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11 Jan 22 @ 10:42

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which oversees financial stability, is to take steps to bolster banks on the cloud. Data storage is a systemic vulnerability just like financial risk. The regulator... read more

15 Dec 21 @ 09:15

JCB International and Planet have announced the expansion of their European partnership. This new deal ensures Planet will perform as a JCB acquirer across European territories for both face-to-face and... read more

08 Dec 21 @ 09:01

Eurobank, one of the four largest lenders in Greece, has announced it entered into a binding agreement to sell 80% of its merchant acquiring business to Worldline in an attempt to... read more

25 Nov 21 @ 11:46

A consortium of 70 Japanese firms, including the country’s three  largest banks, says it will aim to launch a yen-based digital currency in 2022 after beginning trials in coming months.... read more

23 Nov 21 @ 14:09

UnionPay, the card scheme with the world’s largest cardholder base, has announced that it has signed a new market development agreement for the Nordics with Nets. The agreement will enable... read more

19 Nov 21 @ 09:15

B2B Payments bank, Banking Circle, has joined the Danish national intraday clearing system. Through Banking Circle as a direct clearing participant, Payments businesses and Banks can now pay out and... read more

18 Nov 21 @ 18:03

At Spain’s Caixabank most customers visiting a branch for a service they could access online will now have to pay €2 for the privilege. The fees are part of a shift... read more

20 Oct 21 @ 16:23

HSBC is to launch a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering that will enable customers to create and provide business banking services through their own platforms. HSBC and Oracle NetSuite... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 13:58

Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged payment messages for a faster cross-border payments as part of a proof of concept demonstrating the feasibility of synchronising settlement... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:05

R3 has acquired the technology and team of the financial asset tokenization specialist Ivno, enabling the use of Ivno-developed capabilities across the Corda platform. This acquisition further strengthens R3’s capabilities in the... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:00

The latest study from Banking Circle has revealed the new challenges faced by CIOs and CTOs working in Banks and FinTechs. The insight from the Payments bank for the new... read more

08 Sep 21 @ 08:15

PayPal has agreed to acquire Paidy, a leading two-sided payments platform and provider of buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions in Japan, for ¥300 billion or approximately $2.7 billion, principally... read more