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Fnality: global banks invest $50 million in digital cash settlement project

23 May 19 @ 10:57

Recent reports have announced that several large global banks are in the process of investing around $50 million to create Fnality, a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle... read more

SWIFT trials instant cross-border gpi payments through TIPS

21 May 19 @ 08:25

SWIFT says that a group of banks are to trial instant gpi cross-border payments in Europe using the TARGET Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS) platform. The European Central Bank (ECB) and... read more

RBS launches merchant acquiring business NatWest Tyl

03 May 19 @ 09:38

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is launching a merchant acquiring service, NatWest Tyl, for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), heading back into the payments business, putting it in direct competition... read more

Is Visa really squaring up to Swift with Visa B2B Connect blockchain platform?

01 May 19 @ 11:02

Visa recently signed a deal enabling FIS’ clients to have access to Visa B2B Connect. The  uses blockchain to make high-value corporate payments internationally without using SWIFT. In order to... read more

Saudi Arabia’s SAMA to launch faster payments system

29 Apr 19 @ 11:17

The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), represented by Saudi Payments, has entered into agreement with Vocalink & IBM to develop the new faster payments system planned for launch at the... read more

PCM Feature: Acquiring and processing – the next wave

02 Apr 19 @ 15:09

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

FIS pays $43 billion for Worldpay as mega deal consolidation continues

18 Mar 19 @ 12:22

FIS has announced that it has offered $43 billion to buy Worldpay, in a deal that would create one of the largest providers of payments infrastructure that powers banks and... read more

Key questions for banks developing a card, mobile and IoT payments strategy

14 Mar 19 @ 12:45

That banks are struggling with complexity and how to manage competing priorities is nothing new. However, the growth of mobile and now IoT payments means that banks need a back-end... read more

Real-time payments and the growing obsolescence of cash

11 Mar 19 @ 17:14

According to the World Payments Report, the global volumes of non-cash transaction volumes grew by 10.1%, reaching 482.6 billion between 2015 and 2016. In addition, McKinsey’s recent Global Payments 2018... read more

Mastercard ditches Earthport bid in favour of Transfast acquisition

11 Mar 19 @ 08:49

Mastercard dropped out of the competitive bidding with rival Visa for Earthport and announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Transfast, a competitor account-to-account money transfer network. Transfast... read more

EC sets sights on TIPS challenging Visa and Mastercard European dominance

06 Mar 19 @ 10:38

The European Commission (EC) has been reported to be considering implementing new regulations to support and accelerate the adoption of TARGET Instant Payments Settlement System (TIPS) in an effort to... read more

SEPA Proxy Lookup: Pan-European P2P payments interoperability becomes reality

06 Mar 19 @ 10:37

The SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) service, a new service that creates secure interoperability between existing mobile P2P payments services has launched. The SPL service is ready to be used, and... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more