Launched in the UK in March following a year’s trial in the US, Instagram’s shopping tool presents a significant opportunity for retailers to capture impulse …
Alternative payments will soon overtake online card payments
The UK economy saw just 1.7% growth in 2017 and inflation that exceeded the Bank of England’s target, reaching 3.1%. This has led to higher …
Innovation and regulation dominate Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2018
The Merchant Payments Ecosystem Conference 2018 brought together payments professionals and merchants from across the globe to Berlin for three days of discussion panels around …
UK should follow Australia, Canada, and Ireland in scrapping coins
History and nostalgia should not prevent the UK moving forward as numerous other countries have done when their lowest denominations became almost irrelevant in today’s …
Amazon to increase dominance with checking account
Amazon is considering launching a checking account, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. However, this move should be viewed more as an …
WhatsApp makes a strong payments play in India
WhatsApp’s UPI integration looking to disrupt the digital payments market in India – a unique threat to PayTm and other smaller e-payments players WhatsApp is …
The Internet of Things isn’t driven by devices but by the network
At Mobile World Congress this week, networking giant Cisco rolled out a new networking and device management platform for IoT practitioners that promises to enable …
Compliance Makes Cyber Security a Greater Business Issue, not a Technical One
The amendment to the Australian Privacy Act around Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) became effective from 22 February 2018. This means that new notification procedures are …
Is an open banking level playing field possible?
So who is going to be the big winner from open banking: incumbent established banks, the challenger brands, digital start-ups or technology giants such as …
2018: the year of blockchain
This year, we will finally start to see some of the promised potential of blockchain technology, as national governments and major banking and payments players …