14 Dec 23 @ 16:02

Jeffries recently made a deep-dive analysis of the Nilson Report’s annual Top Merchant Acquiring ranking to compare top players, annual changes and track evolution of payments companies vs. banks. Post... read more

06 Jun 23 @ 09:56

RS2 says that Iceland’s most innovative bank, Landsbankinn, has launched its own merchant acquiring services using RS2’s payments processing platform.  Landsbankinn business customers can now concentrate all their payment services... read more

16 Dec 21 @ 12:17

Over the past decade, core payments processing has become commoditised, squeezing the margins of merchant acquirers. Their future growth is likely to come from providing merchants with value-added services and... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 09:35

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is launching a merchant acquiring service, NatWest Tyl, for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), heading back into the payments business, putting it in direct competition... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 09:00

Fiserv has announced plans to acquire full control of AIB Merchant Services (AIBMS), one of Ireland’s leading payment solution providers and a top-tier e-commerce acquirer in Europe. The move will... read more

14 May 25 @ 10:05

Barclays has agreed a complex strategic transaction with Brookfield Asset Management that could see the Canadian private equity giant assume majority ownership of the British bank’s payments business over the... read more

06 Jun 23 @ 09:56

JCB International says that merchants in multiple European markets will be able to accept JCB Cards, both at the physical point of sale and for e-commerce transactions with participating merchant... read more

05 Apr 23 @ 09:22

Nexi and Banco de Sabadell have reached an agreement to establish a long-term acquiring partnership in the Spanish market. According to the terms of the transaction, Nexi will acquire 80... read more

24 Aug 21 @ 08:27

Just seven month after Deutsche Bank announced it was looking for acquisitions and partnerships to move itself back into mainstream merchant acquiring, Germany’s largest bank, has announced a joint venture... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 09:22

OpenWay has successfully tested its digital payment platform WAY4 in Oracle Cloud. Financial institutions can now use this solution to drive payment innovations of any scale and optimise their operating... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:43

Although the USA remains the world’s largest single payments market and the world’s largest economy, it is a complex market which has proven slower to move to new technologies such... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 11:38

The merchant acquiring market in Europe is operating on solid grounds of continuous transaction growth, however the cost pressures in the industry increases are very high, primarily due to new... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:30

TSYS COMPLETED ITS acquisition of merchant solutions provider TransFirst in early April. The businesses have been combined under the TSYS brand and now serve around 645,000 US merchant outlets with... read more

24 May 16 @ 15:26

BANK OF AMERICA Merchant Services, the merchant acquiring arm of the US lender, will expand into Europe to service the needs of its global merchants. “Bank of America Merchant Services’... read more

05 Apr 16 @ 06:19

With a focus on merchant acquiring, the Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) event in Berlin in February connects all parts of the payment ecosystem. Indeed, the evolving and dynamic nature of... read more

04 Apr 16 @ 08:08

by Joyrene Thomas Consumer-facing technology brands have done much to reset customer expectations around speed, but also convenience, value and choice. Consumers can send and receive e-mail across the globe... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:16

The merchant payment landscape has changed a lot over the last few years. New Payment Service Providers (PSP) have entered the market, new payment schemes have been introduced, smart phones... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 09:58

The final quarter of 2015 saw various high-profile mergers and acquisitions within the European payments industry — all aimed at serving the omni-channel needs of customers. French processor Worldline announced... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 08:16

The card acquiring industry is undergoing huge changes on its way to reposition for the digital age. Banks, PSPs and monoline acquirers are working on their modern acquiring strategies to... read more

02 Oct 14 @ 14:51

The global payments and transaction-banking businesses continue to represent vital elements of the banking industry and the global financial services landscape. The importance of these businesses both as critical sources... read more