Simon Fairbairn, Head of Professional Services EMEA, Terminals, Solutions & Services at Worldline, looks at why Android payment devices are on the rise and what this innovation will mean for merchants and estate owners.
Banking Circle, the financial infrastructure provider, today announces that it is now completely cloud-based, with all aspects of its infrastructure hosted within Microsoft Azure. This includes its purpose built, cloud-first, cross border payments platform, which delivers greater speed, enhanced functionality, and a more intuitive user experience to its clients.
Over the course of the pandemic, PPS’ HR Director, Corinne Williams, has worked tirelessly to deploy a pioneering strategy to ensure the safety of the company’s 250 strong workforce over the last year, with various processes in place to roll out homeworking through tailored kits and a top-class well-being programme. All of this to ultimately continue to maintain its high level of operations for some of today’s leading brands that are changing the face of financial services as we know it.
Brian Hanrahan explores the current climate, with COVID-19 leading to significant economic downturn, shedding light on how holdbacks from acquirers are becoming more prevalent.
Learn how Nuapay’s Account-2-Account payments, funds are delivered in real-time as no acquiring bank is required to facilitate payments. This means no more holdbacks, giving businesses in at-risk sectors the breathing room they need to survive in challenging economic conditions.
W2, award winning global provider of regulatory compliance solutions today announced their partnership with market leading payments provider Contis to supply end-to-end KYC/AML processes for customer onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
Nuapay, powered by Sentenial, announces it is extending its open banking payment capabilities to German and Italian banks. This expansion will enable German and Italian partners to offer open banking payment solutions, powering seamless account-2-account payments for their customers.
This rollout connects 308 banks in Italy and 435 banks in Germany to Nuapay’s Open Banking platform, connecting 134 million European accounts and reaching 98% and 70% of payers in each country.
Rush has partnered with EML Payments to deliver its prepaid Mastercard card.
Ordo is on a mission to make paying and getting paid easy, helping everyone control their finances, from large enterprises to small businesses and consumers. Using Open Banking technology, Ordo has digitised the process from buying goods or a service, invoicing, payment, reconciliation and confirmation to make it seamless for business and easy for payers.
Ordo has partnered with CGI, independent IT and business consulting services firm delivering an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions.
Together they helped PFP energy, a not-for-profit energy company, or as they like to call it ‘Profit for Purpose’….a partnership with that warm fuzzy feeling.
Payment initiation is a new type of payment method made possible with open banking. Essentially, it works by letting customers connect to their banks and authorise a payment directly from their accounts. Here’s what that looks like, and what advantages it brings compared to other payment options.
Moneyou saw PSD2 as a key enabler of innovative banking services and planned to exploit all aspects of the new regulations to provide both market-leading functionality and value to their growing user base. Moneyou needed to find a way to build a compliant solution with minimum effort and impact on their systems and identified Konsentus as being the ideal partner to achieve this.
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Fintech and Payments Association member Paynetics discuss digitising loyalty and their latest partnership with promotional campaign leader Benamic to power a new, mobile first corporate card programme for the B2B market.
The recipe for success in the e-commerce business is much the same as any other entrepreneurial endeavor except it comes with many opportunities for growth and leverage that physical businesses don’t have.
Online business may be the future of many markets, and for good reason. From scalability of immediately needed resources to cost-effective innovation and optimization, we have identified five key elements of success for e-commerce business in the modern age:
E-commerce businesses can’t put enough of a premium on online cybersecurity and protection against threats. Not only can malicious actors steal data and commit fraud, but they can also completely undermine a customer’s confidence in your business.
To avoid costly fraud and cyber threats, we’ve found five primary areas of focus that e-commerce businesses need to keep in mind as they move forward in the online market:
As part of a European Union mandate called the Revised Directive on Payment Services, or (PSD2), merchants operating in the EU economic zone must use payment service providers within the European Economic Area that offer what is known as strong customer authentication.
This is also sometimes referred to as the SCA requirement or the PSD2 compliance. In essence, this directive ensures that transactions occurring within the EU’s economic territories make use of multi-factor authentication in order to verify a buyer’s identity.
The promises of the European Union single market, while not full borne out in the reality of the business world, where the same are actually still far from the dream promised when it comes to the virtual single market. What does this mean?
In other words, the European Union might act as a single market when it comes to monetary issues and beyond, but the EU single digital market is hampered and its growth restricted by a myriad of factors including various compliance regimes and the logistical mastery needed to make it all work.
Intuit QuickBooks, the small business platform, today announces it has entered into an agreement with Payments-as-a-Service FinTech, Modulr. Modulr will power the new QuickBooks Business Account, a new digital payment account[1] designed specifically for small businesses.
By providing payments infrastructure and digital payments expertise, the collaboration will allow QuickBooks to combine an industry leading business account with its suite of bookkeeping, accounting and tax tools, building on its vision to be ‘The One Source of Truth for a Small Business’.
