January 09, 2013
HSBC Appoints Rani Gu To Lead Payments Business In China
HSBC has named Rani Gu to lead its Financial Institutions Group (FIG) in China, notes Finextra. Rani, a former HSBC employee, had spent the past seven years at Citibank. Get...
January 07, 2013
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or eCommerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
December 14, 2012
Overcoming The Challenges Of Cross-Border Commerce
What could a partnership between a major issuer like MasterCard and a cross-border comments player like FiftyOne offer to the average consumer? Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
December 11, 2012
Earthport Expands Payments Service To Turkey
Earthport has announced the expansion of its cross-border payments service to Turkey. The new payment route comes in response to the growing client demand for cost-efficient, low value payments into...
December 10, 2012
How Can National Card Schemes Remain Competitive? Five Tips
Commentary by John Chaplin, director at Anthemis Group Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
November 29, 2012
Cross Border Service Payments under EU Fair Competition and SEPA...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anca Daniela Chirita (Durham Law School) discusses Cross Border Service Payments under EU Fair Competition and SEPA Rules ABSTRACT: EU rules on the functioning of...
November 25, 2012
World Bank Calls For Payments Deregulation
The World Bank has announced that remittance flows to developing countries are expected to exceed the earlier estimates by the bank and will amount to $406 billion, a 6.5 percent...
November 22, 2012
Cyber Criminals Target SEPA
Anti-malware specialists McAfee have reported that Operation High Roller – a wire transaction fraud scam – has targeted the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments network. The criminals have moved...
November 20, 2012
European Parliament Wants Common Interchange Fees Across EU
Future EU rules for card payments should be modelled on those for cross-border bank transfers, so as to make paying cheap, easy and safe, say MEPs in a resolution adopted...
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.
Credit is moving from rigid rules to real-time intelligence as AI agents act on transactions at the speed of signal. The inaugural “ABCs of AI Credit: A Playbook for Issuers,” a collaboration with Thredd, shows issuers how to put agentic decisioning to work to lift approvals, cut friction and control risk.