29 Dec 22 @ 03:53

With pressure on margins in payments growing, major banks are said to be looking at how they can capitalise on the wide range of smaller institutions and clients looking for... read more

21 Apr 22 @ 09:45

Alongside a host of other Western companies, PayPal, Mastercard, Apple and Visa have pulled out of the Russian market following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with major banks such as JP... read more

01 Apr 21 @ 11:59

Mastercard has partnered with NMI and Global Payments to launch its first live Cloud POS on Phone pilot with the Computer Engineering Group (CEG). In Q3 2020, contactless penetration represented... read more

18 Feb 21 @ 09:48

iBanFirst has launched a ‘Payment Tracker’ – a real-time payment-tracking service that sets new transparency standards for the payments industry. Rolled out to both payers and payees, this unique feature... read more

23 Dec 20 @ 12:42

Dependent on the rate of recovery from the current pandemic, the global payments industry could recover relatively rapidly, with revenues up by four percent by the end of 2024.  This... read more

23 Dec 20 @ 12:07

From acquiring to fraud, the role of big tech, mobile wallets and faster payments – PCM’s James Wood asks industry leaders to play Gypsy Rosie Lee and read what’s on... read more

18 Aug 20 @ 12:14

With a young population and some of the highest economic growth rates in the world, investors are flocking to African payments in search of the same returns seen in Asia... read more

18 Aug 20 @ 12:08

Major venture capital firms have invested heavily in new FinTech solutions that promise faster, cheaper international transaction clearing and settlement. But significant challenges remain before faster payments go global. PCM... read more

18 Aug 20 @ 12:05

PCM has been given exclusive access to research undertaken by Magna Carta Communications for Banking Circle, as well as the thoughts of leading European bankers on life after COVID, and... read more

18 Aug 20 @ 12:05

As mobile payments rocket in popularity due to the COVID crisis, payment companies are seeing corresponding increases in fraud attacks and consumer scams. The situation has become so acute that... read more

06 Apr 20 @ 12:53

Dispute resolution is a problem that impacts all major participants in the payments industry, from card issuers to merchants and consumers. An estimated 25 million transactions are disputed each year,... read more

18 Dec 19 @ 15:40

From Latin America to Africa, Central Asia and South-East Asia, PCM picks out the markets set for explosive growth in 2020 using inside information, industry data and our own exclusive,... read more

18 Dec 19 @ 15:27

M-commerce and the use of smartphones for online shopping in the UK has skyrocketed by 141 percent in 12 months, research by Feefo has found. By contrast, the use of... read more

18 Dec 19 @ 15:16

American Express says it will launch an Open Banking product that will enable UK consumers to pay for goods and services online directly from their bank account. Pay with Bank... read more

14 Oct 19 @ 08:42

There’s no such thing as one size fits all when it comes to the intelligence needed to uncover, specify, and prevent cyberthreats. Each industry faces unique challenges and vulnerabilities as... read more

14 Oct 19 @ 08:39

The global Real-Time Payments (RTP) market size was valued at 6.90 billion in 2018 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 29.3 percent from 2019 to 2025. RTPs... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 11:26

The Asia Pacific mobile wallet market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $35 billion to more than $140 billion by 2024. The increasing penetration... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:12

Blockchain has been called the most over-hyped innovation in the world today, with the hysteria surrounding it sometimes compared to the infamous “dot.com” bubble of 1999-2000. PCM Editor James Wood... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:07

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

27 Nov 18 @ 11:39

The major card networks dominate the modern payments landscape, and have been a driver of global commerce over the last fifty years. The last few years’ statistics confirm this dominance... read more