February 2019

Project Inclusion has published a thought leadership piece on how the Payments Association and the wider payments industry can widen access and improve the quality of financial products available to

With the human and monetary cost of financial exclusion higher than ever, the The Payments Association has set out ambitious plans to widen access to – as well as improve

Project International Trade has published a thought leadership piece on the transformation of the payments landscape in India and its potential market growth. Penned by Kevin McAdam, project lead of

Project Financial Crime published a white paper which calls for the UK financial services industry to do more to face down the threat posed by money laundering and payments-related financial

Project Regulator represented the Payments Association at the FCA’s Brexit Briefing this month. Representatives from the project team championed the perspective and concerns of Payments Association members at this round

The Payments Association is delighted to announce the new Benefactor behind the Payments Association’s Project Payments in Commerce, The Chargeback Company. The project, formerly called Project Retail, under its new

By Kevin McAdam, VP Card Services & Global Strategy at Global Processing Services and Project lead for the International Trade Project at the Payments Association. In the past year, GPS has

The next Project Futures workshop will be held on Thursday 4th April and will be focused on using data to drive payments and Data proliferation. If you would like to

Mastercard today announced that it is dropping its name from its iconic brand mark in select contexts. The interlocking red and yellow circles, referred to as the Mastercard Symbol, will

NEW YORK, LONDON, DUBAI, MEXICO CITY, 15 January 2019 – Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, today announced that

Nitecrest are pleased to launch our new-to-market degradable ECO PVC adding to our long established ECO Collection including paper board substrates offering clients environmentally friendlier options for gift, loyalty and

Payment innovation will take center stage in Cyprus this coming April with the central theme: Innovation in a Disruptive Digital Economy.   QUBE EVENTS is host to the International 6th

PrePay Solutions (PPS), Europe’s leading digital banking and payments provider, has enabled functionality for current account service providers, Coconut, to launch a limited company accounting and invoicing product. The powerful

WEX Corporate Payments, London – December 2018. WEX announces two new senior appointments within the Netherlands.   Since heading up the WEX office in Europe, Vice President Anant Patel has

BRD enhances their mobile application within Europe via Coinify’s in-wallet trading solution. Read more here

Wirecard, along with our Partners: B4B Payments, Curve, Glint, Marq Millions, MuchBetter and PCT have been shortlisted for this year’s Card and Payments Awards. Now heading into its fourteenth year,

Barclays is turbo-boosting the New York arm of its Rise accelerator and introducing an investment pool of £10 million for each cohort to go through the programme. Read more here

Read the case study on how Fire is helping GRID get an innovative solution that complemented their product offering and supported their commitment to excellence: a simple to use, fast and

Read the fire case study on how Buymie were seeking a solution to help with distributing, managing and controlling the funds that their contracted shoppers use to purchase groceries here.

Kompli-Global has positioned itself in the top of the RegTech Top 100.

Fiserv has struck a $22 billion, all-stock deal to buy First Data, creating a payments and fintech behemoth. Read more here

Lloyds Bank is looking at a £750 million annual saving in tech spend as it plots a move to a new core banking platform from tech startup Thought Machine. Read

Contis, the award-winning banking, payments and processing services provider is on a turbocharged growth mission for 2019, launching a new brand design, new website and initiating a hiring push for

UK-based fintech Arro Money has launched a crowdfunding campaign with plans to tackle the issue of financial exclusion in the UK and beyond.  There are currently 1.5 million people in

UKGCVA Conference 2019 – The Future is Now   UKGCVA Conference 2019 is just six weeks away – the flagship Gift Card Industry event of the year takes place over

Over 5.3 million switches since launch of Current Account Switch Service Switching levels between 1 October 2018 and 31 December 2018 up 22 per cent compared to Q3 2018 Participant

Konsentus today announced that they have been selected by Mastercard to deliver Third Party Provider (TPP) identity and regulatory checking solutions, as part of Mastercard’s new suite of Open Banking

Mobile ordering and hospitality guest engagement technology specialists wi-Q Technologies are pleased to announce that Judopay is the latest payment provider to join its growing global Partner Programme. Read the

Millionaire American rapper Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Calvin Broadus, has become a minority shareholder in the Klarna, which offers buy-now-pay-later services at 100,000 retailers in Europe and across the U.S. Read the

Fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Visa to launch a consumer payment product for Africa called GetBarter. Read the entire story here

Anna Tsyupko, CEO, Paybase spoke to Katia Lang, CEO TFT about her drive for enabling platform and crypto businesses to succeed through Paybase’s API-driven solution. Read the entire interview

Paybase CEO Anna will be speaking about how Paybase is raising the bar of what payments can and should do at the MPE in February in Berlin.

According to Peter Hazou, Director of Development for Microsoft’s World Wide Financial Services Industry Group, the industry is at a pivotal moment and the success of financial services organizations “depends on how

Keith Briscoe discusses the chargeback problem, outlines some truly astounding chargeback stories (hackers aren’t the only fraudsters), and explains Ethoca’s role in this space, in episode 85 of the Payments on

TJ Horan from FICO gives his predictions for 2019.

New fraud rules under PSD2 demand extra fraud checks, but customers not ready to hand over phone numbers. Read more

Payment Service Providers are pushing to implement their PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solutions ready for the September deadline. But of course it’s not just them that will be affected

“It’s been a busy start to 2019 as we have undergone a big transformation through rebranding and also moving office location. Previously we were known as Fortytwo Data. Now we

Starling Bank has taken the wraps off a new Euro Account offering as it begins preperations for life after Brexit. Read more

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David Parker from Polymath Consultancy joins Robert and Suresh for the 2nd episode of Fintech Unplugged, Series 5. Find out what David’s views are on cryptocurrencies and if we should

Kriya Patel from Transact Payments joins Robert and Suresh in this next episode of Fintech Unplugged. Find out what Kriya believes Brexit will mean to payments, what are his views

Is this the end of vouchers for your business? Does your company give gift vouchers as part of its employee recognition or incentive schemes? If so, you need to be

Newport, Wales 01/02/2019– W2, a provider of SaaS, B2B software solutions and services is very pleased to announce the appointment of Sara West to the Executive Board of Directors. Sara

Vitesse Company Overview: Vitesse is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuance of e-money and is registered as a Money Transmitter with

Paybase dived straight into 2019 by hosting their 2nd Collaborative Workshop.  Their supportive community for platform businesses is definitely growing, stay tuned for information on their third workshop in March!

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