03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

LG managed to launch its heavily delayed mobile payment service dubbed LG Pay on 2 June. The digital wallet competes with look-alike wallet offerings from Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:23

Apple is once again rumoured to be building its own money transfer service to take on the likes of Venmo. The company has recently held discussions with payments industry partners about... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:21

Android Pay has linked its mobile wallet service to a handful of mobile banking apps, giving consumers the ability add their cards more quickly to the mobile wallet. Customers of... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 16:14

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, we examine payments in the world’s largest country. How do Russians pay today? And given the state bank dynamic, a new domestic card... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 14:48

Although the mobile wallet ecosystem is maturing, in-store mobile payments have yet to take off. Consumer disinterest, coupled with delays in fully implementing the necessary infrastructure, are preventing mobile wallets... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 14:46

New research by Juniper, analysing the mobile wallet market, indicates that Europe is lagging behind almost every other region in its transaction value forecast. This is despite high levels of technology adoption and smartphone penetration.... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 10:13

The global smartphone installed base will grow from four billion in 2016 to more than six billion smartphones in use by 2020, according to new analysis released by IHS Markit. Messaging and communications... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 12:40

Issuing banks often ask about the merits of implementing mobile wallets from the ‘Pays’ (Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay) versus their own-brand wallets. To ‘Pay’ or not to... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 12:38

The mobile channel can facilitate nearly any type of consumer payment, often with greater convenience than before. This has attracted a growing legion of dedicated users, yet wherever legitimate payments... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 11:39

It has been almost 20 years since the paradigm shift in transaction transport, which made simple payment gateway integration available to an exploding community of web developers. Payment gateways became... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 11:26

More than 12 European countries will have adopted the Visa Token Service by the end of this year, says the card giant. Tokenisation makes mobile and online payments more secure... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 14:02

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2015. This was supported by the roll-out of new technologies,... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:01

First Annapolis recently estimated current in-app mobile payments volume at €60 billion and €125 billion in Europe and North America respectively. US consumers clearly set the trend for mobile usage,... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 11:38

According to Visa’s 2016 Digital Payments Study, the number of consumers regularly using a mobile device – smartphone, tablet or wearable – to make mobile payments has tripled in the... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:47

PAYWORKS HAS LAUNCHED Pulse, a next generation payment gateway technology, simplifiying in-person card payments by making it quick, easy and cost-efficient for developers to integrate card readers into their point... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:21

GOOGLE IS RUMOURED to be launching the Android Pay, digital payment service, using smartphones in Japan as early as autumn, in cooperation with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, sources close to... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:14

FIRST ANNAPOLIS RECENTLY completed the third edition of its semi-annual Study of Mobile Banking & Payments tracking consumer adoption and use of mobile banking and payments products. Given the energy... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:12

ONLY FIVE PERCENT of banks and other financial institutions are aware that the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) will require open access to customer accounts, according to a UK law... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

PULSE DEBIT CARD issuers saw card performance metrics in 2015 hold steady, according to a recent study. However the adoption of mobile payments and EMV chip migration has been disappointing.... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 10:00

SANTANDER UK HAS announced that it is experimenting with international Blockchain payments. The lender is allowing transfers of between £10 and £10,000 in any of three currencies (GBP, EUR or... read more