Europe

Worldpay Headed For London’s Largest IPO This Year
September 18, 2015

Never a dull moment at U.K. payments firm Worldpay. After a summer of courting by private equity and its various rivals — notably Germany’s Wirecard and France’s Ingenico — Worldpay looks like it instead might just be going again on its own (walking down the only...

Monitise’s Tough Road Forward
September 14, 2015

To say it has been a bad year for British payments tech player Monitise is something of an understatement. The question now is whether there is any chance it can be turned around. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Europe
Why Investors Are Hungry For Food Delivery
September 02, 2015

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Apple’s Good News In The UK — The Contactless Payment Cap Has Been Upped (Slightly)
September 01, 2015

Apple Pay launched in the U.K. around a month ago — albeit with one very sharp limit. Consumers, due to a cap on contactless payments methods (like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, contactless cards or just about anything that makes use of NFC) were limited to...

Did Wirecard Just Bid $9.4B On Worldpay?
August 26, 2015

According to unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, according to Bloomberg, the bidding war for U.K. payments processor Worldpay has just seen the entry of its German rival as a potential buyer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

B2B Payments
Big Value For Visa Europe, Big Progress For The Blockchain And Big Trouble For Snapchat
August 24, 2015

Between Apple’s falling share prices, Amazon’s HR woes and the great Ashley Madison data dump of 2015, last week was an all-around great time for gossip in America. And with so much scurrilous (and potentially spurious) data floating free in cyberspace, it might have been...

Green Man Gaming And The New Marketplace
July 30, 2015

In 1985, video games were a $100 million industry; that was after the great console crash that started in 1983 and drained 97 percent of the value of a once $3.2 billion marketplace. Though many predicted the end of home gaming with that crash, video...

Europe
More UK Consumers Expect Contactless Payments
July 23, 2015

According to new research from Lloyds Bank Cardnet, many U.K. consumers are looking for more from retailers, especially when it comes to offering contactless payment options. Just under half of the consumers surveyed, 47 percent, said they expect, or would prefer, businesses to make contactless...

Controversial
The Big Buy-In Edition: How Visa, Google and Greece Are Investing In The Future
July 20, 2015

We at PYMNTS like to imagine that while the markets wait, watch and speculate today about the future of PayPal as an independent company, its employees are busily engaged in a company-wide sing-along of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” Get the Full Story Complete the form...