Never truer words when applied to real-time or faster payments! And to prove it, let’s examine the journey of the UK Faster Payments System(FPS), probably the oldest implementation of real-time payments

How do you ensure customers receive good outcomes when selling complex financial products online? The key is in understanding their customer journey. In partnership with specialist tech provider, Glassbox, we

22nd May 2019: Huntswood is pleased to announce a new partnership with Gadhia Consultants. Led by former CEO of Virgin Money, Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia DBE, the collaboration will draw on

Strategic partnership enables Estonia’s oldest commercial bank to comply with EU regulations and capitalise on open banking 25th June 2019 – Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io, today announces it

The Access Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of software to the UK mid-market, has today announced the completion of the acquisition of Eazy Collect, one of the UK’s

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 17 June 2019 – Chip Mong Bank (CMCB) – a newly established bank and subsidiary of local conglomerate Chip Mong Group – chose Compass Plus’ TranzWare

Starling customers can now apply directly from within the challenger bank’s app for home insurance from Direct Line. More on this story

NatWest customers can now open a current account within minutes on their phones simply by taking a selfie. More on this story

Will banks ever learn? Yesterday, Facebook announced Libra, a stablecoin to be used for payment in WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Libra is a stablecoin pegged to a basket of fiat

Bó, the digital bank developed by RBS-owned NatWest, has recruited the founder of Loot, an online banking service aimed at millennials that went into administration last month. More on this

Attitudes toward training and culture are fundamental to the way a company and its employees conduct themselves. The Huntswood Payments team was recently commissioned by the The Payments Association to

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First of its kind cross-border B2B payments network streamlines payments and delivers rich set of data for financial institutions and their corporate clients Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced the commercial

Fraud knows no boundaries. In the B2B space, the latest cases are spread across North America, Australia and the U.K. In the U.S., new reports from The New Yorker this week dove

Bottomline Technologies, a leading provider of financial technology that helps make business payments simple, smart and secure, revealed today that 87% of financial decision makers in businesses across Great Britain

Bottomline Technologies’s 2019 Business Payments Barometer surveyed some 400 financial decision makers in the UK, see full write up here, and reported on the Future of Payments in the UK. In the

A new study has revealed that 87% of financial decision-makers in businesses across Great Britain are unable to recover more than half of their losses caused by fraud, with the

iSmash customers can now use Klarna’s Pay in 3 instalments service to split repair costs over 60 days London: 27 June 2019 — Tech repair specialists iSmash and leading European

Tieto is a company headquartered in Finland and is one of the leading software and services companies in the Nordics. Together the combined company will create a driving force for

Partnership with Banking Circle produces travel industry’s most comprehensive payments solution www.bankingcircle.com London, June 2019 – Ixaris, the award-winning payments optimisation company has been shortlisted for the Best PayTech Partnership

  What do fintechs need to do to have the best chance of PRA approval? Only four banking licence applications approved in the past year Challenger banks’ applications for banking

Houssem Assadi, CEO at dejamobile, has been invited on the set a BFM Business program. In this video, Houssem Assadi is bringing his insights on the latest trends in the

Nottingham, UK – 18 June 2019 – Compass Plus Processing Centre Great Britain has continued to show its commitment to providing secure processing services for its customers, protecting cardholder data

Investors partner with fintech at forefront of open banking wave to futureproof and offer new digital services SAN FRANCISCO, US – 18 June, 2019 – Token (https://token.io/), the turnkey open

Lloyds Banking Group has stepped up its Open Banking game, enabling customers to see within it app their savings and credit card accounts from other providers. More on this story

Bankingblocks uses Five Degrees digital core banking technology to target challenger banks and payment companies segment. Bankingblocks uses Five Degrees digital core banking technology to target challenger banks and payment

Successful banking disruptor Bankingblocks and smart solutions provider Pannovate Limited have partnered to bring to market a complete banking solution for neo and challenger banks. Bankingblocks has combined the traditional European PI, agency banking

We’re delighted to announce that Bankingblocks CEO Daria Rippingale has been awarded Emerging FinTech/Payment Leader of the Year by the European Women Payments Network (EWPN). On June 4th 2019, EWPN

A consortium of major companies have launched b.yond, a financial innovation platform that will let banks and consumer-facing businesses rapidly deploy a range of innovative fintech payment services. Today’s digital-first

Mashreq Bank, one of the leading financial institutions in the UAE, boasts a proud tradition of introducing cutting-edge banking products for its customers. It was the first bank to introduce

We are looking for expert to share their experiences and insights on these markets, and welcome Acquirers within Payments Association to contribute. Be in touch with: Amelie.arras@aevi.com

A growing number of businesses are recognizing that they must embrace innovation if they want to retain and attract customers in the digital age, but a broad range of consumer

Competitive pressures and the drive to increase sales are motivating small merchants in the food and accommodations markets to adopt the next generation of acquiring services, according to the new

Cooperation agreement extends reach of AEVI’s open and flexible app marketplace to Ingenico’s large global base of acquirers and providers. Amsterdam Money20/20 Europe, 3/06/19 – AEVI, provider of next-generation acquiring services and

Amazon has teamed up with Synchrony Financial to launch a secured credit card targeted at Americans with no credit history or bad credit. The Amazon Credit Builder has many of

China’s largest payments provider UnionPay is making major strides into Europe by launching a partnership with UK fintech start up Tribe Payments. The state-run giant’s expansion is a “a very

UK-based digital banking platform Starling Bank announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with Tribe Payments, which consists a team of industry experts who are dedicated to delivering the future of

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 17 June 2019 – Chip Mong Bank (CMCB) – a newly established bank and subsidiary of local conglomerate Chip Mong Group – chose Compass Plus’ TranzWare

CHICAGO, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Galileo, the technology company that powers disruptive innovation for the most brilliant fintechs, next-gen financial institutions and investment firms in North America, today announced another quantum leap forward

Financial utility shortlisted for three PayTech Awards www.bankingcircle.com London, June 2018 – Banking Circle, the ground-breaking financial utility, has been announced as a finalist in three PayTech Awards categories: Best

Ricky Lee, Founder and CEO of sync & Noel Smith, Business Development Director for Transact Payments Ltd. speak at Money 20/20 Europe about the launch of sync, how it differs

Visa has officially launched B2B Connect, its distributed ledger-based, non-card platform for high-value corporate, cross-border payments. Visa first revealed back in 2016 that it had teamed up with blockchain outfit

DUESDAY, a Cornwall and London, UK-based FinTech partners with HP and Bluestar Mexico to produce a first of its kind POS payment solution. In a world-first, payment provider Duesday partners

Customers earn 1% Curve Cash to spend instantly anywhere they want Earn cash from an expanded list of more than 50 top brands, including Apple, Amazon, Uber, TFL, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose,

The slow rise of the ‘challenger’; trust in high street banks is twice that of challenger banks London, UK, 30th May, 2019 – A quarter of the UK (25%) believe