29 Dec 22 @ 04:08

The news that Venmo has been added by Amazon as a payment method feels like a watershed moment. For years, industry chat has talked about the potential for payments that... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:23

Apple is once again rumoured to be building its own money transfer service to take on the likes of Venmo. The company has recently held discussions with payments industry partners about... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:27

PAYPAL’S P2P PAYMENT service Venmo is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. PayPal has acknowledged the situation in an SEC filing: “On March 28th, 2016, we received a Civil... read more

24 Mar 25 @ 14:11

Wallets and SoftPOS will dominate merchant headlines front-of-house, while AI will shore up back-of house. Anna Milne speaks to three payments players ahead of MPE, to ask what’s keeping them... read more

22 Oct 24 @ 14:07

Figures vary as to the availability of crypto acceptance globally by merchants. In the sartorial style stakes, some bold moves have been made to advance the appeal and extol the... read more

14 Dec 23 @ 15:47

PayPal has revealed that users can now add their PayPal and Venmo credit or debit cards to their Apple Wallet – a move that was announced last year as part... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 08:33

For several months now Payments Cards & Mobile has been covering the fast-moving change in direction of Twitter (now X) from a messaging platform to a mobile payments Super App.... read more

14 Aug 23 @ 15:22

Amid the glare of red rockets, one imagines, the US has finally announced the launch of FedNow for July 2023.  57 US banks (out of some 14,000 with licenses in... read more

16 Feb 23 @ 16:18

New technologies such as Account-to-Account payments and Open Banking are taking intermediaries out of the value chain in payments, while fresh advances in blockchain threaten total disintermediation. James Wood looks... read more

29 Dec 22 @ 04:23

From Open Banking and instant payments through the Next Big Thing in crypto, James Wood reads the cards to find out what’s coming next in the new year. Those who... read more

24 Oct 22 @ 11:08

A new study has found the volume of domestic digital money transfer payments will exceed 300 billion globally for the first time in 2026, from 207 billion in 2022, representing... read more

17 Feb 22 @ 15:05

This year’s PCM’s Digital and Card Payment Yearbooks suggest payment card use may be starting to decline, to be replaced by digital wallets, direct-to-account payments and other methods. James Wood... read more

17 Feb 22 @ 14:32

The 2021 State of Finance study from App Annie reveals just how fast the world of personal finance is going digital. Within this revolution, buy-now-pay-later and cryptocurrency services are growing... read more

17 Feb 22 @ 14:09

PayPal has confirmed numerous reports that it is working on a stablecoin. Jose Fernandez da Ponte, senior vice president of crypto and digital currencies at PayPal, confirmed: “We are exploring... read more

16 Dec 21 @ 13:46

The trend for outsourcing banking and payments services shows no sign of abating. James Wood asks why providers are outsourcing so much, and what’s going to happen next. It seems... read more

24 Aug 21 @ 09:21

For more than a decade, the shift to e-commerce and mobile has brought huge amounts of investment into payments. As further fresh investment rounds are announced, PCM asks whether a... read more

09 Jun 21 @ 03:51

A new study finds that digital domestic money transfer transaction values will rise from $2 trillion in 2020 to $3.4 trillion in 2025, driven by growth in mobile money transfers. ... read more

01 Apr 21 @ 13:09

The WorldPay/FIS Global Payments Report 2021 is one of the landmark studies in the payments calendar. This year, the report suggests a barely-credible rise in digital wallet use in both... read more

18 Feb 21 @ 10:34

By now, we all know COVID has floored the accelerator on digital. But what will POS (Point of Sale) look like after the pandemic? Will consumers return to in-store retail... read more

06 Apr 20 @ 13:00

Research from Deloitte in the United States has warned credit card issuers they need to do more to encourage credit card use if credit products are to have a long... read more