12 Oct 17 @ 14:46

From Brixton in the UK to Nantes in France and Mombassa in Kenya, local currency schemes are growing. In the face of the financial crisis and changing technology, PCM investigates... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:33

BBVA completed the first real-lifeimplementation of an international money transfer using Ripple’s new distributed ledger technology (DLT). The transaction, running on BBVA infrastructures with real money, successfully completed transfers between Spain and... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:34

Move over Big Data. There are two new buzz words in town: ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘machine learning’. The claims being made for these technologies are just as significant, if not... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:44

SBI Ripple Asia, a joint venture between distributed ledger tech provider Ripple and SBI Holdings, announced in August that a Japanese consortium of 15 banks in a new network will... read more

27 Sep 16 @ 13:30

When bank-account funded payments, real-time payments, mobile and other digital payments are actually the default way to pay in many countries, the term ‘alternative’ seems a misnomer. We examine current... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 10:00

SANTANDER UK HAS announced that it is experimenting with international Blockchain payments. The lender is allowing transfers of between £10 and £10,000 in any of three currencies (GBP, EUR or... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:44

In theory, the Internet of Things (IoT) could be the future of technology and a game-changer for many industries. But what are the implications for the payments industry? From industrial... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 14:58

Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised,... read more