Even with the advent of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), senior policy-makers have said it will be some time before financial institutions can enjoy frictionless cross-border transactions.
Modulr receives strategic investment from the venture arm of FIS
• FIS Ventures invests in leading UK FinTech Modulr, as it drives real-time payments solutions and capabilities at a global scale.
• Modulr, the payments platform, is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Central Bank of Ireland, with the EMI also benefiting from direct access to the Bank of England.
• The corporate and business payments market, in which Modulr operates, is considered to be worth $2 trillion, nearly five times as large as consumer payments.
National competent authorities have taken an ambiguous position on their enforcement deadlines for strong customer authentication — which has left the market unsure about how much flexibility there is, sources say.
Featured is one of Blue Train Marketing’s most recent blogs ‘QR Codes: A Secret History’. In this blog the writer, Jeff Banks, goes into detail of the history of QR Codes and how they are rapidly being adopted across the globe!
Checkout.com, the leading cloud-based global payment solutions provider, has announced the launch of its Payouts Product, which enables merchants to make seamless payments directly to eligible recipients’ cards and bank accounts.
The solution will enable merchants to make payouts in real-time to over four billion cards in over 174 countries and seamless payments to local bank accounts in over 40 countries around the world. It also leverages market-leading scheme and interbank FX rate sources, leaving global merchants with minimal exposure to currency fluctuations.
Payouts will enable the remittance, digital wallet, travel, insurtech and the gig economy industries to deliver more efficient, faster payments as a competitive differentiator. Checkout.com is the only payment service provider to have built a completely new infrastructure that spans the entire payouts value chain.
Online Payment Platform, the Netherlands payment service provider, has selected payments expert and licensed bank, Banking Circle, to enhance its marketplace offering.
Okay has been running compliance audits since 2016. What did it look like back then compared to today? Are two channels for SCA really needed? This week we briefly explore the changing security environment of mobile phones related to identity verification.
EML partners with Orenda’s zero-code, machine learning and serverless technology.
Sokin launched Sokin Enterprise, our B2B product that supercharges your unlimited business payments and FX Transfers for a fixed fee.
Ekata and Allyiz (formerly STRATGranat) interviewed top global merchants on their experiences now PSD2 is live. Download our latest eBook to understand what these merchants are seeing in the market – the ultimate temperature check on all the effort undertaken by the various payments players in the ecosystem.
The London based E-Money solution for global citizens Privat3 Money (P3), is pleased to announce the launch of its new Mobile App available for both Apple IOS and Android devices. This milestone is P3’s latest step to provide its global citizen clients a completely seamless user experience and ultimately greater control over their finances.
PPS, payments and banking-as-a-service provider, has officially announced that it is powering the first Gen Z fintech for the German market. pockid is the first German Neobank specifically designed for Generation Z (15-24-year olds), providing a much-needed solution to the payment spending issue facing German youths. PPS enables pocked to achieve this through its scalable solution, utilising years of experience powering banks and fintech across the globe.
EML has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Sentenial.
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How to provide 30 million SMBs access to sophisticated financial products, and drive innovation? That’s the question SteadiPay asked, as it finds ways to bring modern Fintech offerings to this underserved market.
Allstar Business Solutions has partnered with the electric vehicle (EV) fast charging point provider Plug-N-Go.
Allstar will be integrating Plug-N-Go’s 18 EV charging sites into its multi-branded Allstar One Electric network, which now consists of over 1,700 sites across the UK.
For customers, the partnership will:
• Provide greater access to charging points, lowering range anxiety – a barrier for businesses adopting EV
• Ensure that they have full control over their drivers’ refuelling and spending habits, capturing where and how company money is being spent
For Allstar, the partnership is the latest in a string of strategic deals that are enabling it to work towards its goal of creating an EV charging network equivalent to its traditional fuelling points.
FLEETCOR® UK has made a minority investment in Mina, a cloud-based digital software platform that simplifies charging and payments management for commercial fleets with electric vehicles (EVs).
The Fintech for Fintech’s Kani Payments, specialising in payment reconciliation and reporting has announced hitting £5 billion reconciliation milestone and the appointment of three senior hires.
Saurus.com partners with EML to power its game-changing mobile payments app.
Trust Payments is pleased to announce that the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has granted its subsidiary, TrustUK Payments Ltd, an Authorised Payment Institution (API) License. The license permits the company to engage in payment services directly in the UK without the need to rely on its existing EU licensing structures, or transitional arrangements in the wake of Brexit.
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Simon Fairbairn, Head of Professional Services EMEA, Terminals, Solutions & Services at Worldline, looks at why Android payment devices are on the rise and what this innovation will mean for merchants and estate owners.
Banking Circle, the financial infrastructure provider, today announces that it is now completely cloud-based, with all aspects of its infrastructure hosted within Microsoft Azure. This includes its purpose built, cloud-first, cross border payments platform, which delivers greater speed, enhanced functionality, and a more intuitive user experience to its clients.
Over the course of the pandemic, PPS’ HR Director, Corinne Williams, has worked tirelessly to deploy a pioneering strategy to ensure the safety of the company’s 250 strong workforce over the last year, with various processes in place to roll out homeworking through tailored kits and a top-class well-being programme. All of this to ultimately continue to maintain its high level of operations for some of today’s leading brands that are changing the face of financial services as we know it.
Brian Hanrahan explores the current climate, with COVID-19 leading to significant economic downturn, shedding light on how holdbacks from acquirers are becoming more prevalent.
