Money & Payments

Worldline, one of the world’s largest payments firms, has agreed to buy Ingenico, the French transactions company, for EUR 7.8 billion.

Visa has agreed to buy start-up fintech Plaid, a group that connects firms to customers’ bank accounts, in one of the largest recent fintech deals made by the payments firm.

Like many other forms of financially motivated crime, malicious activity against ATMs is supported by an underground market of illicit offerings and resources.

The 2010s have been a decade of significant change, driven by technological advances which are showing little sign of slowing. Alongside this, market growth across multiple industries is being increasingly challenged by consumer behaviour.

Global money transfers now have more impact in emerging economies than foreign aid and foreign direct investment. But how and why have global money transfers grown and where will it go next?