20 Sep 17 @ 14:28

From virtual mobile wallets to peer-to-peer money transfer apps, there are an increasingly diverse number of ways to pay, beyond the old medium of cash. And the geographic scope of... read more

15 Sep 17 @ 09:14

Technical body EMVCo launched version two of its EMV Payment Tokenisation Specification – Technical Framework in September. The market has evolved rapidly since v1.0 was launched in 2014 to address... read more

13 Sep 17 @ 11:20

Technology drove the first client experience (CX) revolution when advances in computer processing power allowed the early pioneers to develop data driven marketing policies. Now we believe emotional experience (EX)... read more

31 Jul 17 @ 15:30

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

04 Jul 17 @ 09:37

From today, the finance and banking industry operating in the UK will be represented by a new trade association, UK Finance. UK Finance will represent over 300 firms in the... read more

20 Jun 17 @ 19:43

A new study from Ovum, has attempted for the first time to quantify the detrimental effect Instant Payments and PSD2 will have on traditional credit and debit card payments. Instant Payments,... read more

06 Jun 17 @ 12:12

What is a bank? The definition is in flux. As the regulatory-driven Open Banking agenda powers innovation and accelerates the fragmentation of a heavily concentrated banking market, incumbent banks must... read more

30 May 17 @ 10:53

Just a week after the R3 group took a record funding round, the Bank of Canada has said distributed ledger technology, a new approach for processing transactions that is being... read more

25 Apr 17 @ 14:23

Six of the major Dutch banks – ABN Amro, ASN Bank, ING, Rabobank, Regiobank and SNS – say they will launch Payconiq, a mobile payments app this summer. The app,... read more

28 Mar 17 @ 10:37

First Annapolis has been closely monitoring European payment card products since October 2015 to identify issuers’ reactions to interchange regulation implemented in December 2015, and to track the evolution of... read more

21 Mar 17 @ 13:14

Global flows have been a common thread in economic growth for centuries, since the days of the Silk Road, through the mercantilist and colonial periods and the Industrial Revolution. But... read more

24 Feb 17 @ 10:45

A recent Gartner survey estimated that by 2020, the number of connected objects will increase by 30 times current levels, making IoT (Internet of Things) a huge untapped opportunity for retailers... read more

24 Feb 17 @ 10:35

İşbank, the biggest private bank in Turkey and provider of PSP services, is partnering with PPRO Group to enable İşbank to offer e-commerce merchants 13 local alternative payment methods worldwide. İşbank... read more

31 Jan 17 @ 10:13

In what has become a classic story in the financial technology space, the start-ups that were born out of a professed desire to disrupt the banking industry have evolved to... read more

26 Jan 17 @ 16:25

Today we are witnessing a convergence of industries in the mobile world as well as the undeniable influence of mobile on every aspect of our lives. The rise of handsets,... read more

17 Jan 17 @ 15:14

The amount of money laundered by foreign criminals is estimated to be as high as £100 billion a year and unlawful tax avoidance costs UK taxpayers as much as £2.7... read more

08 Jan 17 @ 15:30

Worldline has entered into a mutually beneficial co-development relationship with Hease Robotics, a French B2B service robot manufacturer, delivering interaction-oriented robots to the retail and hospitality industries. Worldline and Hease Robotics... read more

22 Nov 16 @ 12:23

A survey of financial institutions, FinTech start-ups and ecosystem participants across Europe, Africa and the Middle East has revealed that the convergence between the strategies of FinTechs and traditional financial... read more

22 Nov 16 @ 09:49

Global mobile commerce is now a huge 34% of all e-commerce transactions worldwide and is predicted to grow 31% in 2017. That’s over 200% faster than the growth of the... read more

27 Oct 16 @ 09:49

Nine out of 10 banking professionals surveyed at large US, European and Canadian commercial banks said their company is currently exploring the use of blockchain technology for payments, according to... read more