The use of payment cards is growing faster worldwide than any other major payment system. In many developed countries, by value, payment cards are used for the majority of payments at point of sale…
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Two regulations are changing the European payments landscape: The Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the Multilateral Interchange Fees Regulation. But how will corporates be affected?
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USA EMV chargebacks scheme is a mess with acquirers reporting different chargeback levels whilst two Florida retailers have filed a lawsuit on increased chargeback costs even though converted to EMV
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Only one-fifth of merchants surveyed have completed an omni-channel payments programme.
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New opportunity for reducing your collection costs as Payment Service Provider’s integrate SDD service into their offerings, banks are not the only place to go
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Turkey remains a largely cash-based economy but the Troy payment cards system will cut payment clearance fees and fuel further growth in the financial cards market.
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The US is the last major economy to fully embrace EMV and with card fraud now at an all-time high of $8.5 billion, it is under increasing pressure to do so.
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National Payments Corporation of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) went live on April 11 and is expected to change the way mobile banking transactions are conducted in India, AND increase usage dramatically
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New BofA Merrill Lynch Merchant Services (Europe) Limited unit in conjunction with Banc of America Merchant Services, LLC provides global clients simplified cross-border merchant services
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New business opportunities open up with a global platform which enables secure transfer of any type of payment, across any social and messaging channel, from or to any part of the world
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The European Parliament is supporting No Cash Day on 5 April but, despite impressive uptake of contactless and other e-payment methods in northern Europe, cash's allure is enduring.
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A key set of documentation that ensures standardisation, interoperability, and security for the European cards industry has been updated to comply with the Interchange Fee Regulation.
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Although, cash is alive and growing in some countries, in developed countries the decline is slow and continuous with some countries possibly seeing the end of cash
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Citi and Imperial College London’s third Digital Money Report highlights the slow progress in digital money adoption and the drivers for change. See where you rank in Citi’s 2016 Digital Money Index
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Views on Bitcoin vary as widely as the price. Leading developer quits due to structural problems in system, while Cardinal Commerce issues ”A Merchant's Guide to Bitcoin"
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Contactless usage accelerating: risen from 3.7% in October 2014
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Optimise our payments and collections by first accepting that a payment or collection is only part of a business transaction, and .....
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There is no let up in the speed that the changes keep coming world-wide
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Are you ready for eWallets - ApplePay, Google, etc. - becoming the most popular e-commerce payment method, overtaking credit cards, and 23% of all e-commerce being exclusively from mobile?
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The British Retail Consortium has said that EU businesses could save £480 million as a result of the new caps on credit and debit card fees, which came into force on 9 December.
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The European Payments Council has published an updated version of the Sepa cards standardisation volume, calling it “a step towards an enhanced security of remote card payments in Europe”.
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Of the 1.5 billion payment cards in circulation in Europe at the end of 2014, providers MasterCard and Visa are increasing their share of the market and now account for almost 86% of all payment cards in Europe.
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Understanding what payment systems your retail customers like and managing their concerns is the key to maximising digital consumer spending
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Cash set to decline to 33% of all transactions, debit cards take 42%, credit cards 8% as card payment volumes increase by 66% and online/phone (Faster Payments) volumes more than double
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CNN infographic shows the differences. Here’s how to identify which one you should accept at point of sale
