March 14, 2013
RBS, Natwest Launch Visa Mobile Transfer Service
Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest are launching a new mobile payments service, in partnership with Visa Europe. The service will allow the two banks’ customers to send money to...
March 13, 2013
Visa Sees Jump In Credit, Cross-Border Payments
Visa released data concerning the first two months of 2013 yesterday, revealing that credit, cross-border and payments volume all grew on a year-over-year basis. According to the data, U.S. aggregate payments...
March 12, 2013
The Five Main Reasons Banks Engage In Replatforming
It’s common knowledge within the payments industry that many banks are replatforming their payments operations, but are you familiar with their motives to do so? According to an Accenture white...
February 14, 2013
Bank Of Ireland Launches SEPA Campaign
The central bank of Ireland has announced the launch of a SEPA information campaign. Since most businesses are still not ready for SEPA, the bank decided to take the matter...
February 12, 2013
French Government Tries To Limit Cash Payments
On Monday, the French government announced a number of measures to combat fraud in the country. Among the many measures desired by the government, is the wish to lower the...
February 12, 2013
Currency Cloud CEO: “New Finance Is Here To Stay”
The Currency Cloud has added its name to the growing list of alternative international payments providers cropping up in the recent months. Currency Cloud is rivalling with traditional financial institutions...
February 11, 2013
Azimo Rivals With The Big Players In The Remittances Market
What can you tell us about Azimo? How does it work? Azimo is a social remittance network. We allow anyone with an Internet-connected device to send money to over 4.5...
February 08, 2013
International & Cross-Border Payments
San Francisco, CA Global and cross-border payment systems, including emerging payment platforms such as mobile banking and virtual wallets, are set to explode, with all of the major industry players...
January 20, 2013
2013: The Year of Digitally Native Financial Services?
2013 will see a host of digitally native financial services firms start to take market share from traditional retail banks. Unlike vertically-integrated ‘Old Finance’ institutions with high fixed costs, these...
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.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.