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European banking heavyweights set to collaborate on blockchain

17 Jan 17 @ 09:46

Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale and UniCredit signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the development of a shared cross-border trade finance platform for small and... read more

Seven critical changes to payments industry as FinTech matures

17 Jan 17 @ 09:34

The FinTech sector is being shaped by shifting market conditions, new regulations, and changes in consumer demands and behaviors. For the past decade, FinTech companies have moved quickly, forcing incumbents to... read more

Open data – competition needs to work for both FinTechs and Banks

16 Jan 17 @ 17:14

“Silicon Valley is coming”.  That’s what JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wrote to shareholders in 2015.  Dimon had been to the Valley and seen money pouring in to innovative start-ups,... read more

Worldline and Hease Robotics sign payments partnership

08 Jan 17 @ 15:30

Worldline has entered into a mutually beneficial co-development relationship with Hease Robotics, a French B2B service robot manufacturer, delivering interaction-oriented robots to the retail and hospitality industries. Worldline and Hease Robotics... read more

Nigerian payments digitisation continues as POS transactions hit $2bn

05 Jan 17 @ 13:04

Nigerian payments digitisation has continued to gather momentum as the value of transactions through POS channels across the country increased significantly by 65% to N651.37 billion ($2.07 billion) between January and... read more

Non-cash payments across US and UK to soar by 2026

14 Dec 16 @ 15:53

The value of non-cash payments in the US and UK will reach $46 trillion and £1.44 trillion respectively by 2026, new research from global law firm Paul Hastings shows. In... read more

Predictive Analytics: Predicting the future of financial services?

06 Dec 16 @ 12:30

The window of opportunity is closing for banks to leverage their data to get ahead in digital services, says a new report from the Mobey Forum. Predictive Analytics in the... read more

Cash replacement: The $19 trillion opportunity

05 Dec 16 @ 10:59

A NEW STUDY from the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum estimates the global value of micro, small and medium retailers’ transactions at $34 trillion per annum. An... read more

FIS expands real-time P2P payment offering with Zelle

30 Nov 16 @ 08:03

FIS has announced the expansion of its real-time P2P payments suite with plans to offer Early Warning’s Zelle P2P service to extend its comprehensive faster-payments solutions. The partnership with Early... read more

Royal Mint collaborate on launch of blockchain based digital gold

29 Nov 16 @ 12:54

The Royal Mint is set to launch a digital gold offering which will be traded on blockchain – to be made available around mid-2017. The blockchain-based gold product, called Royal... read more

UK payments industry going through biggest shake-up in a generation

29 Nov 16 @ 09:54

The UK payments industry is about to see its biggest change in a generation according to the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). The comments come as the Payments Strategy Forum, a... read more

FinTech Disruptors Report 2017: Banks say partnering with Fintechs is essential

22 Nov 16 @ 12:23

A survey of financial institutions, FinTech start-ups and ecosystem participants across Europe, Africa and the Middle East has revealed that the convergence between the strategies of FinTechs and traditional financial... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more

UK Moves to Open iPhone Contactless Payments to Apple Pay Rivals

22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more