Defining new payment interfaces the easy way with Aviso Novate
The payments business is bedeviled by diversity. Messaging standards for international card schemes like Visa and Mastercard can vary from country to country, country specific card standards abound...
View ArticleUnionPay: a bull in a China shop
UnionPay is hot on the heels of Visa and MasterCard. Not yet a teenager in the credit card world China’s UnionPay is the upstart that the old men, Visa and MasterCard, now fear. UnionPay has achieved...
View ArticleGeo-political issues and Apple Pay
Back in March, at the height of the Crimean crisis, Visa and MasterCard blacklisted certain Russian banks and prominent Russian businessmen. They did so at the behest of the White House. Certain...
View ArticleChina-ready: the importance of UnionPay card acceptance
The UnionPay card juggernaut will be well fuelled for some time yet thanks to the relaxation of Visa restrictions; a burgeoning Chinese middle class, and a craving for consumerism. The question is are...
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