14 Dec 23 @ 15:48

NAKA has developed a new technology that bridges the gap between the traditional payment industry and the blockchain world. It encompasses a payment scheme running fully on smart contracts and... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 10:25

Summer 2023 has seen a bumper crop of good news for CBDCs, including transactions using the digital Yuan hitting $250 billion, a new CBDC consortium announced by Mastercard and the... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 10:23

The Managing Director of a global white-label infrastructure firm for payments, NuWeb, has told Payments Cards & Mobile that wearable technologies including biometric security features are the future of point-of-sale... read more

06 Jun 23 @ 13:06

As cross-border payment volumes grow and technology becomes more sophisticated, we look at high-risk and lower-volume markets to find out what’s happening. Is now the time for major international players... read more

05 Apr 23 @ 10:07

Recent thinking published by HM Treasury and the European Central Bank show divergence between the UK and European Union (EU) visions for digital currency. At present, the UK seems to... read more

16 Feb 23 @ 16:40

As the year turns and the dust settles on the crypto crash, it might be tempting to think crypto’s over. But think again: as of January 3, 2023, more than... read more

16 Feb 23 @ 16:21

We may be in the middle of a crypto winter, and digital assets might have lost two-thirds of their value. But that’s not stopping regulators preparing for a future crypto... read more

29 Dec 22 @ 04:23

From Open Banking and instant payments through the Next Big Thing in crypto, James Wood reads the cards to find out what’s coming next in the new year. Those who... read more

29 Dec 22 @ 03:48

Elon Musk has taken over as CEO of Twitter. There may be many reasons why the worlds nuttiest (richest) man paid $44 billion for the loss making enterprise including advancing... read more

25 Aug 22 @ 11:51

Cryptocurrencies have lost sixty percent of their value and are looking increasingly hobbled for the future. So what’s next for the digital currency dream of frictionless, fast and low-cost payments?... read more

26 May 22 @ 09:22

Credit card reward schemes have been in the doldrums for years. With “alt pays” such as account-to-account payments and crypto slowly replacing cards, we ask what’s happening to reward schemes,... read more

26 May 22 @ 06:50

In the last issue of PCM (March-April 2022) we reported on burgeoning interest among banks and governments in stablecoins – that is, cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged to a fiat... read more

21 Apr 22 @ 09:40

With more transactions per month, new stablecoins being launched and new regulatory frameworks coming to market in the next eighteen months, cryptocurrencies – and specifically stablecoins and Central Bank Digital... read more

17 Feb 22 @ 14:44

As cash use drops around the world and micro-merchants go digital, card payments are using more electricity than ever, to say nothing of crypto’s voracious energy appetite. James Wood looks... read more

27 Oct 21 @ 12:01

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are the latest buzzword in payments. While these digital instruments linked to blockchain might be rich in possibility, they’re also fraught with risk – as James Wood... read more

27 Oct 21 @ 11:48

Following the October 2020 launch of a “sand dollar” by the Bahamian Central Bank, other markets are making moves to normalise the use of cryptocurrencies in their economies with varying... read more

24 Aug 21 @ 08:33

CryptoRefills, in cooperation with Cointelegraph Research, has published the first global research on consumer adoption of cryptocurrencies for purchasing goods and services. This report, Cryptocurrencies in Retail: Consumer Adoption 2021,... read more

09 Jun 21 @ 04:09

Business is booming on the dark side of the internet, with everything from illegal drugs to fake ID and credit card details for sale. PCM Managing Editor James Wood dons... read more

09 Jun 21 @ 03:57

Citi Bank is reportedly considering taking its first steps into cryptocurrency markets after a surge in interest from clients. The group is the latest major bank to consider pushing into... read more

01 Apr 21 @ 13:49

Cryptocurrencies are going mainstream, despite continued talk of a bubble and crypto’s reputation as the province of libertarians, geeks and criminals. James Wood dons a fake hipster beard to find... read more