February 28, 2012
Facebook Credits: Do Payments Firms Need to Worry?
It’s a wallet, it’s a currency, and it leaps tall buildings in a single bound, it’s: Facebook Credits. And, yes, unless you have green kryptonite, if you’re in the payments...
February 07, 2012
USA Technologies Inks New Three-Year Relationship with Elavon, Inc.
USA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAT), a leader of wireless, cashless payment and M2M telemetry solutions for self-serve, small-ticket retailing industries, announced that effective November 2011, the company has extended a...
January 08, 2012
Mobile Financial Services and the Emerging Global Middle Class
How Mobile Technology Is Broadening Financial Access in Less-Developed Countries While Driving Business Opportunities for Global Companies I. Introduction Access to financial services is a major challenge for more...
December 20, 2011
SEPA Deadline Set for 2014
Cross-border payment services should become faster, cheaper and safer for EU citizens thanks to a deal reached by MEPs and Member State negotiators on Tuesday. The deal, which has still...
November 23, 2011
Euronet Obtains Access to New Markets and Cost Savings Opportunities...
Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), through its wholly owned subsidiary – Euronet Payments & Card Services Ltd. (EPCS), has been authorized by the Financial Service Authority (FSA) in the United...
October 13, 2011
Tinkoff Issues 1M Cards on TSYS PRIME
Today TSYS® announced that it has joined with Tinkoff. Credit Systems (TCS) to celebrate the issuance of one million credit cards on TSYS’ PRIME card management solution. One million credit...
October 12, 2011
TSYS Signs With Imperial Bank
TSYS today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Imperial Bank, Kenya, for PRIME 4, the latest version of its card and merchant management solution. Imperial Bank will deploy...
August 18, 2011
Indian Ocean/South Asia Mobile Payments & Banking Summit 2011
This Summit will be exploring the current hot spots, growth opportunities and expert recommendations for retail payments and cross-border money remittance, evolving business models for banks & network operators, the...
August 02, 2011
Elavon, China UnionPay Reach Agreement
Elavon, a leading global payments provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), and China UnionPay, the bankcard association in China, have signed a binding agreement to enable acceptance...
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.