FinTech

19 Nov 19 @ 12:36

New research from Emerging Payments Association reveals that realtime payments are growing rapidly in the UK and deploying widely worldwide, signifying potential for business payments for banks and FinTechs. The... read more

12 Nov 19 @ 12:03

Around the world, banks are opening up their customers’ financial data (with the customers’ consent) to third parties through application programming interfaces (APIs). The global trend of Open Banking allows... read more

12 Nov 19 @ 10:41

Visa has announced it will acquire a “significant minority” stake in Nigerian payments platform Interswitch. Interswitch did not provide financial details in its statement but media reports indicate that Visa... read more

04 Nov 19 @ 16:58

Last month, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced an 18-month delay to the implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). However, the delay to PSD2 – which follows UK FCA’s own... read more

04 Nov 19 @ 14:04

The dynamic payments industry continues to expand and evolve, with digital payment vehicles and transaction volumes growing across the globe. Over the past year, industry incumbents have been responding to... read more

31 Oct 19 @ 10:20

Within today’s connected, digital environment, bank executives realise that customer satisfaction standards must stack up not only to those of other firms providing financial services, but also with non-industry businesses... read more

30 Oct 19 @ 12:58

Financial inclusion for SMEs is a hot topic for European governments, financial institutions, banking representatives and small business associations. All recognise that SMEs are a significant part of the region’s... read more

29 Oct 19 @ 11:25

It is forecasted that mobile banking is set to be more popular than visiting a high street bank branch within two years. And as the banking industry continues its digital... read more

28 Oct 19 @ 13:49

The banking industry is saturated with buzz words and all banks need to be seen to be advocates of these words, whether it’s Open Banking and PSD2, or agile work... read more

22 Oct 19 @ 11:17

Research has found that 86% of finance companies say that a lack of ability to migrate legacy apps to the cloud is impacting their business negatively, despite 85% viewing digital... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 15:03

Our first blog in this series looked at Strong Customer Authentication, and provided the Maxa answer to this challenge. In this blog, we chart the rapid growth of contactless payments... read more

30 Sep 19 @ 15:32

Challenger banks such as Metro Bank, and even larger foreign banks such as Santander, as well as branchless FinTechs such as Monzo, were supposed to break the dominance of the... read more