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Virtual accounts: innovation to help banks exceed customer expectation

20 Jun 17 @ 11:29

Corporates are under increasing pressure to be more efficient and their expectations of their banks are changing as a result. Banks need to be innovative to meet client expectations. Virtual... read more

Global cybersecurity trends – Trustwave 2017 report

20 Jun 17 @ 10:57

Trustwave has released its 2017 cybersecurity report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2016. The report reveals both good and bad news in the world... read more

Contactless payments drive doubling of UK Card payments in 10 years

19 Jun 17 @ 14:14

The number of purchases using debit and credit cards has more than doubled in the past 10 years, as contactless payments and online retail have driven a change in the... read more

Bitcoin ends two year record run with 20% value crash

19 Jun 17 @ 13:53

Bitcoin plummeted 19% over the weekend, putting the digital currency on pace for its worst week since 2015, as volatility climbs following a record-setting surge in the price. After hitting... read more

Bank of America – Trends in Consumer Mobility Report

16 Jun 17 @ 13:47

The latest Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report explores emerging payments trends – specifically person-to-person payment technologies (P2P) that allow consumers to send money to others via their... read more

Misys partners with D+H to form mega FinTech company Finastra

16 Jun 17 @ 12:51

UK’s Misys and Canada-based D+H have merged to form a mega FinTech company, named as Finastra. The new company has been created after D+H was acquired by Vista Equity Partners,... read more

Banks to face fines totalling €4.7bn in first three years under GDPR

14 Jun 17 @ 16:55

A new report from Consult Hyperion, forecasts that European financial institutions could face fines totalling €4.7 billion in the first three years under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).... read more

WorldRemit partners Android Pay for mobile money P2P transfers

14 Jun 17 @ 15:57

WorldRemit has added Android Pay to its service, offering a new way for WorldRemit’s Android Pay users to send money internationally and reach millions using mobile money accounts. Launching the global... read more

Visa CEO Al Kelly: focused on Europe and “growing the payments pie”

13 Jun 17 @ 14:00

In recent Sanford Bernstein interview, Visa CEO Al Kelly, explained a number of opportunities and challenges facing the company, from Visa Europe to China and increasing digital payments. Kelly says in... read more

Fiserv makes £70m bid to buy embattled UK mobile payments company Monitise

13 Jun 17 @ 10:41

Fiserv is reported to have agreed to buy embattled UK financial services technology firm Monitise for £70m ($88.72 million). AIM-listed Monetise, worth about £2bn  at its peak in early 2014,... read more

PSD2 and Risk Based Authentication: The Issuer Story

13 Jun 17 @ 10:08

Issuers have been using Risk Based Authentication (RBA) to great success for some time now. With new legislation coming in, there is confusion in the market about what RBA means... read more

Is Amazon a bank: ramps up lending in challenge to big banks

12 Jun 17 @ 16:33

Amazon.com said Thursday that its Amazon Lending service has surpassed $3 billion in loans to small businesses since it was launched in 2011. Amazon is planning to expand its lending to... read more

US Banks debut faster P2P payments with Zelle network

12 Jun 17 @ 16:22

More than 30 US banks and credit unions are unveiling a unified service to customers this week, called Zelle, after years of watching Silicon Valley innovators from Square to Apple build... read more

Samsung expands Bixby voice controls with Samsung Pay

09 Jun 17 @ 12:42

Samsung has expanded its Bixby artificial intelligence (AI) platform to include the ability to make payments through Samsung Pay. The voice controlled virtual assistant is currently only available in South... read more

92% of FI’s surveyed ready to originate Same Day ACH debits

09 Jun 17 @ 12:28

NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association, the steward and rule maker of the ACH Network, has released results from a March-April 2017 qualitative survey of 24 financial institutions representing two-thirds of ACH... read more

Bitcoin Infograph – An insight on past events and what lies ahead

08 Jun 17 @ 09:34

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that operates independently without banking institutions and the government, there’s nothing physical about it – all virtual! It’s non-tangible, but renders gains for real. It flows... read more

IoT and Things Paying for Things are driving the future of commerce

08 Jun 17 @ 09:23

A new study released  by Visa entitled “How We Will Pay 2017,” found that more than 80% of Americans have a strong interest in using IoT and connected devices to make... read more

National mobile wallet service launches in United Arab Emirates

07 Jun 17 @ 10:32

The first nationally sanctioned mobile wallet solution for the United Arab Emirates has been launched. Emcredit, a fully owned subsidiary of the Dubai Economy, will launch empay, a secure mobile wallet... read more

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Visa tests the foundations of agentic payments in Europe

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial inte... more

Credit’s next competitive frontier beyond top of wallet

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. [caption id="attachment_52085" align="a... more

Visa and Fiserv partnership extends API-led acceptance platform

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more