Changes in banks’ regulatory capital requirements for businesses are leading banks to exit or downsize lines of business and increase the focus on other lines of business. Payments is an area where banks and non-banks are significantly increasing their commitments. Over the next five years the payments industry will change its entire shape, structure, and offerings. In the past, the complexi[...]

Visa has announced it is assessing whether to sell its investment in mobile payment software developer and transactions processor Monitise. Visa formed an alliance with Monitise in 2009 to provide Visa with mobile platform development services. The agreement runs through 2016. As part of the agreement, Visa made a capital investment in Monitise and received 14.4% of the company's equity. Ov[...]

Mastercard and Visa are taking very different approaches to the payments market, resulting in very different operating outcomes. Mastercard is focusing on growth in emerging markets and merchant acquiring (especially consulting services for merchants); Visa is pursuing mature markets with aggressive cost control and sales incentives to drive revenue growth.  Top line results for [...]

TSYS' full year 2013 revenues (including reimbursables) were $2.1bn, a growth of 14.0%. The underlying fundamentals of the business (number of accounts on file and transaction volumes) grew aggressively in 2013, increasing 13% and 15% respectively.  In 2013 TSYS continued to enjoy strong revenue and earnings growth. Growth in the merchant business is continuing[...]

This CSD based in Brussels has the licensing to address compliance issues (which are expensive for an individual institution to address) in a cost-effective manner for the European market. This is an early move in a very important area of securities processing that changing regulations are impacting heavily. [...]

Changes in compliance requirements are the highest priority right now at capital markets firms. To date little has been done to address the required changes anticipated. This initiative to address KYC and client on-boarding is one of the earliest attempts to implement a response to the changing regulatory requirements. This announcement of cooperation with two of the largest global banks is a[...]

Money transfer has been the fastest growing segment of money transfer services. A global network is necessary to succeed in this business. This new offering makes sense for Euronet, as it leverages their existing network. This offering should also grow much faster than the corporate business over the next five years. [...]

Jack Henry has announced fiscal Q4 2013 revenues, for the period ending June 30, 2013, of $298.2m, up 12.0% year-over-year. A strong quarter and year built off strong growth in services. Jack Henry achieved accelerating revenue growth and earnings growth each quarter in FY 2013. Like many solution vendors, Jack Henry found its services grew, while product sales shrank. Jack Henry will hav[...]