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Idemia Metal Payment Cards

To meet demand, IST has created Metal Design Labs, which gives issuers the opportunity to work with Idemia’s designers, engineers and manufacturing experts and create samples and prototypes for new metal card concepts.

Nordiska Embedded Finance

Sweden-based Nordiska plans to expand throughout Europe by offering embedded finance services as an orchestration layer rather than as a core banking service. The company’s modular platform delivers financial products such as banking-as-a-service, cards-as-a-service, white-label and co-branded credit card programs and card-linked loyalty programs via a single API. Nordiska sees opportunities to provide co-branded credit […]

Patents for Vehicle Data and Two-Way Payments

Aiden Auto provides an embedded software platform that securely facilitates sharing vehicle data with third parties. The platform interfaces directly with the vehicle. Other technology providers utilize telematics hardware and aftermarket dongles to accomplish data sharing. The company recently secured three patents that cover vehicle-based payments, in-vehicle consent and data sharing in the United States […]

Europe’s Top Card Issuers 2025

The 50 largest issuers of cards in Europe ranked by 2025 purchase volume on credit, debit and prepaid consumer, small business and commercial cards are shown on page 7 of Issue 1311. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1311. Those cards carried either the global brands of Visa, Mastercard, American Express and […]

Europe’s Top Issuers of Commercial Credit Cards

The Europe-based issuers of commercial credit card products shown here are ranked by purchase volume—spending for goods and services—in 2025. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1310. The table on page 11 is a combination of corporate (T&E), small business credit and purchasing & fleet products including Visa, Mastercard, Diners Club and […]

Yabie Software Platform

Stockholm-based Yabie started in 2017 as a custom software developer for smartphones and tablets used as POS terminals. Subsequently, it built a suite of commerce products for small businesses in the restaurant, retail and service industries, and two years ago, created a platform to make its software available to acquirers and PSPs throughout Europe. Worldpay, […]

UK Banks are Building an Open Payments Network

UKPI transactions will be settled directly between a consumer and a merchant bank. Unlike existing A2A payments, UKPI transactions will carry rules that govern disputes as well as other consumer protections.

Top 45 Merchant Acquirers in Europe—2025

Cards carrying the global brands—Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club/Discover, UnionPay and JCB—generated 150.83 billion transactions, an increase of 6.6%.