New research from e-payment specialist PPRO group has found that a third of consumers (31%) criticise merchants for not offering their preferred payment methods while just under half of consumers (47%) actually abandon their online shopping baskets and go shop elsewhere as a result.
The American tech giant has launched its mobile payment service, Apple Pay, in Spain, partnering with Mastercard, Carrefour and American Express.
ING has announced that it is scrapping Twyp, its peer-to-peer payments app, in the Netherlands following negative feedback from its customers.
Stripe, the biggest fintech company in the US, is about to consolidate its position at the top by almost doubling its valuation to $9.2 billion following Series D funding.
Expansion into rural areas is they key driver of the impressive card acceptance growth happening in developing markets, finds new research from RBR.
Grab your party hats and Union Jacks because the UK's Black Friday online spending growth is set be higher than America's according to new data from Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile division of Ingenico Group.
Barclays is set to jump on to the contactless cash trend by allowing customers to withdraw up to £100 by tapping their smartphones or contactless cards at the ATM.
With Black Friday approaching, it's time to take a quick look at how the modern day Brit likes to shop, and it looks like the behaviour is in the midst of a noticeable evolution.
If there is one metric that can be used to most clearly present the rising success of contactless payments, it would be monthly spend. New research from the UK Card Association shows that monthly contactless card spending has passed the £2 billion mark in July.
The contactless technology momentum doesn't only apply to the ever increasing spending as new research from analyst firm Berg Insight predicts that nearly 80% of the world's POS terminals will be contactless within the next four years.