Why Netflix, JustEat and Uber made your payments experience a whole lot harder
Aka Why Poor Payment Processes Are Hampering Customer Experience Transformation
As more and more organizations have gone digital, there has been a parallel proliferation of cyberattacks that attempt to damage, disrupt or gain unauthorized access to the computer systems of banks and other financial institutions.
So while banks and payment providers are looking for ways to streamline the onboarding process, they must ensure that they build in the necessary safeguards to protect their ecosystems, reputation and accounts owners.
New data from Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, reveals that new account fraud based on ID verification declined 23.2% worldwide YOY in 2020, compared to 2019 results. At the same time, selfie-based fraud rates were five times higher than ID-based fraud.
Moorwand, the payments solution provider which aims to transform compliance into an enabler of innovation, has launched ‘Dear Luc’, a new payments agony uncle column with Fintech Futures.
The mobility industry needs a game-changer now more than ever and a great place to start would be to take online payments on your website.
Vacuumlabs has announced a global partnership with Thought Machine following the two firms’ successful cooperation in Asia.
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 | LONDON, UK | BY JAMES THORPE Lloyds Bank customers can now pay their credit card bills via their mobile app, leveraging Mastercard’s open banking technology. Mastercard’s
FEBRUARY 4, 2021 | LONDON NatWest Group to switch all Debit portfolios to Mastercard Mastercard and NatWest Group today announced an expansion of their payments partnership by agreeing to convert
From currency notes to cheques and then banking cards to completely virtual transactions— the payments industry has come a long way in the last 100 years. The progression in the payment industry has also fuelled growth across the industrial spectrum.
SMB market in the US has been neglected for a long and now there is a lot of space to serve it right. Find out how!
[Webinar] Attend our webinar with The Paypers to learn how merchants and the wider payments ecosystem are prioritising 2021 resources towards building or enhancing risk models. Tuesday, March 30, 3:00 PM GMT
Fulham Football Club is delighted to welcome Sokin as an Official Partner for the next three seasons, until the end of the 2022-2023 campaign.
Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transactional services, is proud to announce that the company is the world’s first payments player to achieve Mastercard Enhanced Contactless (Ecos) certification released in the end of January, on its new contactless standard for POS device through Ingenico, a Worldline brand since October 2020.
Fintech and trusted payments enabler Paynetics has partnered with Benamic, the global leader in promotional fulfilment, to develop its mobile first, digital corporate card programme.
3 reasons why you should consider offering credit to consumers
Open banking payments are new, but where this payment option is offered to consumers, adoption is skyrocketing. TrueLayer CEO & Co-Founder, Francesco Simoneschi, shares some data points which challenge the myth that open banking payments are not ready to go mainstream.
When building a new bank, is it advantageous to be already part of a much bigger established big bank, or might that actually hamper your progress?
How does SMB market look like in the US? Learn not only about this in our latest episode with Anthony Strike from SteadiPay!
Vacuumlabs, the global provider of full-stack fintech solutions, and strategic management consultants Manifesto Growth Architects recently hosted a market-and delivery-focused virtual event, Banking 2021, that brought together key industry players to speak to critical challenges across the banking industry’s new competitive landscape. What are the 5 key takeaways?
Are high street banks effectively taking opportunity of their customer base and provide them sufficient services such as investments, trading or saving?
How to provide 30 million SMBs access to sophisticated financial products, and drive innovation? That’s the question SteadiPay asked, as it finds ways to bring modern Fintech offerings to this underserved market.
America’s first dedicated consumer privacy watchdog is beginning to take shape, aiming to replace the “two strikes you’re out” framework with a “speeding ticket” one. The new enforcement model brings a risk of higher administrative fines and less chance to escape liability but businesses receive guidance and still have time to become compliant.
Holders of Estonia’s controversial cryptocurrency licences are being widely used by online investment scams to accept payments from victims, an investigation by VIXIO has found.
Since the 2008 financial crash, the rise in technology companies looking to help us make better decisions in our finances, using data and sometimes easier to navigate apps than our traditional banks, has created a host of so-called FinTechs emerging into the market.
Which of these FinTechs could help you?
Payments Association member Ozone API are powering the launch of TecBan’s open finance platform in Brazil.
With a full open finance regulation being implemented in Brazil in 2021, the market could soon eclipse other open banking markets around the world due to it’s scale and the breadth of the regulation.
– Introduction
– Evolution of Ransomware
– Beyond Windows
– Financial and Banking Sector
– Vulnerabilities and Malware
– Conclusions
– The Now: Rise of digital banking to cause further online banking fraud
– The New: Increase in new account fraud
– How can we stop these types of attacks as we enter 2021?
– Conclusion
The payments platform continues its successful start to 2021 with landmark announcement that sees it establish its role as a pivotal player in the cross-border payments space
If your goal is to service the largest percentage of market users, respect must be given across all accessibility levels. But what is a reliable solution for non-smartphone users? In this post, we review our remote dial option as a reliable PSD2 SCA fallback.
A new Visa debit card from European neobroker Bitpanda launched this week. Combining Contis’ unique “zero-balance” Buffer technology with Bitpanda’s European-wide, multi-service platform has created one of the most powerful multi-asset propositions available – the Bitpanda Card.
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