About Payments Cards and Mobile
Launched in November 1994, European Card Review set the highest standards of editorial coverage in its area of the publishing business, blending timely items of news with in-depth analysis and features contributed by a range of outside experts.
In 2009 ECR LLP was re-branded to PaymentsCM LLP and European Card Review was merged with Mobile Payments – an industry leading magazine – to create Payments Cards and Mobile.
PaymentsCM offers a niche portfolio of services for the Payments Card and Mobile Payments industries. With a 15 year heritage in the industry we are ideally positioned to help drive small, medium and large companies to achieve focussed goals within the Payments Card and Mobile Payments industries.
Our services include:
Consulting – PCM Consulting has experts within our network throughout the world. PCM Consulting only uses consultants with a long history within the banking, payments and mobile industries. PCM Consulting is especially proficient in SEPA, PSD, Card Networks, Mobile Payments Mobile Money Transfer and Mobile Contactless Payments.
Research – PCM Research prepares short bulletins for its leading magazines: Payments Cards and Mobile and Mobile Payments World. PCM Research also extends these bulletins into longer reports which can be downloaded from the Research pages. PCM Research is also available for bespoke research projects. PCM Research is proficient in Fraud, Banking at the Checkout, Country Reports, SEPA, PSD, Card Networks, Mobile Payments Mobile Money Transfer and Mobile Contactless Payments.
PR – PCM PR has partnered with MagnaCarta, an agency providing public relations, communications and marketing services for companies in the payments industry. MagnaCarta provides a network of hand-picked specialists around the globe, all with many years of payment expertise and experience. Because of low overheads, it is possible to provide director-level strategic and tactical support at very competitive rates.
Recruitment – PCM Recruitment has teamed with industry leaders Head Count to deliver a highly cost effective Recruitment service which thrives off the joint benefits which PaymentsCM’s databases and portals can offer to job seekers and companies looking to recruit. Headcount is an independent provider of executive and management recruitment solutions dedicated solely to the highly specialised needs of the transactional payments industry. Focusing on executive and management recruitment services for the payments industry worldwide, PCM Recruitment provides a full search and selection, contingency and contract recruitment service offering.
Publishing - Payments Cards and Mobile is the leading payment publication combining coverage of the card payment business with mobile and contactless payments worldwide. With the highest standards of editorial coverage Payments Cards and Mobile is mailed out to payment experts with over 11,000 copies per issue and distributed globally at all the major conferences and exhibitions. Mobile Payments World is the on-line newsletter, its mission is to record and explain trends in a rigorous, professional way. Mobile Payments World provides up to the minute news and analysis of developments, trends and key players in the Mobile Payments, Mobile Commerce, Mobile NFC and Mobile Money Transfer industries.
No other publications come near its combination of authoritative editorial coverage and broadly-based circulation to all the major players in the payment cards and mobile industry.
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Publishers Statement
Published bi-monthly, Payments Cards and Mobile is the leading magazine covering the payment cards and mobile payments business globally.
Payments Cards and Mobile mails out more than 11,000 copies per issue with many more distributed at targeted events throughout the year. Together with its electronic distribution, Payments Cards and Mobile will have the highest global distribution of any payment card and mobile payment industry publication. All will be validated by the UK’s Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Payments Cards and Mobile readers are senior industry executives with responsibility for managing all types of payment programmes. Payments Cards and Mobile is also required reading for central bankers, regulators, card association executives, telecommunication executives, consultants, vendors and service providers.
As well as editorial coverage of payments throughout Europe, USA and Asia, Payments Cards and Mobile has invested for the past 14 years in expanding its distribution in the dynamic emerging markets of central and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa and the Middle East, India and Latin America. Payments Cards and Mobile today has a stronger presence in these regions than any other payments publication.
Payments Cards and Mobile stays in close contact with trends in the industry, particularly card processing, NFC and contactless systems, POS terminals, mobile payments, internet payments and innovations in payment technology.
Other regular topics include country profiles, credit card programmes, debit cards, e-commerce, prepaid cards, supplier and vendor products, fraud and security. A wealth of tables and statistics provides essential industry data with every issue.
Published annually with the July/August issue, Payments Cards and Mobile’s standard-setting Buyers Guide is an essential reference work for suppliers and vendors and their customers, while the virtual version can be accessed all year round on Payments Cards and Mobile’s website.
Launched in November 1994 as European Card Review and re-branded in 2009, Payments Cards and Mobile sets the highest standards of editorial coverage in its area of the publishing business, blending timely items of news with in-depth analysis and features contributed by a range of outside experts.
No other publication comes anywhere near its combination of authoritative editorial coverage and broadly-based circulation to all the major players in the payment cards and mobile payment industry.
