27 Mar 14 @ 22:58

PayPal and Samsung have followed Apple’s lead by extending their collaboration with a new biometric feature that will allow users of the new Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone to use fingerprint... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

PayPal announced PayPal Beacon, a low-powered Bluetooth device that will allow consumers to automatically check-in at local stores. The company describes it as a “complete hands free experience” that will... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 13:05

The way British consumers choose to pay has always been a mirror of wider economic, cultural and technological trends. From chip-and-PIN’s steady rise in the early 2000s to the mobile... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 12:36

A new study from Juniper Research predicts a dramatic surge in the global value of Soft POS (point-of-sale) transactions, forecast to grow from $23.9 billion in 2025 to an impressive... read more

24 Mar 25 @ 09:40

As we all know, the payments landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as new technologies, regulatory shifts and evolving consumer preferences redefine how transactions occur. That does not mean that... read more

24 Mar 25 @ 07:22

Affirm is making a significant play in the debit card market through a new BNPL partnership with FIS. This collaboration will allow banks that use FIS’s debit processing services to... read more

11 Feb 25 @ 11:04

The recent decision by Apple to grant third-party developers access to its NFC chip, along with Vipps MobilePay’s historic launch in Norway, has reignited discussions about the potential for banks... read more

11 Feb 25 @ 11:01

Digital payments are rapidly reshaping commerce and consumer behaviour across the US and Europe. Findings from McKinsey’s ninth annual Digital Payments Survey reveal nearly universal adoption of digital payment methods,... read more

22 Oct 24 @ 14:07

Figures vary as to the availability of crypto acceptance globally by merchants. In the sartorial style stakes, some bold moves have been made to advance the appeal and extol the... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:38

Reports coming out of Germany in recent months suggested that the German banks have lost patience with Giropay and its holding company Paydirekt GmbH. Shareholders of Giropay voted on the... read more

31 May 24 @ 14:50

Fresh off the press, Payments Cards & Mobile’s exclusive annual review of payments data covering the 33 European Economic Area (EEA) countries (27 member states plus UK, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland,... read more

02 May 24 @ 09:24

As apps and connected devices increasingly take centre stage in consumers’ lives, the appetite for a single app that seamlessly integrates banking, shopping and personal activities, the so called Super... read more

21 Feb 24 @ 10:27

Despite being more than 60 years old, it is thought that around 70 percent of large corporations – including those in the government, banking, finance, insurance and automotive industries –... read more

21 Feb 24 @ 09:59

As apps and connected devices increasingly take centre stage in consumers’ lives, the appetite for a single app that seamlessly integrates banking, shopping and personal activities, the so called Super... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 10:44

Payments Cards & Mobile Managing Editor James Wood says Elon Musk’s ambitions for Twitter face formidable obstacles. In 1999, a then-unknown Elon Musk purchased the web domain x.com and set... 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

06 Jun 23 @ 11:46

Fabrick and its subsidiary Axerve have released a new whitepaper, “Alternative payment solutions: how they are changing the payment scene”. The paper explores the ways in which alternative payments are... read more

06 Jun 23 @ 11:20

Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Bank of America and several other large US banks are set to launch a mobile wallet later this year linked to debit and credit cards. Early Warning... read more

05 Apr 23 @ 10:24

PCM’s exclusive research into payments markets in ten Eurasian countries reveals seismic change caused by the war in Ukraine. As our research makes clear, some markets are wearing the chaos... 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