08 Apr 19 @ 13:18

A late 2017 McKinsey study warned payments firms should be more worried about “Big Tech” than fintechs as a threat to their businesses. Since then, Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 13:06

Growing numbers of countries are rebuilding their national payments infrastructures (NPI), including the UK, Australia, India, Canada and Singapore. PCM Editor James Wood looks at what’s gone right and wrong,... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:18

Driven by contactless card payments and by increased card usage, in 2017 the number of card payments continued to grow across the 33 countries covered by our Yearbook. POS payments... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:48

The World Payments Report 2018 from Capgemini and BNP Paribas predicts non-cash transactions will accelerate over the next five years to reach a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.7... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:42

The 2018 edition of FIS’s annual “Flavour of Fast” report has revealed a world in full migration towards faster payments. As part of this annual study, FIS produces a ranking... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:39

The major card networks dominate the modern payments landscape, and have been a driver of global commerce over the last fifty years. The last few years’ statistics confirm this dominance... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:35

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are already the buzz-words of the next decade in almost every walk of life, from medicine to product design and financial services. But when... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 06:43

Mobile wallet adoption in Asian markets like China, India and Taiwan is much higher than their Western counterparts such as the US, the UK and Germany. According to a new... read more

01 Jun 18 @ 10:01

Nearly 2.1 billion consumers worldwide will use a mobile wallet to make a payment or send money in 2019, up nearly 30 percent from 1.6 billion recorded at the end of... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 13:54

Retailers have been asking themselves and their vendors for some time how to get to omni-channel. “I wouldn’t start from here” is the flippant response. Yet retailers do start here.... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 13:24

Chinese mobile payment transactions reached a record 81 trillion yuan ($12.8 trillion) between January and October 2017, driven by huge number of consumers and merchants who have looked to more convenient... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:46

Ripple in partnership with a consortium of 61 Japanese banks has developed a payments app that settles transactions instantly via Blockchain technology. Ripple says that the ‘Money Tap’ app will... read more

01 Feb 18 @ 11:33

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2016. This was supported by the rollout of contactless technologies,... read more

31 Jan 18 @ 14:38

New data from Alipay shows 82 percent of the transactions on its platform in 2017 were made via mobile payments, mostly through smartphones. This ratio is said to be an... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:17

Digital payments are growing rapidly in Asia, fuelled by increasing smartphone ownership and growing access to the internet. An increasing array of solutions such as digital wallets, mobile payment apps... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:25

Six of the major Dutch banks – ABN Amro, ASN Bank, ING, Rabobank, Regiobank and SNS – are to launch Payconiq, a mobile payment app this summer. Payconiq will allow... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:33

One-in-four European internet users shops online weekly, according to research from Mastercard. Although uptake of e-commerce across Europe is high, there are interesting differences country to country around how often... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 16:14

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, we examine payments in the world’s largest country. How do Russians pay today? And given the state bank dynamic, a new domestic card... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 14:02

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2015. This was supported by the roll-out of new technologies,... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:42

Kohl’s, a US department store chain, has witnessed a 70 percent increase in enrolment with user transactions doubling over the same period for its payment app. Kohl’s Pay, a QR code-based... read more