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Visa to pilot blockchain based B2B payments

24 Nov 17 @ 09:48

At a major FinTech conference in Singapore, Visa announced that it is going to pilot its blockchain based B2B payments system called B2B Connect in mid-2018. Visa has partnered with... read more

SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme goes live

21 Nov 17 @ 09:00

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme created by the European Payments Council (EPC) is operational. As of today, nearly 600 payment service providers (PSPs)... read more

US banks launch RTP – real-time payments network

14 Nov 17 @ 14:23

The Clearing House (TCH) has launched RTP, its real-time payments system, the first new core payments infrastructure in the US in more than 40 years. The new RTP system was... read more

Apple Pay Cash launches P2P platform in Beta

08 Nov 17 @ 16:22

Apple rolled out Apple Pay Cash for those in its public beta program the service will act like virtual debit card, allowing P2P payments, to take on Venmo. Apple Pay Cash will... read more

Facebook Messenger launches P2P payments in the UK

07 Nov 17 @ 14:02

Facebook Messenger is enabling people in the UK to send money to each other via P2P payments in its Messenger texting app for the first time. The social network said Monday... read more

Australian Banks partner for mobile P2P payments JV – Beem

02 Nov 17 @ 16:59

Three of Australia’s largest banks, The Commonwealth Bank(CBA), National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac have partnered to create a new mobile P2P payments platform, named Beem. In the wake of their battle with... read more

Visa launch real-time payments platform Visa Direct in Europe

02 Nov 17 @ 16:34

Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments... read more

Google Tez hits over 7.5m users in 5 weeks

01 Nov 17 @ 10:38

Google has made several announcements around Google Tez, the payments app that the search giant had launched in India last month. Based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the NPCI’s payments platform for the... read more

Real time payments: Towards speed and transparency

01 Nov 17 @ 09:18

While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more

Indonesia takes steps towards a digital Fiat Currency

23 Oct 17 @ 11:05

eCurrency Mint Limited says that it has partnered with PayPro Indonesia to provide eCurrency’s digital fiat currency (DFC) solution in Indonesia. Through eCurrency’s solution, PayPro’s e-money product delivers a cryptographically protected, secure instrument... read more

A fresh look at Asia’s payment landscape

20 Oct 17 @ 09:33

Digital payments are growing rapidly in Asia, fuelled by increasing smartphone ownership and improving access to the internet. An increasing array of solutions such as digital wallets, mobile payment apps... read more

PSD2 and Europe’s Open Banking Mandate – a PCM report

18 Oct 17 @ 13:00

In a new report, PSD2 and Europe’s Open Banking Mandate, we aim to analyse the implications of the revised Payment Services Directive, PSD2, for the European banking industry and Open Banking... 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