11 Oct 21 @ 08:45

Global cross-border payment flows are expected to reach $156 trillion in 2022. This trillion-dollar cross-border payments market is being shaken up by a rush of new entrants that promise to... read more

08 Oct 21 @ 12:06

The pandemic affected business as usual in all sectors. But in the payments industry, business hasn’t been usual for years. So, when lockdowns, supply chain interruptions, and economic uncertainty consumed... read more

05 Oct 21 @ 16:11

UK-headquartered brands hold higher revenue expectations of embedded finance than their European counterparts, according to a new report. Over the next five years, UK brands expect to generate £230.48 billion... read more

04 Oct 21 @ 15:39

“Acceleration”, “investment” and “hypergrowth” have all been words associated with the global FinTech industry this year. After bubbling away beneath the surface, building momentum, global investment in the FinTech sector... read more

29 Sep 21 @ 12:01

One of the key motivations behind Open Banking has been to enable the growth of alternative payment methods to cards. A new report demonstrates that the policy drivers, the industry... read more

24 Sep 21 @ 11:17

The 2021 iteration of the Domestic Payments Jury Report shows domestic schemes morphing into new payments channels in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – and challenging our perception of what it means... read more

24 Sep 21 @ 09:54

The Payments Survey is an annual publication of the BRC (British Retail Consortium) measuring the sales volumes and values of different payment channels employed by retailers across the UK. Conducted... read more

20 Sep 21 @ 16:56

Another day, another headline telling us account-to-account and “faster” or instant payments are taking over across Europe. In March this year, Swedish account-to-account specialist Trustly said its payments volumes were... read more

17 Sep 21 @ 16:06

The FinTech sector – often hyped as the answer to banks’ digitisation woes – demonstrated resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, with leading FinTechs recording double-digit growth despite sector-wide operational and... read more

06 Sep 21 @ 19:55

Across the world, digital payments are now synonymous with mobile payments, with the rate of adoption directly linked to access to smartphones and telecoms networks. The furious growth in digital... read more

12 Aug 21 @ 10:06

Request to Pay – a new standard for requesting a payment – is being built on top of existing payment infrastructure throughout Europe. With a patchwork of existing account-to-account solutions... read more

17 Jun 21 @ 09:42

Credit cards are the most used payment method for e-commerce purchases in Latin America. But that doesn’t mean these are the preferred payment methods in the region – only that... read more

16 Jun 21 @ 12:02

UK Finance has released its 2021 Payments Market Report, an analysis of all forms of payments over 2020 showing the impact the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant lockdowns had on the... read more

07 Jun 21 @ 16:27

The Bank of England has published a Discussion Paper which aims to broaden the debate around new forms of digital money and seek views on the Bank’s emerging thoughts on... read more

04 Jun 21 @ 09:39

Payments can fail for multiple reasons. The challenge merchants face is understanding why. The best way to gain that understanding is to have access to the response codes generated by... read more

17 May 21 @ 16:14

Horst Forster is a European payments expert with decades of experience in payments consulting and financial technology research. He runs PCM’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks, as well as working on... read more

17 May 21 @ 16:04

Amid rising hype about mobile wallets, P2P FinTech challengers and QR-code payments, this year’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks show a card segment in robust health, with business growing strongly.... read more

10 May 21 @ 13:57

More than eight in ten consumers (86%) say that their payments habits have changed since the start of the pandemic, with 59% trying a new payment method for the first... read more

25 Mar 21 @ 18:46

K3 Business Technology Group has released new research into the UK’s shopping preference. It revealed that 51% of customers are clear that they want to avoid store assistants. Instead, shoppers... read more

23 Mar 21 @ 18:09

For several decades, incumbent banks have held a comfortable leadership position in payments. But the rapid growth of digital payments has signalled opportunity for new market entrants to attack this... read more