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
March 4, 2026
CLIP, a digital commerce platform serving small and midsized merchants in Mexico, is promoting its Tap to Pay for smartphones. The company says that merchants can use the Clip app to activate the service in five minutes. Tap to Pay turns a merchant’s smartphone into a contactless payment terminal, enabling payments to be accepted immediately and securely without additional hardware.
March 4, 2026
ERICSSON’S Fintech Platform for mobile financial services operates in 22 countries, serving more than 120 million active users. The platform, which processes more than four billion transactions monthly tied to digital wallets, remittances, lending and loyalty services, has been integrated into Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s suite
of money movement services.
March 4, 2026
AMAZON has launched pay by bank in the UK. Customers select their bank from a list that covers more than 99% of UK banks. The checkout experience resembles the use of their mobile banking apps. The framework of the UK’s National Payments Vision promotes account-to-account payment options for consumer and business purchases.
March 4, 2026
BENJI PAYS, a Canada-based accounts receivable automation platform for managed service providers and small businesses, has launched Benji Payments, leveraging Adyen for Platforms as its payment service provider. The company’s customers can use their own payment gateway or choose between an integrated turnkey service. Features of Benji Pays include reconciliation automation, surcharging and merchant onboarding.
March 4, 2026
WANDERWALLET provides cross-border payment infrastructure that enables travelers, expats and digital nomads to access domestic instant payment networks and QR code payments in Latin America. The company is live in Brazil (Pix) and Argentina (Mercado Pago) and has recently expanded into Bolivia with support for local QR payments. QR payments are widely used in Bolivia across retail, restaurants, transport and other merchant categories.
March 4, 2026
UATP, operator of a global closed-loop network focused on business travel payments for corporations, has entered a partnership with Mica, a company that offers a credentialless transaction processing model aimed at enhancing or replacing legacy payment card networks. The partners plan to enable merchants to allocate a single booking across multiple payment types in one transaction while managing the settlement and reconciliation.
Nilson in the News
March 13, 2026
Credit-card cash reshapes US airline loyalty — and profit
"David Robertson of the Nilson Report said that if redeeming miles feels out of reach, some consumers may abandon airline cards, potentially prompting pressure from banks that buy miles in bulk."
March 4, 2026
CCCA seeks new path to passage
"Visa, the largest U.S. network, and No. 2 Mastercard, dominate the industry, controlling about 77% of the market in the U.S. credit card market, according to the research firm Nilson Report."
March 4, 2026
ACI Worldwide Unveils Connetic for Cards Payments Hub
"Despite the rise of real-time payments, cards continue to dominate globally. Fuelled by contactless adoption, e-commerce growth and B2B digitisation, global card transactions totalled 776 billion in 2024 and are projected to reach 1.1 trillion annually in 2029 – a 43% increase, according to research from Nilson Report."
January 12, 2026
Heavy metal’s hot in payment cards
"The number of payment cards circulating globally has nearly doubled since 2015, to 18.1 billion last year, but yearly growth rates have slowed since 2021, according to Nilson Report data CompoSecure cited in an August investor presentation."
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."
Nilson in the News
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