Pragmatist

A new international banking report admits to continuing problems in making payments from one country to another, but points to improveme...

Three years after being announced in the UK and I suspect many retailers are still yet to realise that their loyalty/store card programm...

The UK government has just announced its final approach to implementing the new Payment Services Directive (PSD2) , along with the final...

A key EU financial authority has asked EU regulators to be strict on UK firms seeking to escape the impact of Brexit. The concern is t...

Another good meeting of the BitcoinBlockchain Leadership Forum today, with the focus on practical use-cases for distributed ledgers and...

In an attempt to eradicate late payments to small businesses of approximately £41bn, the government has proposed that, from April 2016, ...

The European Banking Authority recently issued payment security guidelines , as part of its security remit under PSD2. The guidelines tak...

In a joint study , Ofcom and the UK's new Payment Systems Regulator have explored the reasons for limited innovation in the UK paymen...

Source: LoudMouth Media You may have noticed that I'm madly trying to keep up with the blast of confetti from Brussels known as ...

The more I study the latest proposal for a new Payment Services Directive (PSD2) , the more I'm concerned that it will reduce innovat...

Source: Shirtigo Figuring out the impact of the proposed changes to European payments law (PSD2), is like watching primordial soup , w...

Source: paymentsgateway.com.au Changes are being proposed to European payments law that will affect service providers who send payment...

The Establishment has finally woken up to the reality of virtual currencies, but official responses are all over the place. Let's hop...

And that's not all... The term "e-wallet" or "digital wallet" has always caused a physical reaction. But what s...

This is an age old complaint, but worth repeating in these troubled times. My gas and electricity supplier does not allow payment of ...

Over on Tomorrow's Transactions, Dave Birch quite rightly questions the assertion in the NY Times that cash is somehow important to...

The comments under the Guardian's piece on Barclay's mobile money transfer app tell you everything you need to know about the p...

Few people are aware that when you pay using a credit or debit card, your 'issuing' bank charges the retailer's 'acquiring...

Thanks to Dave Birch , of Consult Hyperion , for the link to this fascinating paper by Ignacio Mas and Dan Ratcliffe on the success of M-PE...

I see that finally the competition authorities are looking at Visa's exclusive arrangement for the Olympic Games. I can well imagine th...