The People's Bank of China recently announcedthe first 27 licensees of non-bank payment service providers inChina, out of the 32...

Recently there has been some market chatter thatChina UnionPay's monopoly in the domestic payment card market inChina might be ending...

It should not be surprising at all thatPayPal is a global company providing online payment services acrossmany countries in addition...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI, Russia's centralbank) has been reforming the country's payment system, including adomestic card network that...

Electronic banking hasbeen growing quickly around the world over the past severaldecades, in both developed and developing countries. And, in...

During the Prepaid Expo show last week inOrlando, FL, the Wednesday theme of the conference wasinternational prepaid. We had Wal-Mart...

A main driving force of the ongoing regulatorypressure on interchange fees worldwide has been the merchants, whohave been complaining about...

Sometimes it is hard to overestimate thegovernment's role in facilitating (or demanding) the development ofmodern electronic payments in different countries.According...

The global economic downturn and the European debt crisis havecaused great concern to European economies over the past few years.Consequently...

On January 25, 2011, SYSCAN (a 2D bar codesolution provider in China) issued a circular announcing theacquisition of Country Praise,...