In the UK, the prepaid cards market is expected to experience growth until at least 2017, but after the negative publicity that emerged from the retail sector in recent times, does prepaid still have a place in the cards and payment world?

By Owen Sween

As a race, we’re two years away from an era that the Back to the Future movies promised would be dominated by flying cars, self-drying clothes and hover boards. We can forgive Robert Zemeckis, Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd for any future predictions of technology and fashion, after all if we had told them all back in 1985 that before the flying car we would have personal communication devices that provided maps, weather information and educational reference at the touch of a button they’d probably pass us a business card for a good psychiatrist

By Owen Sweeney

An article published in the Wall Street Journal in late March has been the source of massive media speculation regarding the potential sale of Visa Europe in order to make way for a new rival card system

By Owen Sweeney

In the cards and payments world, the ways in which transactions are secured have evolved with the exciting technological developments witnessed by the advances in money transfer. We talk to Pat Carroll, CEO of ValidSoft, about the current payments security landscape

By Owen Sweeney

Modern consumers are used to shopping where they want and when they want. We examine how the financial industry is reacting, with omni-channel banking looking set to be the way of the future

By Owen Sweeney

Despite being the world’s biggest economy, in recent decades the United States has been one of the slowest to adopt new advances in technology. Now as the digital wallet and advances in micro-merchant technology spring to life, the US is set to become the standard-bearer in the world of global payments once again

By Owen Sweeney