05 Jan 21 @ 19:54

Amidst all the hype about new payments methods and channels, it’s easy to ignore smaller, single-market players – but to do so would be a mistake. Domestic payment schemes accounted... read more

06 Oct 20 @ 15:11

P27 Nordic Payments Platform, after having registered interest in 2019, has signed an agreement to acquire Bankgirocentralen BGC AB (Bankgirot), Sweden’s only clearing house for mass payments. Bankgirot, established in... read more

03 Mar 20 @ 12:24

A love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more

14 Feb 20 @ 16:14

The love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more

04 Feb 20 @ 10:14

Independent research conducted for the Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks suggests that account-to-account digital payments may be starting to replace card payments in some of the world’s most advanced payments... read more

28 Oct 19 @ 17:06

Senior executives, commentators and analysts all agree – a workable digital identity is key to next-generation payments. Without functioning digital ID, the payments revolution will stall. But as state-sponsored national... read more

05 Aug 19 @ 14:05

The global Real-Time Payments (RTP) market size was valued at 6.90 billion in 2018 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 29.3% from 2019 to 2025. RTPs are... read more

04 Mar 19 @ 12:42

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 PCM’s Payment Card... read more

23 Jan 19 @ 11:57

Across the 33 countries covered in the European Payments Yearbook, cards in issue (+3.2%), and POS terminals by number (+7.3%) showed remarkable growth rates again while the ATM terminal estate... read more

15 Jan 18 @ 12:52

November saw the launch of new instant payment schemes in the US and Eurozone. The main commercial banks in the US are behind RTP®, and nearly 600 payment institutions from... read more

01 Nov 17 @ 09:18

While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more

23 Aug 17 @ 14:14

In today’s digitally-driven society, being able to access your money when you want, from any device, is no longer a luxury but a necessity. In fact, being able to quickly... read more

16 Nov 16 @ 10:37

Automatia says it has launched Finland’s first real-time mobile payments platform based on a multi-banking platform, named Siirto. Tieto has designed and implemented the service. Siirto is an open payment... read more

22 Jun 16 @ 10:24

At the recent Apple developer conference Apple presented the redesigned and refreshed App Store. At the same time Apple has changed the terms & conditions for app developers. One change especially... read more

23 Oct 15 @ 13:02

Sweden is on track to becoming the world’s first cashless society, thanks to the country’s embrace of IT, as well as a crackdown on organized crime and terror, according to... read more