03 Oct 18 @ 13:43

Although the USA remains the world’s largest single payments market and the world’s largest economy, it is a complex market which has proven slower to move to new technologies such... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:41

The UK’s Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) has launched an investigation into card acquiring services and whether Britain’s big banks and payments specialists such as Worldpay and Wirecard have taken advantage... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:15

Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct, a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments for... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 14:38

Nets is rumoured to be nearing a deal that is expected to value the company’s shares at more than DKr31.3 billion ($5 billion) with US private equity firm Hellman &... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:06

It started with book publishing before moving to grocery retail, delivery, music streaming and television. The next industry Amazon has in its disruptive sights is banking. The Seattle-based behemoth has... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 14:54

Now in its tenth year, the Merchant Payments Ecosystem event in Berlin in February has become a firm fixture in the conference calendar. This year’s event saw an expanded exhibition... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 13:17

India is en route to overtake the US to become the world’s second largest e-commerce market, according to new research by Worldpay. In its latest global overview of online consumer... read more

23 Nov 16 @ 11:35

Last year Worldpay predicted that the digital payments market was overcoming its growing pains and heralded 2016 as “the third age of digital payments”. E-wallets are growing in popularity, NFC... 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 @ 09:58

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Advent International, Bain Capital and Clessidra have acquired Setefi Services and Intesa Sanpaolo Card from Intesa Sanpaolo for €1,035 million. Commenting on the announcement, Luca Bassi, managing... read more

02 Aug 16 @ 16:19

Identification and verification (ID&V) has always been at the heart of banking and payments, particularly in the digital age. After all, “on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” read... read more

05 Apr 16 @ 06:19

With a focus on merchant acquiring, the Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) event in Berlin in February connects all parts of the payment ecosystem. Indeed, the evolving and dynamic nature of... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:31

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a web payments working group to help streamline the online checkout process and make internet payments easier and more secure. W3C is... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 15:51

Visa Europe ended months of speculation by confirming in early November 2015 that it would sell its European operation to Visa Inc in a deal worth €21.2 billion. The price... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 08:16

The card acquiring industry is undergoing huge changes on its way to reposition for the digital age. Banks, PSPs and monoline acquirers are working on their modern acquiring strategies to... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 08:08

Various social media platforms have recently announced plans to allow trading on their sites via ‘buy buttons’. We examine the implications for merchants and acquirers. by Joyrene Thomas In the... read more

31 May 15 @ 08:09

Nearly 80 percent of all businesses fail their interim PCI compliance assessment, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks, according the 2015 PCI Compliance Report by global security consultancy Verizon. With... read more

28 May 15 @ 00:01

Nearly 80 percent of all businesses fail their interim PCI compliance assessment, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks, according the 2015 PCI Compliance Report by global security consultancy Verizon. With... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 14:41

UK shoppers reached for the plastic in record numbers in the run-up to Christmas according to the latest data from Worldpay, handling an unprecedented 600 million credit and debit card... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:26

The 7th annual Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) event, held in Berlin between 18th-20th February, attracted over 520 participants, 94 presenters, 29 sponsors and 24 exhibitors. The main theme of this... read more