All articles by Anna Milne
Anna Milne
Editing news and content for Electronic Payments International, a monthly magazine covering the global payments industry. You can reach her at anna.milne@uk.timetric.com
Grab your passports and run!
So with this Brexit thing looming heavily on the cards, what is in store for the UK fintech sector, and what exactly would be the repercussions of losing passporting rights? Anna Milne highlights The Emerging Payments Association’s research into the best potential locations for fintechs
To infin-tech-ity and beyond
With the onset of spring there’s a sense of shifting change in the payments world too. Or is it that I’ve just been to a very forward-looking payments conference in Berlin, namely Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE). New payments roles are coming into view as we limber up to PSD2. Anna Milne writes
Top 8 takeaways from MPE Berlin
If the learned experts in the world of payments are anything to go by at Merchant Payment Ecosystems in Berlin this year, the future of payments is all about mobile, open APIs and is pretty much in the hand of the internet giants
EPC chairman bashes Germany’s payments scene at German payments bash
It’s not often a conference speaker gets up and off the cuff delivers a singlehanded slating of a host country’s ecosystem that everyone would usually be there to promote.
Debit dominates Portugal’s card market but e-commerce and NFC are on the rise
Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crisis, which severely impacted the countrys payment cards market. Debit cards are the leading card type by a wide margin, with households generally cautious of debt. Contactless adoption is low but growing, and e-commerce is also encouraging consumer card payments
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MasterCard: An open and shut case?
The MasterCard consumer class action is the first major case of its kind in the UK, through which millions of consumers could receive compensation for MasterCard having overcharged retailer interchange fees during a certain period quite an extended period, as it happens. Anna Milne spoke to an industry solicitor for an insight
As Chinese New Year falls, could the mobile wallet come home to roost?
In the Chinese year of the rooster, the consumer could win out. There are currently a few consumer protection and competition issues coming to the fore, some of which may set a precedent. And in the context of a changing banking environment, arguably putting more control in the customers hands, for example the onset of PSD2 changes, it all points to a changing landscape. Anna Milne writes
Is contactless a tactless con?
We are always arguing the toss over contactless payments on this desk. Im definitely in the pro camp, having been completely won over by the speed and convenience of it
Time’s a-wastin’- make way for instant payments
Small and medium sized banks may not realise how affordable implementing instant payments into their systems can be, legacy systems in tow or not. Results of a new study show that the cost barrier to configuring a system to access these national schemes may not be as high as previously thought
Could Sohos fashionistas be shaping the future of monetary value and exchange?
From startup challenger bank to blockchain innovation and an offline payments and economics of value that could pave the way for a future model of consumer data ownership. Anna Milne meets Chris Gledhill of Secco Aura