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

11 Oct 17 @ 14:34

PayPal has signed a deal with Visa that allows it to issue Visa-branded debit cards in Europe, as the company moves further into traditional retail banking territory. The two companies... 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 @ 10:37

Trend Micro has warned of a new point-of-sale (POS) malware dubbed MagikPOS, that is being used to attack POS systems belonging to merchants in the US and Canada. The MagikPOS... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:33

One-in-four European internet users shops online weekly, according to research from Mastercard. Although uptake of e-commerce across Europe is high, there are interesting differences country to country around how often... 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

05 Apr 17 @ 12:40

Issuing banks often ask about the merits of implementing mobile wallets from the ‘Pays’ (Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay) versus their own-brand wallets. To ‘Pay’ or not to... 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 @ 13:17

The UK payments strategy forum has delivered a new strategy to overhaul the nation’s payment systems, making it fit for the 21st century. In its official statement, the forum set... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:13

Prepaid cards are witnessing a fast rise in popularity, with the global market expected to grow to $535 billion by 2020, according to Euromonitor International Consulting Group. What was once... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:08

Mobile, online and social media channels have revolutionised consumers’ shopping behaviour, and sparked demand for new payment solutions that support multichannel commerce, Big Data, loyalty and targeted advertising. A new... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 12:10

The fact that the main markets in Latin America are experiencing an explosion in e-commerce growth is hardly news. However, as both internet and smartphone take-up continues, consumers now have... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:41

A consortium of US banks, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are rolling out a new P2P money transfer app to take on Venmo and other mobile... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:07

Mastercard says it has reached agreements with Microsoft, Google and Samsung to bring online payments capabilities to US-based users of their digital wallets via Masterpass. Starting early next year, Mastercard... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 09:40

Bill Gates claimed the password could not meet the challenge of keeping information secure and predicted its demise. That was back in 2004. Twelve years later, passwords are still very... read more