Tuesday 11 March 2014

This week the SkyParlour team is descending on Earls Court, London for the UK’s biggest retail technology trade show, the RBTE. Throughout 11th & 12th March we will be manning our stand – 719, supporting clients with media opportunities, catching-up with old faces and meeting with new ones. Our exhibiting clients include Avalara at stand […]

Friday 28 February 2014

VeriFone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), announced today that Point, a VeriFone company, and Handelsbanken, one of the highest rated banks in the world, will provide a mobile payment managed services solution for micro merchants and other small businesses in Sweden that want to use smartphones and tablets to conduct transactions. Point is providing VeriFone’s EMV-compatible […]

Friday 28 February 2014

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the global trade association of the payments technology world, have announced a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch the third Payments Next Zone and E-Pay Innovation Award at TRANSACT 14, the world’s largest payments industry event. The Payments Next Zone (PNZ) will showcase innovative payments technology […]

Friday 21 February 2014

Financial technology and alternative lending provider, Advanced Merchant Payments received a splendid mention in Mr Osborne’s economy speech in Hong Kong yesterday. During his speech on achieving strong and sustainable growth, Osborne announced: “…On the other side of the river a small Hong Kong tech company called Advanced Merchant Payments will be opening in London’s Tech […]

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Realex Payments today published its annual ‘Top 3 Sectors – Trends and Transactions’ infographic for 2013 (downloadable here). Overall, Realex Payments volumes increased by 54% between 2012 and 2013, with in excess of 145 million transactions processed valued in excess of £20 billion. In addition, the company saw significant growth in its top 3 performing […]

Friday 14 February 2014

New research report from ePay Consulting Services, Merchant Acquiring: Leading Practices in Retention Management, highlights key trends and operational challenges that are impacting the merchant acquiring market today.   Merchant attrition is a growing concern for merchant acquirers and independent sales organizations (ISOs), and Retention Management needs to become a top strategic priority for organizations […]

Friday 17 January 2014

Disney, Hobbs, Homebase, John Lewis, French Connection, Fortnum and Mason, eBay, Google, the University of Oxford, Waitrose and Tui Travel are amongst the confirmed names billed to talk about how they are delivering multichannel retail results at the upcoming Internet Retailing Expo 2014 in March. 5000 international visitors from across the retail sector will connect […]

Wednesday 15 January 2014

With the holiday retail season now in the rearview mirror, Jumio, Inc. today released its December 2013 mobile commerce analysis, finding that retailers celebrated the most successful mobile holiday shopping season to date, yet still missed out on over £1.5 billion in sales due to the prevalence of outdated mobile payment experiences. While shoppers increasingly […]