Payments
-
1 Sep
People in Australia aren’t using mobile payments because contactless cards are too good
Contactless payment cards are ubiquitous in Australia, and acceptance has been strong compared to most other markets.
-
9 Aug
Worldpay merger: the company’s long road to a $10bn valuation
Worldpay — owned by Royal Bank of Scotland until the bank was forced to carve it out in the aftermath of the financial crisis — has flourished over the last two years as a standalone company.
-
7 Aug
Europe is getting real-time payments this year and Visa and Mastercard should be worried
Real-time payments are already live in some European domestic markets, and from November will be available across the continent.
-
2 Aug
India’s Paytm is looking to launch a messaging app to rival WhatsApp
Paytm, India’s leading digital payments app is looking to launch its own messaging app to take on Facebook’s WhatsApp.
-
20 Jul
Contactless payments are on the rise in the UK
More than a third of all card payments in the UK are now contactless, according to figures published by trade association UK Finance.
-
14 Jul
Contactless cards only work when all stakeholders back them — A Scandinavian study
Contactless cards have already taken off in some European countries.
-
4 Jul
Worldpay shares soar as the UK’s largest payments processing company courts buyers
Shares in Worldpay, the UK’s largest payments processing company jumped 28 percent on Tuesday after attracting two takeover approaches.
-
12 May
Here’s why Apple and Google are failing to pocket the benefits of digital payments
Some technologists believe that physical wallets will be the next victim of the smartphone revolution, joining a graveyard that includes phone booths, pocket cameras, and iPods.
-
12 Apr
Singapore has a freak discrepancy between card penetration and transaction volumes
One of the most advanced payments markets globally — with 84 percent of adults holding both a debit and a credit card — Singpore remains a payments anomaly.
-
20 Feb
The European payments regulator doesn’t think Germany’s payments are up to scratch
It’s not often a conference speaker gets up and off the cuff delivers a single-handed slating of a host country’s ecosystem that everyone would usually be there to promote.
-
7 Feb
PayPal, Amazon, and Visa are pushing payments any way they can
Adoption of online, in-app, and mobile payments is accelerating and the various players are trying to give the virtual, a real world grounding.