January 27, 2022
Neobank XTM Launches Visa Debit Card

Neobank XTM announced Thursday (Jan. 27) it has signed a partnership agreement with Visa that will see the payments giant launching a debit card for XTM’s Today program. Based in...

January 27, 2022
McDonald’s Leverages Loyalty Personalization to Combat Aggregators

In just half a year since its loyalty program’s nationwide launch, quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant McDonald’s is already becoming a leader in the space, leveraging its program to build direct...

January 27, 2022
UK Payments Regulator Seeks More Transparency in Card-Acquiring Market

The U.K. Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published a public consultation on January 26 in which it considers applying four potential remedies in the card-acquiring market.  This public consultation on potential...

January 27, 2022
Mastercard: Instant Payments Unlock Weeks of Working Capital for Small...

Buyers and suppliers have been trying to accelerate B2B payments for decades. No easy task: they’ve both wrestled with the basics of getting payments done faster, and the paper check...

January 26, 2022
Interest Rate Hikes Likely to Spur More Interest in BNPL

The only sureties in life, it is said, are death and taxes. We can add higher interest rates to the list. As stocks gyrate wildly on Wall Street, the Federal...

January 26, 2022
Pizza Hut Tests Fully Robotic Restaurant, Portending the Vending Machine-ified...

When it comes to pizza, consumers may be ready for robotic restaurants. Pizza Hut now has a fully automated location at a mall in Bnei Dror, Israel, per a video...

January 26, 2022
UK Payments Watchdog Calls for Credit Card Reforms

The U.K.’s payments watchdog has called for reforms that would increase competition in retailer’s card services amid a rise in cashless transactions stemming from the pandemic. As Reuters reported Wednesday...

January 26, 2022
Facebook Diem: Move Fast, Break Things, Then Crash Into a...

Facebook’s sudden announcement of the Libra stablecoin on June 18, 2019 was the epitome of its old motto, “move fast and break things.” Thirty-one months later, the sputtering project finally...

January 26, 2022
UK Launches Panel to Promote Data Flow

For the first time, experts, leadership from Google, Mastercard and Microsoft and nearly two dozen other companies launched the International Data Transfer Expert Council as part of the U.K. government’s...