18 Feb 21 @ 11:19

Nearly six billion calls were made from fintech APIs to bank servers in the UK in 2020, and more than four million open banking payments were completed. Figures from the... read more

18 Feb 21 @ 10:17

Bitpanda is now taking pre-orders for their first physical product – the Bitpanda Card, facilitated by Visa. The card is linked to any asset in a user’s Bitpanda portfolio, allowing... read more

19 Oct 20 @ 03:42

Investors and intermediaries are flocking to Latin America, lured by high growth rates in everything from e-commerce to mobile wallets. But stubbornly high cash use, a low banked population and... read more

19 Oct 20 @ 03:39

The first half of 2020 saw fines for money laundering almost double compared to 2019. So are much-hyped Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques catching more crime – and can... read more

19 Oct 20 @ 03:20

Three months ago, PCM brought you the world’s first in-depth analysis of how the payments market has been affected by COVID-19. Now we offer fresh thinking on life in payments... read more

17 Aug 20 @ 15:30

BitPay has launched the BitPay Card, the first Mastercard Prepaid card for crypto users in the US. The card enables customers to instantly convert cryptocurrency into fiat currency, which is... read more

15 Jun 20 @ 04:32

New research from Deutsche Bank has gone against the grain of current thinking in payments by predicting both the continuation of cash payments – and what it calls “the extinction... read more

06 Apr 20 @ 12:53

Despite the best efforts of both crypto asset exchanges, banks and regulators, a major new study from CipherTrace has found that engaging with virtual asset exchanges is exposing banks to... read more

13 Feb 20 @ 07:06

The cyber attack on foreign exchange provider Travelex demonstrates the growing threat of ransomware and is a warning to financial services firms to step up their security. Tim Thurlings of... 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 @ 15:22

Worldline and Bitcoin Suisse, the oldest and largest crypto financial-services company in Switzerland, have signed a letter of intent for a partnership to offer cryptocurrency payment services to Swiss merchants... read more

14 Oct 19 @ 08:36

Since being shown the door by eBay in 2018, PayPal, once one of the most innovative digital payments companies in the world, has continued to perform well and dominate the... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 11:34

Facebook’s launch of a stablecoin named Libra, made with an array of blue-chip partners, has met with a tepid response from industry commentators. However, the announcement confirms blockchain’s real and... read more

03 Jun 19 @ 14:50

WhatsApp is rumoured to be developing a cryptocurrency wallet service, created by Wuabit, which allows users to make payments via Bitcoin along with other major digital currencies. The new service... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 13:40

Despite CEO Jamie Dimon labelling Bitcoin a fraud, JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US, has announced it has created and successfully tested its JPM Coin cryptocurrency this month.... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:12

Blockchain has been called the most over-hyped innovation in the world today, with the hysteria surrounding it sometimes compared to the infamous “dot.com” bubble of 1999-2000. PCM Editor James Wood... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:07

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:47

It has been an interesting few weeks in the P2P payments market. It all began when Snapchat  announced that it will cease Snapcash, its mobile P2P payments app for Snapchat,... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:40

During a lecture given in Germany in February 2018, Agustin Carstens, general manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), described Bitcoin as “a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:31

GRAFT (Global Real-time Authorisations and Funds Transfers), a blockchain payment network, has announced that it achieved its first end-to-end instant payment transaction (under 2 seconds) on the GRAFT Network. This... read more