Jacob De Geer started one of the world’s fastest-growing payments companies, iZettle. In looking to solve his wife’s problem of how to take payments as a micro-merchant, he inadvertently created a company valued at $3 billion. He tells Owen Sweeney how it all happened

By Owen Sweeney

A month ago, hardly anyone had heard of a Bitcoin. Now, after the price has skyrocketed in the last few weeks, there are few people who aren’t aware of the phenomenon.

By Paul McNulty

Lafferty Insights caught up with Adrian Kamellard, Chief Executive of the UK Payments Council, to discuss the Council’s account switching and mobile payments strategies which are planned to roll out over the next 12 months

By Owen Sweeney

The big players of mobile technology gather in Barcelona this month at the Mobile World Congress 2013. This year, the state-of-the-art Fira Gran Via hosts the congress. The impressive new site has been chosen to allow the show to grow and expand in the years to come. The Congress was once just an arena for the mobile phone giants to battle each other with new product releases and partnerships as weapons, but now the show has diversified for the better in allowing cards and payment technology companies to infiltrate the event one kiosk at a time

By Owen Sweeney

By Owen Sweeney

Jerome Svigals carried around a cardboard prototype of a credit card in his wallet for the last 50 years. Here, he tells how he sold it for $23,750

By Jerome Svigals