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Card schemes were planning to increase fees, according to reports last autumn. Then the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) announced in December 2023 provisional proposals to introduce a price cap fo...
In today’s e-commerce landscape, fraud prevention and detection solutions must include tools such as graph analysis to track data across numerous transactions. Over the last few years, the e-commerce ...
Open banking has the potential to reshape eCommerce transactions, yet so far, uptake has been slow amongst consumers. Since Open Banking was introduced in January 2018, UK banks have been required to ...
With Christmas just around the corner and many consumers feeling the pinch of a rapidly worsening cost of living crisis, festive spending is already being curtailed. As consumers become more cautious ...
As 2022 comes to an end, the global economic landscape is looking increasingly bleak. COVID-19, war, sanctions, energy shortages and inflation all contribute to a mood of uncertainty amongst business ...
Travel spending is showing signs of recovery after the pandemic. However, lifestyle shifts will continue to influence industry trends, especially when it comes to online payments. The travel and hospi...
Buy Now, Pay Later is a rapidly growing trend in a number of market sectors, including retail, entertainment and travel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, use of the payment scheme increased fourfold in t...
During my twenty years of involvement in the world of digital payments, I've personally witnessed profound changes to the retail landscape, as an ever greater percentage of consumers move away from th...
As the tourism industry finally begins to make a full recovery from COVID-19 and its resulting travel restrictions, there have recently been fresh worries that sanctions brought on by the conflict in ...
Despite cryptocurrencies surging in popularity in recent years, even the most vocal Bitcoin advocate would have to concede that few people regularly use their digital coins to purchase goods and servi...
The coronavirus pandemic is changing all of our lives in ways we could barely have imagined twelve months ago. From stay-at-home-lockdowns to mandatory masks, to a new culture of increasingly working ...
The cashless revolution is here, and it’s happening all over the globe: from Malaysian village market stalls to the London high street. There can be no revolution without controversy, of course. Domin...