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Biometrics for payments: what are the key trends?

07 Jun 18 @ 11:04

Isabelle Moeller, Chief Executive of the Biometrics Institute, gives her views on the key market trends in biometrics including border management and financial services.

Mastercard Send to launch real-time payments in the UK

07 Jun 18 @ 10:10

Mastercard says it will launch Mastercard Send in the UK. Mastercard Send is a payment service that allows financial institutions, FinTechs, digital customers and other businesses to send real-time payments... read more

OROBO and OpenWay to power cross-border money transfers

07 Jun 18 @ 09:57

OROBO, the newly-launched money transfer platform from Saana Holdings, is opening up cross- border money transfers and bill-payments into Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Serria-Leone and supporting financial inclusion in West Africa.... read more

Mastercard launch services to facilitate interactions between banks and third parties in Open Banking environment

05 Jun 18 @ 18:53

Mastercard says it has developed a new suite of services to underpin Open Banking transformations taking place in the industry as partners ready themselves to take advantage of Europe’s PSD2... read more

TransferWise teams with French bank Groupe BPCE

05 Jun 18 @ 09:11

TransferWise has teamed up with Groupe BPCE, in a deal that will give the money-transfer startup access to the banking group’s 15 million retail customers, the companies announced at Money... read more

Open Banking requires ‘Open Payments’ platforms to meet needs of connected customers

04 Jun 18 @ 12:38

A report published today by payments processor RS2 warns that the payment industry must consolidate omni-channel payments, card payments, and direct-from-bank Open Banking payments into new ‘Open Payments’ platforms to... read more

Starbucks’s mobile payments app has more users than Apple or Google

31 May 18 @ 16:16

According to new data from research firm eMarketer, by the end of this year, a quarter of US smartphone users — 55 million people to date — over the age... read more

Battle lines being drawn in Chinese payments apps Vs banks showdown

31 May 18 @ 16:02

In Hong Kong’s airport, Alipay’s azure blue logos began appearing two years ago greeting travellers from China who rely on the popular payments app back home. In recent months, taxis... read more

Abandoned purchases cost UK SMEs up to £28.5bn annually

31 May 18 @ 15:39

NCR Corporation has released research revealing a variety of challenges facing UK SMEs as they strive to remain profitable in an increasingly competitive market. The survey found that keeping up with... read more

Ant Financial signs bank technology deal as Chinese mobile payments explode

30 May 18 @ 15:59

Chinese banks posted robust growth in mobile payments in Q1 2018, according to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). Banking institutions handled 70.8 trillion yuan (11.1 trillion US dollars) in... read more

The Internet Security Threat Report 2018

30 May 18 @ 13:35

The Internet Security Threat Report notes that from the sudden spread of WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya, to the swift growth in coinminers, 2017 provided us with another reminder that digital security... read more

PayPal partners Google for deeper payments integration

25 May 18 @ 13:22

Google has deepened its relationship with PayPal, making it easier to make mobile payments on premium apps and services (like the new YouTube Music, for example). It’s been possible to... read more

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Visa turns the card into an identity credential

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. [caption id="atta... more

FCA probes Paypal, Mastercard and Visa competition

07 May 26 @ 16:30

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened a competition investigation into PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, examining whether commercial arrangements linked... more

Bank of England Warns DLT Complexity in Settlements

18 May 26 @ 17:07

The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant... more