09 Apr 18 @ 13:50

Since the 2008 financial crisis, trust in banks has slumped. Ten years on, how do banks and financial institutions re-build and maintain trusted relationships? And how do they compete against... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 13:39

The UK ATM network operator, LINK, is planning a phased 20 percent reduction in interchange fees over the next four years. This will start with a five percent cut to... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:58

A group of Canadian retailers are pushing for lower credit card fees from major payment networks amid a long-standing battle over what they claim are inflated rates. The two largest... 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

01 Feb 18 @ 09:50

Mastercard, Discover and American Express have all announced plans to drop signature at the point-of-sale signature in North America from April 2018. The Mastercard rule change will apply in Canada... 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 @ 14:12

Global non-cash transaction volumes grew 11 percent to reach 433 billion during 2014-15, the highest growth in a decade, according to the Capgemini World Payments Report 2017. Two regions fuelled... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:09

Visa has announced the results of an independent study examining the economic impact of cashless cities and increasing the use of digital payments in major cities around the world. The... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:03

China, boasted over $811.96 billion in e-commerce sales in 2016, 122 million outbound travellers, and a record number of students studying abroad. This has created a booming opportunity for global marketplaces, marketplace sellers, e-commerce... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 14:38

Post office organisations are the ultimate hybrid businesses, combining retail and financial services. With an enviable branch and logistics network at the heart of many communities, financial services via the... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 14:59

Consumers will soon be able to forget about PINs and frustratingly long 16-digit card numbers when shopping online and in the real world. Visa is pushing to make Australian banks... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:48

Passwords are no longer passing muster as a security or authentication method. The problem is quantity as much as quality. The average number of passwords registered to a single e-mail... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:40

Acquiring gambling merchants is high risk. Or at least this always used to be the case. But in a regulated industry quick to adopt new technology, where the house always... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:24

It is now almost 18 months since the introduction of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR). This covered a good deal more than the interchange fee caps and included substantial changes... 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

08 Jun 17 @ 12:30

The US Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by retailers to revive a $7.25 billion anti-trust settlement reached with Visa and Mastercard over claims that the networks fixed card... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

There are a lot of moving parts in the US payments landscape with the ongoing EMV migration to chip technology, growth in mobile and contactless payments, and the increasing need... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

A Danish banking collective, named Bokis, has become the first to offer a mobile payments product using the highly popular national debit card, Dankort. Bokis consists of 62 banks from... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:35

IBM Watson IoT and Visa announced the industry’s first collaboration that brings the point of sale (POS) to everywhere Visa is accepted, by allowing businesses to quickly introduce secure payment... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:32

Security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform, show that 78 percent are missing critical security patches, while are confirmed to have malware harvesting their customers’... read more