08 Apr 19 @ 14:22

Forecasts predict that by 2022, just 17 percent of global payments will be made by cash. Meanwhile, digital and mobile wallet usage will continue to rise, accounting for 28 percent... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:33

Digital and mobile wallets have been spoken about in the industry for many years. Since their inception, the payments industry in particular has paid close attention to the underlying technologies... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:18

Driven by contactless card payments and by increased card usage, in 2017 the number of card payments continued to grow across the 33 countries covered by our Yearbook. POS payments... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:28

The number of people using mobile contactless payment, such as Apple Pay or Google Pay, will continue to grow to more than 760 million by 2020, with Apple’s digital wallet leading the way, according... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:27

By the end of this year, a quarter of US smartphone users — 55 million people to date — over the age of 14 will make an in-store mobile payment,... read more

01 Feb 18 @ 11:33

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2016. This was supported by the rollout of contactless technologies,... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

LG managed to launch its heavily delayed mobile payment service dubbed LG Pay on 2 June. The digital wallet competes with look-alike wallet offerings from Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:21

Android Pay has linked its mobile wallet service to a handful of mobile banking apps, giving consumers the ability add their cards more quickly to the mobile wallet. Customers of... 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 @ 14:48

Although the mobile wallet ecosystem is maturing, in-store mobile payments have yet to take off. Consumer disinterest, coupled with delays in fully implementing the necessary infrastructure, are preventing mobile wallets... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 10:13

The global smartphone installed base will grow from four billion in 2016 to more than six billion smartphones in use by 2020, according to new analysis released by IHS Markit. Messaging and communications... 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

23 Nov 16 @ 11:38

According to Visa’s 2016 Digital Payments Study, the number of consumers regularly using a mobile device – smartphone, tablet or wearable – to make mobile payments has tripled in the... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:47

PAYWORKS HAS LAUNCHED Pulse, a next generation payment gateway technology, simplifiying in-person card payments by making it quick, easy and cost-efficient for developers to integrate card readers into their point... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:21

GOOGLE IS RUMOURED to be launching the Android Pay, digital payment service, using smartphones in Japan as early as autumn, in cooperation with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, sources close to... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:14

FIRST ANNAPOLIS RECENTLY completed the third edition of its semi-annual Study of Mobile Banking & Payments tracking consumer adoption and use of mobile banking and payments products. Given the energy... 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

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 @ 15:44

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