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Well the confidence and optimism from Wednesday was still evident at the end of yesterday. Last year people had ideas, this year they are actually doing something about them and actively looking for
The EFMA conference is a regular event in my calendar, and as I travelled there on Tuesday the omens were looking good. I bought my breakfast at the airport with contactless Visa Paywave and the sun w...
According to the Bank of England there is over £52 billion in cash circulating in the UK economy today. That's enough to buy 232,000 homes all over the country or the Lloyds Banking Group, at today's ...
Brett King’s Bank 2.0 comment on customer innovation (Is Customer Experience innovation too hard for UK banks?),raises some important questions about how retail banks see their customers through the ...
The debate and controversy around interchange fees seems to have existed almost as long as card payments themselves, and these latest concerns from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) reflect a global...
Tesco is marking the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its loyalty Clubcard by offering £120million worth of money off vouchers and an iPhone application that turns the phone into an electronic Club...
In the last week or so we have seen announcements from PKO Bank Polski and Intesa Sanpaolo about their plans to roll out contactless to their customers, with PKO Polski reporting that 6 million cards ...
Following the recent global downturn and the implications for consumer lending, credit card offerings have come under the spotlight like never before. In the United States, for example, new credit ca...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin Almost all consumers have been affected in some way by the rec
Regulators had hoped that the SEPA Cards Framework would drive industry competition. Indeed, they imagined that Europe’s national card bodies, struggling to survive under SEPA, would club together to ...