Why Regulation Must Keep Pace with Payment Innovation Ahead of Proposed BoE Innovation
The Government intends to add innovation to the Bank of England’s remit, alongside its primary...
IT Leaders Wrestle with AI, Sovereignty, Supply Chain and Deployment Flexing Conundrums
Concerns over AI best practices, digital sovereignty compliance, access to hardware and need for...
Black Friday Payments: Is the Retail Estate Ready for Peak?
- 6 days 3 hours ago 04:00 am
- Jean-Philippe Niedergang, Acting Group CEO / EMEA-PACIFIC-LATAM CEO at Castles Technology
On Black Friday last year, Barclays recorded card transactions 62% above its average day for 2025....
The Cost of Managing Multiple Payment Providers: Where the Money Actually Goes
Often, payment teams I speak with can quote their blended processing rate to two decimal places. Very...
The Next Phase of Crypto Payments Is About Removing Complexity
As more businesses explore crypto payments, the real question is no longer whether the technology works...
How to Improve Payment Approval Rate When You Already Have Several PSPs
Ask a payments team for their payment approval rate, and you will get a number within seconds. Ask how...
How SaaS Platforms Monetize Payments and Who Keeps the Margin
A few years ago, embedded payments differentiated vertical SaaS. Today, merchants expect to take...
DORA Without the Guesswork: Turning Fragmented Logs into an Evidence Layer
Most organisations already sit on vast amounts of telemetry, but very little of it is organised,...
Merchant Onboarding Is Where Payment Businesses Win or Stall
Ask a payment business how growth is going, and you'll usually hear about leads, signed contracts, and...
The Missing Discovery Layer in Global Payments
Today, a merchant can accept a payment from a customer on another continent in a few seconds. Finding a...
















