09 Aug 18 @ 14:33

Use of P2P mobile payment apps, such as PayPal and Venmo, vary significantly by generation, according to a new survey from The Manifest. 29 percent of millennials (18 to 34 years... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:02

It has been a busy couple of months for deals within the payments world. PCM rounds up the latest news and looks behind the headlines. Consolidation in the payments industry... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 15:03

The long tail of small and medium-sized businesses wags a long way down. Small merchants often make up the biggest group in an acquirer portfolio. They generate the most profit... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:34

It all started with Amazon one-click in 1995. Now different buy buttons are widespread across the web. PayPal remains the most pervasive buy button online, with 67 percent of top... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:14

Internet and digital technologies introduced a new era of smart stores focused on shoppers and responsive to their changing needs and wants. Smart store technologies, such as artificial intelligence, augmented... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 10:06

Car makers, Big Tech and suppliers are all jostling to own customer relationships and data in the era of the connected car. Sound familiar? Everything is miscellaneous but somehow connected.... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:17

More than 30 US banks and credit unions unveiled a unified person-to-person money transfer service in mid-June. Known as Zelle, the service covers around 86 million US mobile-banking customers and... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 04:50

Following the European Banking Authority’s consultation paper on strong customer authentication, the future for operators in Europe looks uncertain. Since the introduction of 3-D Secure for card-based e-commerce payments in... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:27

PAYPAL’S P2P PAYMENT service Venmo is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. PayPal has acknowledged the situation in an SEC filing: “On March 28th, 2016, we received a Civil... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:31

In a strategic attempt to claim their share of e-commerce sales worth more than €40 billion each year, the German private and cooperative banks have launched their own online payment... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:44

In theory, the Internet of Things (IoT) could be the future of technology and a game-changer for many industries. But what are the implications for the payments industry? From industrial... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 17:10

After a trial in selected US cities, the Facebook Messenger P2P service is now live to US users nationwide. Facebook’s P2P feature allows users to send and receive payments via... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 17:03

Germans don’t like to buy sight unseen. Or at least they don’t like to pay for the goods without seeing them first. Invoice is still the most common payment method... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 16:52

Despite the fact that PCM readers have known for weeks that Apple Pay was to launch in the UK on 14 July 2015 – it did launch. However, depending on... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 17:00

PayPal has revealed Nigeria is its second largest market in Africa. Malvina Goldfeld, Head of business development, sub-Saharan Africa at PayPal told ITWeb Africa that South Africa remains the company’s... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 16:54

New research by PayPal in collaboration with the market research company Ipsos, reveals that m-commerce is growing at nearly three times the rate of overall ecommerce at a global level.... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 16:44

Four out of five global retailers and other merchants failed interim tests to determine whether they comply with payment card data security standards (PCI DSS), putting them at increased risk... read more

03 Dec 14 @ 11:54

Card payments continue to be central to much human activity. However, new technologies, the internet, new legal frameworks, card fraud, and other competing payment services have challenged and transformed the... read more

02 Oct 14 @ 15:36

E-commerce giant Amazon has made its widely anticipated move into the burgeoning mPOS market by launching a dongle and app-based solution with a pricing strategy that undercuts rivals Square and... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 21:53

Regulators in the Asia-Pacific region are looking at rolling out a SEPA-style single payment area, but what will be the challenges of such a project in one of the most... read more