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The vital role of payment methods in the UK’s online gambling scene

Most online casinos today can provide their customers with diverse payment methods, from traditional cards to digital wallets and mobile payments. However, the landscape of online casinos has rapidly changed over the past decades, and so have the preferences of potential players. The vital role of payment in online gambling With new payment methods emerging […]

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Report: Payments from a merchant’s perspective

Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) and Arkwright Consulting have partnered on a joint research project – Payments from a merchant’s perspective. During Q4 2023, MPE invited merchants within its community to par­ticipate in the survey, Arkwright then performed the research through online questionnaires and a sample of deep-dive interviews. Overall, the European merchant industry appears to

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Taking Carrier Billing to a new level of reach, relevance, and respectability

By appreciating its true strengths, and overcoming its pain points, carrier billing can become far more relevant to many more merchants – and hundreds of millions of European consumers. Taking Carrier Billing to a new level Today, carrier billing (CB) has a niche, and it serves that niche very well, writes Clemens Leitner, CEO, DIMOCO

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Italian in-store mobile payments grew 88% in 2023

In 2023, Nexi recorded an 88% increase in the value of in-store mobile payments transactions via smartphone and smartwatch in Italy, new data reveals. Italian mobile payments grew 88% in 2023 According to further data released by the Innovative Payments Observatory of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan, mobile-based payments increased by

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Market meltdown – impacts on infrastructure, regulation and innovation

The Payments Innovation Jury today releases its 2024 global report “Market meltdown – impacts on infrastructure, regulation and innovation”, which reveals global payment leaders’ views on how tumultuous macroeconomic changes over the past two years have affected their sector – for better and worse. The Payments Innovation Jury With research undertaken in collaboration with World

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Visa and Western Union deepen cross-border payment partnership

Visa has announced a further 7-year agreement with Western Union, building on its existing integrations with Visa Direct in 2022 and 2019, which enabled US and European customers to send and receive funds directly to eligible Visa cardholders overseas. Visa and Western Union deepen partnership Under the new agreement, Western Union customers will be able to

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Banco do Brasil partners with G+D to test DREX CBDC

Banco do Brasil (BB) will partner with Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to test an offline payment solution within the CBDC pilot of the Brazilian Digital Real Electronic (DREX). Banco do Brasil partners to test CBDC This will allow the exploration of payment use cases using the Brazilian digital currency in situations where there is no internet connection

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