Industry Events
Trustech is the annual meeting place of the card and trust technology industries. The event remains a popular mix between tradeshow and conference with over 200 international exhibitors, and around 100 international speakers covering the latest technologies and trends in the fields of Payments & Identification.
In Africa, Payments and Regtech stand as catalysts for economic transformation. Innovations in digital transactions coupled with robust regulatory technology are reshaping the financial landscape.
Transact by Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the world’s largest payments industry trade group is the one show focused solely on the business of payments technology. Transact is the place where financial institutions, networks, payments companies, FinTech and technology innovators gather to make the deals that shape the industry.
MPE 2025 will bring together 1,500+ individuals representing companies that are redefining the merchant payments ecosystem, on March 18-20, in the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, Germany.
A dynamic 4-day event that promises cutting-edge educational content, including keynotes, workshops, breakout sessions, and exclusive merchant roundtables, offering a comprehensive exploration of the latest payments and fraud prevention developments in Europe.
The 20th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum returns to Zurich, Switzerland to explore how organisations are optimising operations and seizing opportunities through the latest technological innovations in Payments and RegTech.
Industry News
April 3, 2025
FIS’s Premium Payback loyalty service will be used by Bilt to support redemption of Bilt Points by its Mastercard cardholders for spending for housing and at neighborhood merchants. The program will roll out in the third quarter of 2025.
January 27, 2025
Arab Financial Services, a provider of digital payment services in the Middle East and Africa, has expanded into the United Arab Emirates after securing a Retail Payment Services License–Category II from the Central Bank of the UAE.
May 17, 2025
Airwallex merchants in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US can now accept payments from Discover and Diners Club cards. More than 150,000 businesses worldwide use Airwallex services including payments, treasury, spend management and embedded finance.
May 7, 2025
U.S. Payment Forum has released a white paper, “Optimizing EMV Testing and Certification: Automation Strategies for Streamlining Payment Acceptance.” The white paper is available for download, free of charge, on the U.S. Forum’s website. for your free download click here.
March 20, 2025
WORLDPAY, the top merchant acquirer in the UK, offers ecommerce merchants that use its hosted payment pages Click to Pay card acceptance in partnership with Visa. No merchant integration is required. Visa cardholders registered for Click to Pay do not need to manually enter card details.
May 6, 2025
Brite Payments’ open banking-based A-2-A real time payments technology will be offered to e-commerce merchants in Germany by Oxid eSales, which represents more than 100 companies that sell to online shops.
Nilson in the News
April 28, 2025
Durbin to keep pushing card bill
"It would be no small change, given that Visa and Mastercard handle about 87% of all transactions when consumers swipe their cards, according to industry research firm Nilson Report. (That’s all cards, but they dominate the market for credit cards alone too."
April 23, 2025
Capital One–Discover merger gets final green light from US regulators
"According to Nilson Report data, Discover held approximately 3.7% of US credit card purchase volume in 2023, while Capital One accounted for nearly 5%."
April 21, 2025
Capital One, Discover merger is officially a go
"The typical credit card interchange fee is 2.2 percent, according to The Nilson Report."
April 4, 2025
Debit cards top Fed’s fraud troubles list: survey
"Over the next decade, fraud losses in card payments are predicted to reach $403.88 billion globally, according to a Nilson Report analysis released in January."
April 2, 2025
Banking Groups Slam the Credit Card Competition Act, Warning of Harmful Consequences
"The pending reintroduction of the Credit Card Competition Act comes at a time when card use of all types is growing in the U.S. Card spending across American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa cards topped $10.7 trillion in 2024, according to recent data from the Nilson Report."
February 26, 2025
Amex, Alipay target fast-growing China market
"The Amex move comes as worldwide card use is expected to jump 43% worldwide by 2029, with the Asia-Pacific region experiencing the biggest increase — 46.8%, compared to 27% for the U.S., according to January report from the research firm Nilson Report."
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