07 Aug 20 @ 09:05

Visa and Mastercard recently reported quarterly results. Visa reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue expectations had been hit, but the COVID-19 crisis continues to drive mixed spending trends, with... read more

09 Jul 20 @ 13:10

From Egypt and Jordan through to the Gulf, the Middle East has seen a lot of progress in payments. Yet some significant roadblocks remain, including rising fraud, enabling cards for... read more

20 Apr 20 @ 12:09

Payments Europe welcomes that the European Commission has started assessing the impact and consequences of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) and has written a paper to support this. The European... read more

19 Nov 19 @ 12:36

New research from Emerging Payments Association reveals that realtime payments are growing rapidly in the UK and deploying widely worldwide, signifying potential for business payments for banks and FinTechs. The... read more

09 Sep 19 @ 15:54

‘Data Lakes’ are gaining explosive traction with payments businesses in Europe and North America. Proponents say they offer a more flexible, scaleable and cheaper data storage solution than traditional data... read more

05 Aug 19 @ 16:43

Successive waves of Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals are “sunsetting” – no longer receiving software updates – leading to significant upgrade or replacement costs for retailers. Meanwhile, non-POS methods of payment are... read more

29 Jul 19 @ 10:42

The EMEA region is a patchwork quilt of cultures and languages, defined as much by its diversity as by the commonalities shared by geographical proximity. These unique factors create a... read more

04 Jun 19 @ 09:01

Never before has the importance of technology been greater in financial services. Digital banking solutions and apps have made their way into everyday life across Europe. A new study across... read more

03 Jun 19 @ 16:07

FIME has continued to innovate and adapt testing in line with the rapid digital transformation of the global payments industry. The new FIME Test Factory 4.0 platform enables payment players... read more

24 Apr 19 @ 12:15

Car makers, Big Tech and suppliers are all jostling to own customer relationships and data in the era of the connected car. Sound familiar? Everything is miscellaneous but somehow connected.... read more

02 Apr 19 @ 15:17

Different approaches to the regulation of new payments technologies is creating confusion and uncertainty for payments companies and consumers within different regions and between countries. This uncertainty risks impeding innovation... read more

02 Apr 19 @ 15:09

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

14 Mar 19 @ 12:45

That banks are struggling with complexity and how to manage competing priorities is nothing new. However, the growth of mobile and now IoT payments means that banks need a back-end... read more

17 Dec 18 @ 12:03

In response to open banking development in the European market and an increasing interest from countries outside EU, Tieto has launched an API Hub – a global test environment for... read more

22 Nov 18 @ 12:47

Retail banking is changing at a blistering pace and artificial Intelligence is helping to reshape financial services. Online only challenger banks like Monzo have shot from 50,000 to 750,000 customers... read more

16 Nov 18 @ 12:23

National Bank of Greece has replaced its legacy mainframe systems with WAY4, a modern, future-proofed platform from OpenWay. WAY4 will support increasing transaction volumes and accelerate the development of new... read more

31 Aug 18 @ 15:11

Deploying AI in the payments sector – With the global volume of online payments set to increase by almost 11% a year between 2015 and 2020 (and by as much... read more

27 Jul 18 @ 10:41

By 2020, nearly all smart devices including mobile phones, tablets and wearables will have some form of biometrics security enablement. By the same time, personal banking through mobile apps will... read more

23 Mar 18 @ 15:47

ASEAN financial institutions are focusing increasing investment on payments modernisation, with real-time payments capabilities serving as the first step to digital transformation across consumer and corporate services, per new benchmark... read more

10 Jan 18 @ 22:03

New research has revealed that major UK retailers are unaware, unprepared and paralysed ahead of the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) set to go live on January 13th. The research, from Consult... read more