27 Oct 21 @ 11:43

New data released by the payments industry self-regulatory body, Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), has shown a slight increase in online card fraud in 2020 as the shift to online payments... read more

01 Apr 21 @ 13:44

As the payments ecosystem expands to include new players and payment methods including account to account and blockchain-enabled payments, we ask how much longer merchants are going to put up... read more

01 Apr 21 @ 12:54

European commercial card spending rose by 11 percent in 2019 to €366 billion and accounted for 8 percent of the total card payments value. Charge cards, where transactions must be... read more

19 Oct 20 @ 03:11

Data released by the Australian payments industry’s self-regulating body, the Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet) has revealed a 19.5 percent decline in card fraud in 2019, the biggest decline since fraud... read more

13 Oct 19 @ 08:00

Launched just over a year ago in Europe, GDPR is being hailed as a success, with similar legislation either enacted or on its way in Canada, Australia, Brazil and Singapore.... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 11:33

A new study from Thales reveals European companies lag behind their global counterparts when it comes to transforming their businesses for the digital era. More damaging is the study’s revelation... read more

04 Jun 19 @ 10:55

‘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

06 Feb 19 @ 06:02

A new report from SWIFT and the Boston Consulting Group, Global Payments 2018, has projected major shifts in emphasis and structure for the payments industry over the next decade. Whilst... 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

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

03 Oct 18 @ 13:50

A new study has found that mobile biometrics will authenticate $2 trillion worth of in-store and remote mobile payment transactions annually by 2023. This is 17 times the $124 billion... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:47

Instead of counting notes and coins or entering a PIN, mobile payments on smartphones have the potential to become a popular method of payment in Germany. Google Pay is already... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:45

While the phrase ‘time is money’ may seem clichéd, it is becoming increasingly relevant as technology-savvy but busy consumers turn to the internet and alternative payments to make shopping faster... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 13:54

Retailers have been asking themselves and their vendors for some time how to get to omni-channel. “I wouldn’t start from here” is the flippant response. Yet retailers do start here.... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:49

As the Android POS market really begins to gain traction in both mPOS and traditional POS, Ingenico launched Axium, its next-generation POS platform designed with acquirers’ clients in mind. It... 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

11 Oct 17 @ 14:59

Consumers will soon be able to forget about PINs and frustratingly long 16-digit card numbers when shopping online and in the real world. Visa is pushing to make Australian banks... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

There are a lot of moving parts in the US payments landscape with the ongoing EMV migration to chip technology, growth in mobile and contactless payments, and the increasing need... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 15:01

The development of new payment services and the evolution of technology are currently the top priorities for most domestic payment schemes. An overwhelming majority of schemes are in favour of cross-border... 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