For many of our customers and their end customers, direct debit, especially online, is still the most popular payment method: Because it costs the least, everyone knows it and everything is processed easily and transparently. This is how it will remain in regulatory terms until...
Something is happening in ePayment: Mobile payment is gaining in importance and SEPA Instant Payments will continue to fuel this trend in this country. Banks in this country are currently also using their own payment apps for smartphones. Here, the NFC in smartphones is accessed...
The mergers of large payment network operators continue: The two French payment service providers (formerly Atos) Worldline and Ingenico merge through takeover. This means that Worldline will bring in the Atos, PaySquare, Equens and SIX-Payment Services SPS units and Ingenico will bring PayOne (consisting of...
Cashless payment is on the rise in Germany. According to a Forsa survey commissioned by PayPal, 54% of respondents now state that they prefer cashless payment methods. So far, payment via smartphone has tended to be the exception, but devices continue to gain in importance in...
As announced by golem.de , there are new terms of use for Microsoft 's cloud services, which are currently causing a stir. No more content may be uploaded that contains nudity, pornography or "offensive language" . Microsoft could also listen to Skype conversations. With new...
paydirekt, the payment method used by German banks and savings banks, has received the gold eGovernment Award for the second time in a row. Also this year, the IT magazine "eGovernment Computing" called on its readers to evaluate innovative solution concepts for the digitization of...