ANALYSIS Europe’s payments paradox: one market, many ways to pay
Europe’s payment infrastructure is converging, but its consumers are not. New research finds that shoppers mix habit with choice, local trust with global convenience...
Cross-border payment routing costing games companies 8.4% of revenues, report suggests
How a consumer is charged and what payment methods are available is becoming increasingly important in driving traffic and conversions – and a new...
One in four Europeans will abandon purchases over missing payment options
More than one in four European consumers are likely to abandon a purchase if they cannot pay using their preferred method, according to new...
Banglalink receives Bangladesh Bank approval to launch digital payment service
Bangalink, the Bangladeshi arm of telco VEON, has been awarded a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence from Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh,...
Visa and Mastercard lay payment rails for the agentic economy –...
Visa and Mastercard have unveiled separate initiatives designed to make payments initiated by AI agents secure, controllable and scalable, as artificial intelligence moves from...
OPINION The FCA has changed the PSP buying conversation
Alpa Jotangia, Head of Compliance, Ecommpay takes a look at what May’s changes in how the UK’s FCA views safeguarding, consumer duty and financial...
The digital euro creeps ever closer
The European Central Bank (ECB) has given the green light for 36 PSPs and selected merchants to participate in the Eurosystem’s digital euro pilot. It...
Vodacom Lesotho brings micro-investing to M-Pesa as Africa’s mobile wallets move...
Vodacom Lesotho has launched an M-Pesa-based investment service that allows customers to put small amounts of money into professionally managed funds directly from their...
The age of the click is over, welcome to the age...
Europe may be loosening Google’s grip on mobile search and AI, but it is not bringing back the old internet. Telemedia must prepare for...
More than payments: why telemedia needs to stop thinking in rails
For years, the telemedia industry has tended to view payments as a choice of rails. Cards, direct carrier billing, wallets, bank transfer, local payment...
