25 November 2020
“Viva Wallet’s 0% acquiring fee proposition leverages both its acquiring and issuing capabilities,” said Zil Bareisis, a U.K.-based senior analy…
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17 November 2020
Italian technology firm Nexi has dedicated about $15 billion over the past two months to shore up its position in the European payment processin…
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16 October 2020
“While PSD2 is a European directive, it has been transposed into the U.K. law, and I think most people assumed that the U.K. would continue to c…
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26 June 2019Why BofA is making it easier to use other companies' mobile wallets American Banker, John Adams, Thursday, 27 June 2019 By creating a close tie…
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21 May 2019Small cross-border deals play a big role for Visa, Mastercard PaymentsSource - John Adams - 21 May 2019 Visa’s recent green light from U.K. regu…
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3 May 20195 reasons to worry about Facebook’s cryptocoin Payments Source, John Adams, Friday, 03 May 2019, Facebook’s pursuit of a crypto-based payment s…
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26 April 2019PayPal’s $500m investment paves the way for an Uber digital wallet PaymentsSource, John Adams, 26 April 2019 Uber’s getting a half billion dolla…
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17 April 2019Mastercard buys Vyze to get ahead of the POS financing market PaymentsSource, John Adams, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 By Mastercard’s own reckoning,…
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1 April 2019Mastercard has spent years attempting to overhaul transit payments to allow riders to pay with a contactless credit or debit card. This time aro…
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29 March 2019The U.K. government is consulting with train operators on smart pay-as-you-go ticketing. The goal is to enable consumers to travel across the U.…
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18 March 2019"As open banking and faster payments grow, the ability to offer end-to-end solutions from merchants to account funding irrespective of payment r…
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18 March 2019The bank software and payment technology provider FIS announced Monday its agreement to acquire the payments company Worldpay for $35 billion. W…
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8 March 2019Mastercard has dropped out of a recent bidding war with Visa to acquire Earthport, announcing it will instead buy Transfast, a different cross-b…
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5 March 2019You just had dinner with a co-worker, and you want to pay her back then and there. So, you grab your smartphone to settle the debt via Venmo or…
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18 October 2018India’s government has been aggressively (and, at times, dramatically) pro-digital commerce — but not necessarily when it involves foreign compa…