Learn how Nuapay’s Account-2-Account payments, funds are delivered in real-time as no acquiring bank is required to facilitate payments. This means no more holdbacks, giving businesses in at-risk sectors the breathing room they need to survive in challenging economic conditions.
W2, award winning global provider of regulatory compliance solutions today announced their partnership with market leading payments provider Contis to supply end-to-end KYC/AML processes for customer onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
Nuapay, powered by Sentenial, announces it is extending its open banking payment capabilities to German and Italian banks. This expansion will enable German and Italian partners to offer open banking payment solutions, powering seamless account-2-account payments for their customers.
This rollout connects 308 banks in Italy and 435 banks in Germany to Nuapay’s Open Banking platform, connecting 134 million European accounts and reaching 98% and 70% of payers in each country.
Rush has partnered with EML Payments to deliver its prepaid Mastercard card.
Ordo is on a mission to make paying and getting paid easy, helping everyone control their finances, from large enterprises to small businesses and consumers. Using Open Banking technology, Ordo has digitised the process from buying goods or a service, invoicing, payment, reconciliation and confirmation to make it seamless for business and easy for payers.
Ordo has partnered with CGI, independent IT and business consulting services firm delivering an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions.
Together they helped PFP energy, a not-for-profit energy company, or as they like to call it ‘Profit for Purpose’….a partnership with that warm fuzzy feeling.
Payment initiation is a new type of payment method made possible with open banking. Essentially, it works by letting customers connect to their banks and authorise a payment directly from their accounts. Here’s what that looks like, and what advantages it brings compared to other payment options.
Moneyou saw PSD2 as a key enabler of innovative banking services and planned to exploit all aspects of the new regulations to provide both market-leading functionality and value to their growing user base. Moneyou needed to find a way to build a compliant solution with minimum effort and impact on their systems and identified Konsentus as being the ideal partner to achieve this.
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Fintech and Payments Association member Paynetics discuss digitising loyalty and their latest partnership with promotional campaign leader Benamic to power a new, mobile first corporate card programme for the B2B market.
The recipe for success in the e-commerce business is much the same as any other entrepreneurial endeavor except it comes with many opportunities for growth and leverage that physical businesses don’t have.
Online business may be the future of many markets, and for good reason. From scalability of immediately needed resources to cost-effective innovation and optimization, we have identified five key elements of success for e-commerce business in the modern age:
E-commerce businesses can’t put enough of a premium on online cybersecurity and protection against threats. Not only can malicious actors steal data and commit fraud, but they can also completely undermine a customer’s confidence in your business.
To avoid costly fraud and cyber threats, we’ve found five primary areas of focus that e-commerce businesses need to keep in mind as they move forward in the online market:
As part of a European Union mandate called the Revised Directive on Payment Services, or (PSD2), merchants operating in the EU economic zone must use payment service providers within the European Economic Area that offer what is known as strong customer authentication.
This is also sometimes referred to as the SCA requirement or the PSD2 compliance. In essence, this directive ensures that transactions occurring within the EU’s economic territories make use of multi-factor authentication in order to verify a buyer’s identity.
The promises of the European Union single market, while not full borne out in the reality of the business world, where the same are actually still far from the dream promised when it comes to the virtual single market. What does this mean?
In other words, the European Union might act as a single market when it comes to monetary issues and beyond, but the EU single digital market is hampered and its growth restricted by a myriad of factors including various compliance regimes and the logistical mastery needed to make it all work.
Intuit QuickBooks, the small business platform, today announces it has entered into an agreement with Payments-as-a-Service FinTech, Modulr. Modulr will power the new QuickBooks Business Account, a new digital payment account[1] designed specifically for small businesses.
By providing payments infrastructure and digital payments expertise, the collaboration will allow QuickBooks to combine an industry leading business account with its suite of bookkeeping, accounting and tax tools, building on its vision to be ‘The One Source of Truth for a Small Business’.
Why Netflix, JustEat and Uber made your payments experience a whole lot harder
Aka Why Poor Payment Processes Are Hampering Customer Experience Transformation
As more and more organizations have gone digital, there has been a parallel proliferation of cyberattacks that attempt to damage, disrupt or gain unauthorized access to the computer systems of banks and other financial institutions.
So while banks and payment providers are looking for ways to streamline the onboarding process, they must ensure that they build in the necessary safeguards to protect their ecosystems, reputation and accounts owners.
New data from Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, reveals that new account fraud based on ID verification declined 23.2% worldwide YOY in 2020, compared to 2019 results. At the same time, selfie-based fraud rates were five times higher than ID-based fraud.
Moorwand, the payments solution provider which aims to transform compliance into an enabler of innovation, has launched ‘Dear Luc’, a new payments agony uncle column with Fintech Futures.
The mobility industry needs a game-changer now more than ever and a great place to start would be to take online payments on your website.
Vacuumlabs has announced a global partnership with Thought Machine following the two firms’ successful cooperation in Asia.
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 | LONDON, UK | BY JAMES THORPE Lloyds Bank customers can now pay their credit card bills via their mobile app, leveraging Mastercard’s open banking technology. Mastercard’s
FEBRUARY 4, 2021 | LONDON NatWest Group to switch all Debit portfolios to Mastercard Mastercard and NatWest Group today announced an expansion of their payments partnership by agreeing to convert
From currency notes to cheques and then banking cards to completely virtual transactions— the payments industry has come a long way in the last 100 years. The progression in the payment industry has also fuelled growth across the industrial spectrum.
SMB market in the US has been neglected for a long and now there is a lot of space to serve it right. Find out how!
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