Cards & Payments

The rise of contactless payments in the Czech Republic has driven a surge in overall card transactions in the country, which reached more than one billion in 2018 Contactless payments are becoming the dominant payment option in the Czech Republic,...

P27 Nordic Payments Platform (owned by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB and Swedbank) and Mastercard have announced a partnership to provide real-time and batch payments across the Nordic markets; building the most advanced, innovative and efficient...

Visa announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the token services and ticketing businesses, formerly Bell ID and Ecebs LTD, from Rambus, a premier silicon IP and chip provider dedicated to delivering data faster and safer. The...

PT Bank CIMB Niaga Tbk (“CIMB Niaga”) and Liquid Group announced a strategic partnership to spearhead cross-border QR payment acceptance between Singapore and Indonesia. The partnership was initiated through their joint participation in Bank Indonesia’s Quick Response Indonesian Standard...

The leading global financial institution J.P. Morgan  announced the launch of E-Customs Payment Solution, making it the first foreign bank in China to offer a solution that fully digitizes and automates cross-border payments of goods. The solution solves common...

World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) invited a dozen executives from Peru’s Cooperativa de Ahorro y Credito Santo Cristo de Bagazan and El Salvador’s Federation of Savings and Loan Cooperative Associations (FEDECACES) to take part in the three-day Pasantia...

Financial services and communications firm Western Union has partnered with payments technology giant Visa to add speed and transparency to the process of sending money across the world. Under the collaboration, Western Union will deploy Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push...