03 Mar 16 @ 16:08

MasterCard has reportedly drawn up plans for a takeover of Vocalink, the bank-owned company which handles £6tn-worth of payments in Britain each year. Sky News has learnt that MasterCard, which... read more

29 Feb 16 @ 12:02

The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the... read more

17 Feb 16 @ 16:02

TransferTo has partnered under a framework agreement with Vodafone Group to enable real-time international money transfers to M-Pesa Mobile Money accounts worldwide. Powered by TransferTo’s cross-border Mobile Money network, the... read more

25 Jan 16 @ 16:44

SWIFT says that 45 leading banks have signed up to its global payments innovation initiative, announced at the end of December 2015. The 45 participating firms include major transaction banks from... read more

21 Dec 15 @ 14:00

Nearly two months ahead of the 1 February 20161 regulatory deadline which will require Eurozone Payment Service Providers (PSPs) to process SEPA payments using only the IBAN2 – rather than the BIC... read more

10 Dec 15 @ 11:00

VocaLink has signed a contract with The Clearing House (TCH) to develop a national real-time payment service in the US. In October, the two companies announced they had signed a... read more

05 Nov 15 @ 08:57

Who can resist a deal? It seems nobody in the payments industry. Hot of the JV between Equens and Worldline, ACI Worldwide and PAY.ON, a leader in e-commerce payment gateway services, announced... read more

04 Nov 15 @ 14:24

According to a new report, China is one of the largest and most mature e-commerce markets in the world, increasing at a CAGR of 56.99% over the last four years,... read more

03 Nov 15 @ 10:47

The ways in which we pay and are paid are changing. Apple Pay has been launched in the UK, Barclays has announced that it will launch Android-based mobile payments later... read more

29 Oct 15 @ 11:56

European payments are being hit by several disruptive forces, including heightened levels of innovation, competition and regulation. One of the more significant changes is the European Union Regulation on the... read more

12 Oct 15 @ 07:22

Central bank regulators have proposed changes to stop the global payments system from fragmentation as banks scale back cross-border networks, blaming the cost of new regulation. Banks have long maintained links with other... read more

08 Oct 15 @ 12:15

Fenergo, a provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for institutional banks, has published key findings from new research commissioned from the Aite Group which suggests that financial institutions are struggling to... read more

21 Sep 15 @ 16:50

Cybercriminals are attacking the UK more than any other country making it the number 1 target for global cybercrime. One of the most interesting cybercrime trends in Q2 was the UK’s emergence... read more

08 Sep 15 @ 17:00

According to new research Europe`s share of global cross-border online retail sales is predicted to amount to 25% by 2025. The share of online shoppers making purchases directly from foreign online retailers... read more

04 Sep 15 @ 12:13

Visa has been penalised $18 million for attempting to block the expansion of its rivals in Australia. Justice Michael Wigney of the Federal Court handed down the penalty plus $2 million... read more

27 Aug 15 @ 14:04

Payment innovation in the retail industry is rapidly changing, driven by consumer adoption of mobile smart devices.  Because of recent well-publicized data breaches and payment card fraud, retailers have turned their... read more

20 Aug 15 @ 12:18

More and more merchants in Europe feel the need to offer their services via multiple channels (i.e. physical stores, online, mobile etc.), embracing the so-called omni-channel retail approach. “In terms... read more

19 Aug 15 @ 11:19

Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and PAY.ON have entered a strategic partnership that will enable payment service providers globally to offer bitcoin as a payment method via PAY.ON’s RESTful API-based payment... read more

11 Aug 15 @ 16:45

Cross-border payment transaction processor Earthport has forged an agreement to enable cross-border services for Japan Post Bank, one of Japan’s largest retail banks. The partnership will enable the bank to... read more

10 Aug 15 @ 16:31

A global scheme aimed at establishing a set of harmonised standards for cross-border real-time payments has published a first draft of ISO 20022 messages for review. The ISO Real-Time Payments... read more