13 Oct 25 @ 12:27
Vipps MobilePay, the Nordic region’s dominant mobile wallet, has announced a partnership with Open Banking provider Tink to bring Pay by Bank functionality to its Finnish users. The move strengthens... read more
31 May 24 @ 13:27
Payment services innovation like Pay by Bank and Buy Now Pay Later are expanding the options for shoppers and merchants, giving competition to incumbent card issuers. Long-dominant card payment schemes... read more
31 May 24 @ 11:29
National Australia Bank (NAB) have launched a new partnership with Banked to accelerate the number of Australian merchants adopting and integrating Pay by Bank, Account-to-Account (A2A) payments solutions. The partnership... read more
05 Aug 25 @ 08:59
HSBC has made a strategic equity investment in Token.io in a move that significantly strengthens their existing partnership and reinforces both parties’ ambitions to mainstream account-to-account (A2A) payments across the... read more
11 Feb 25 @ 11:54
Account to account (A2A) payments are making strides and 2025 looks to be the year they will truly take off. Between Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) and other A2A solutions, apps... read more
22 Oct 24 @ 14:10
Open banking in the UK and Europe was introduced in 2018, with regulations mandated by the EU’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). Six years later, has it caught on in... read more
14 Aug 24 @ 08:50
Europe’s banks and payment providers have plenty on their plate to manage when it comes to upcoming regulatory change, quite aside from their own reinvention and digital transformation strategies. A... 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
21 Apr 22 @ 09:47
New data from the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) shows products in-market and user numbers accelerating. Meanwhile, major European markets such as France and Germany are moving from strategy... read more
30 Jul 15 @ 16:44
Customers of the Barclays Pingit mobile payment app will be among the first to access a new UK bank account transfer service from October 2015. Barclays joins HSBC, first direct,... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more