service checkout systems and contactless... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:43

Although the USA remains the world’s largest single payments market and the world’s largest economy, it is a complex market which has proven slower to move to new technologies such... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:47

Instead of counting notes and coins or entering a PIN, mobile payments on smartphones have the potential to become a popular method of payment in Germany. Google Pay is already... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:33

Stripe, the mobile payments provider and disruptor, is set to launch Stripe Issuing, a platform for creating, distributing, and managing physical and virtual cards via APIs. According to the firm,... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:30

Kroger has made good on its threat to stop accepting Visa credit cards, the culmination of a dispute over the interchange fee retailers pay to card networks for each transaction... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:28

The number of people using mobile contactless payment, such as Apple Pay or Google Pay, will continue to grow to more than 760 million by 2020, with Apple’s digital wallet leading the way, according... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:27

By the end of this year, a quarter of US smartphone users — 55 million people to date — over the age of 14 will make an in-store mobile payment,... read more

01 Feb 18 @ 11:33

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2016. This was supported by the rollout of contactless technologies,... read more

01 Feb 18 @ 09:27

As the recently launched iPhone X makes mobile payments even easier with facial recognition, MoneySuperMarket reveals that a quarter (23 percent) of Generation Z predicts physical cards will soon be obsolete as... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 10:06

Car makers, Big Tech and suppliers are all jostling to own customer relationships and data in the era of the connected car. Sound familiar? Everything is miscellaneous but somehow connected.... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 14:47

Samsung Pay has capitalised on its home advantage and processed ten trillion won ($8.8 billion) in accumulated transaction volume in South Korea, the company announced. The service was launched in... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:45

While Asia remains home to most payments innovation, Europe has leapfrogged Africa, North America and Latin America into second place, findings from the Global Payments Innovation Jury Report 2017 reveal.... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:17

More than 30 US banks and credit unions unveiled a unified person-to-person money transfer service in mid-June. Known as Zelle, the service covers around 86 million US mobile-banking customers and... read more