December 18, 2014
EU: Parliament, Member States reach swipe-fee cap deal
The European Parliament and governments of EU Member States have reached a deal on where to cap debit and credit card interchange fees, a move Parliament hopes will reduce consumer...
December 18, 2014
EU Cuts Deal To Cap Card Fees
Under an EU deal struck Wednesday (Dec. 17) between lawmakers and the EU Council, payment-card interchange fees will be capped at 0.2 percent for debit and 0.3 percent for credit...
December 17, 2014
12 Innovators On What’s Next In 2015
NFC. HCE. EMV. “B4B” payments. What will be the next payments trend or fad? To get their perspectives on this year and predictions on next, PYMNTS talked to 12 innovators...
December 17, 2014
Investment Tracker | December 11 – 17
Adyen And The Changing Face Of Cross-Border Payment Christmas, it seems, has come early for global payments technology company Adyen this year. The Amsterdam-based business announced a $250 million funding...
December 15, 2014
The Ten Things That Changed Payments In 2014
Ah, yes, it’s the most magical time of the year. Predicting what the next year holds for all of us in payments. The internet is already filled with tons of...
December 05, 2014
The Five Ways Mobile Is Changing Commerce
Judging by the headlines, the Grinch descended from Mt. Crumpit on Black Friday and stole Christmas – or at least the shoppers that would make Christmas merry for the U.S,...
December 04, 2014
Ripple Labs, Earthport Cut Open Source Deal
Ripple Labs and Earthport have agreed to plug Ripple’s real-time settlement protocol into Earthport’s payments hub. This will allow Earthport’s customers to be able to use Ripple’s friction-free cross-border payments...
December 03, 2014
Fixing Global Payments’ $26 Trillion Problem
The global payments environment is increasingly crowded, even noisy. Next to Apple Pay, it’s a topic of conversation that’s all over the payments industry for obvious reasons – where there’s...
December 03, 2014
Taking Mass Payments To The Masses
Delivering mass payments is pretty easy if a corporation is paying 50,000 payees the same amount, in one country, and everyone’s banked, says Lisa Shields, CEO of hyperWALLET. Where it...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Digital wallets are transforming cross-border payments, making transactions faster and more seamless — but U.K. consumers are lagging behind businesses in adoption. The latest “Global Money Movement” data brief, a collaboration with TerraPay, explores the gap between consumer and merchant adoption, the role of generational trends, and what it will take to accelerate digital wallet usage across the U.K.