11 Oct 17 @ 14:59

The UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, with £54.4 million in sales has announced that its current digital wallet app PayQwiq, is to be re-launched as Tesco Pay+. Launched in 2015, the... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 14:49

The widespread adoption of contactless in the UK was a gradual process but over the past few years use has grown exponentially, making the UK a leader in contactless payment.... 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

03 Aug 17 @ 06:16

Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report.... 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

06 Apr 17 @ 15:19

Forget rock-paper-scissors. When it comes to how Americans pay, it is card, paper followed by the two electronic-based systems some way behind. US consumers purchased $9.5 trillion worth of goods... 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

03 Feb 17 @ 13:25

Many in India were unprepared when prime minister Narendra Modi announced a surprise ban on higher denomination notes. The Rs500 and Rs1,000 rupee notes ceased to be legal tender overnight... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:23

Card payments accounted for more than two-thirds of all core non-cash payments in the US in 2015, according to a triennial Federal Reserve study. Card payments grew 19.9 billion from... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 11:33

Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts shows that the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Asia Pacific were the fastest growing regions for payment cards in 2015, with card numbers... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:19

ACCORDING TO GLOBAL Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, the total number of card payments worldwide increased by 15 percent in 2015 to 270 billion, almost double the eight... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:17

THE RISE OF third-party m-payments in China at the expense of credit and debit cards is threatening commercial banks’ access to the customer data viewed as crucial to newly emerging financial... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

PULSE DEBIT CARD issuers saw card performance metrics in 2015 hold steady, according to a recent study. However the adoption of mobile payments and EMV chip migration has been disappointing.... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 05:55

The largest UK banks are set for another windfall with the sale of the bank-owned payments company VocaLink to Mastercard for £700 million ($920 million). NEWS OF THE deal came... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 07:35

IT’S BEEN A busy 60 days in the world of mobile payments with further roll-outs, new entrants and a prominent withdrawal. PCM rounds up the latest state of Pay. HANDSET... read more

24 May 16 @ 15:57

WITH CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS increasing in popularity, MWR InfoSecurity has warned consumers to be aware of the risks of contactless technology. It also issued a reminder to retailers and banks that... read more

24 May 16 @ 15:44

THE MARKET FOR mobile payments in China is hotting up with no fewer than three new ‘Pay’ launches in as many months. Apple Pay launched with China Union Pay and... read more

24 May 16 @ 15:29

IOVATION AND AITE Group have developed an impact note entitled EMV: Issuance Trajectory and Impact on Account Takeover and CNP. The report calculates that card-not-present fraud – fraudulent transactions where... read more

05 Apr 16 @ 15:40

Payments UK, the trade association for the payments industry, has published a second report in its World Class Payments series, titled: How consumers around the world make payments. The report... read more