Industry Events
MPE 2026 will bring together 1,600+ individuals representing companies that are redefining the merchant payments ecosystem, on March 17-19, in the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, Germany.
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.
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
February 10, 2026
VISA DIRECT’S global money movement network will connected to UnionPay International’s MoneyExpress platform in China. When fully operational by mid-year 2026, clients of Visa Direct will be able to send money to more than 95% of UPI’s debit cardholders in mainland China.
February 10, 2026
ACCESS BANK in Nigeria has launched a Visa Corporate Credit Card, a commercial card product that offers businesses working capital, expense management and a 45-day interest free period on new purchases. Uses include employee T&E expenses and fuel purchases.
February 10, 2026
SOCURE, provider of a global identity and risk decision platform, now offers Secure for Government RiskOS to help public sector organizations handle digital identity verification at scale. RiskOS was created to outwit AI tools available to cybercriminals that find the weaknesses in the delayed decisions and siloed risk programs of legacy identity systems. Socure also provides access to more than 180 third-party providers of services to public sector organizations and higher education institutions.
February 10, 2026
FINGERPRINT, provider of a device intelligence platform that is used to identify more than one billion unique devices every month for more than 6,000 customers, has launched Authorized AI Agent Detection, an ecosystem of AI agents, including OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser. The company promises that its ecosystem enables enterprises to have 100% certainty in distinguishing trusted, permissioned automation from malicious bots and scalpers.
February 10, 2026
SUMITOMO MITSUI CARD COMPANY (SMCC) will offer its small and midsize merchants in Japan Fiserv’s Clover suite of POS products beginning in late 2026. Clover’s platform will be tailored for Japan’s business environment to provide multistore support, smartphone-based operations and centralized management tools in addition to hardware devices. Clover is available in 12 countries, including recent launches in Brazil and Australia.
February 10, 2026
BOLT, provider of a one-click checkout, identity and payment platform for B2B and B2C commerce, has expanded the SuperApp it makes available to buyers to include embedded investing capabilities through a deal with Atomic. Under the partnership, Atomic will power white-cabled brokerage and investment functions. More than 80 million shoppers use Bolt.
Nilson in the News
January 8, 2026
Apple Card switches hands but no immediate changes for users
"The shift solidifies JPMorgan’s dominance in the credit card sector. The company was the top U.S. credit card issuer in 2024 based on more than $1.344 trillion in purchase volume, according to The Nilson Report. It’s the sixth year in a row that JPMorgan has held the top spot."
December 10, 2025
Credit card swipe fees are higher than ever, causing "cost creep"
"The average swipe fee Visa and Mastercard — the two biggest players — charged merchants last year was 2.35%, a new high, according to Nilson Report, an industry publication."
November 21, 2025
How consumers see card threats
:A Nilson Report released in January suggested fraud losses in card payments will reach $403.88 billion globally over the next ten years. Card-not-present transactions in the U.S. are particularly at risk, the report noted."
November 13, 2025
The golden age of US credit card rewards may be at an end
"Retailers, unsurprisingly, hate swipe fees, which last year doubled to $148bn from 2016 levels, according to The Nilson Report. For many, they rank second only to wages as a cost of doing business."
November 12, 2025
8 pros, cons of Visa-Mastercard pact
"Swipe fees on Visa and Mastercard credit cards totaled a record $111.2 billion last year, 11% higher than in 2023 and triple the cost a decade earlier, the Merchant Payments Coalition said in March, citing data from the Nilson Report."
November 8, 2025
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
"In 2023, banks and other financial institutions that issue Visa and Mastercard credit cards collected $72 billion of these interchange fees, according to the Nilson Report, a trade publication."
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