Region: Europe

PayPal Expands in Europe

Merchants in Europe will be able to use Fastlane on a white-label basis to compete against branded digital wallets from PayPal, Apple, Google and Wero. Both Visa and Mastercard offer expedited checkout services in Europe called Click to Pay.

NFC-based E-Receipts

Pi-xcels, which has three patents pending or registered on its technology, estimates the number of terminals capable of using NFC-based e-receipt technology at 40 million worldwide.

Virtual Cards for Accounts Payable B2B Transactions

More than 630,000 virtual cards are issued every week using Conferma’s technology. The company’s platform promises visibility into all details related to a buyer’s expense and the near-real-time reconciliation of payments they make.

Market Cap Performance for Card Issuers and Networks

Every month we publish a snapshot of the stock market performances of more than 130 companies that earn revenue from customers in the payment card industry. This issue features the four publicly traded card payment networks and the 20 publicly traded issuers of payment cards. Combined, the card networks held a market capitalization of more […]

Payment Cards Projected Worldwide 2024—2029

General purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide are projected to reach 31.13 billion by December 31, 2029. At year-end 2024 that figure was 27.76 billion.