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Chargeback Reversal Rate of Just 10% Could Deal Fatal Blow to Travel Merchants Post-Covid, New Study Finds

A fascinating new report, Fraud and Chargebacks in Travel, has been launched by merchant dispute specialist Chargebacks911, in conjunction with industry thought leader and travel research firm, Airline Information. It offers merchants a thought-provoking look at the substantial scale of the challenge that chargebacks present to the industry and proposes solutions for mitigating chargeback threats and payment fraud events.

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Dear Luc: With the contactless limit increasing to £100, why are people so divided?

Contactless card payments have boomed since the onset of Covid-19 and 15 October marked yet another milestone with shoppers able to spend £100 per transaction with a tap of their card.

In this Dear Luc article, Luc Gueriane discusses why are people so divided about the £100 contactless limit?

Head over to Fintech Futures to read the full article: https://www.fintechfutures.com/2021/10/dear-luc-why-are-people-so-divided-about-the-100-contactless-limit/

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TIPPAY™ BY RADAR PAYMENTS ENABLES WORKERS TO RECEIVE GRATUITY AND TIPS STRAIGHT INTO THEIR ACCOUNT

Radar Payments launches a standalone service for tipping and gratuity that can be deployed by financial institutions to help reward hospitality staff and other workers for their services.
Banks can use Tippay™ as a standalone app available in their business client outlets and to partners for more tipping convenience. The service enables banks to reach new potential customers while generating additional revenues by taking a minimal fee on every tip registered.

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Gain The Lead: How Fintech Leaders Can Cultivate Ownership Culture in a Rapid Growth Environment

As a fintech leader, what does ownership mean to you?

It’s a prominent topic these days, especially as payment providers (and the broader fintech industry) shift to remote settings and home offices. Leaders and employees must adapt during times of change. Encouraging and proliferating ownership was already difficult before this seismic shift. Now it’s an even taller task.

Are your employees taking ownership over their responsibilities and designated projects?

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Global Processing Services raises over US$300 million to accelerate technology development and global growth

London-headquartered Global Processing Services (GPS), the Global API-first payment technology platform, powering the world’s leading fintechs, including Revolut, Curve, Starling Bank, Zilch, WeLab Bank and Paidy, today announces it has raised over US$300 million from Advent International (“Advent”) and Viking Global Investors (“Viking”).

The new investors and subsequent funding will provide deep payments and fintech experience to accelerate technology investments in product innovation and continued expansion in 48 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The investment follows a strategic investment from Visa in October 2020.

GPS is a company at the heart of fintech’s global expansion, powering leading fintechs, digital challenger banks and embedded finance providers through its API-first payment technology.

To date GPS has:

Issued 190 million physical and virtual cards
Processed more than 1.3 billion transactions on its cloud-based platform
Expanded into APAC and MENA
Integrated with 95 issuer partners and operates programmes for a client base across the globe
Powered today’s leading fintechs, including Revolut, Curve, Starling Bank, Zilch, WeLab Bank and Paidy
Secured strategic investment from Visa, a long-term partner of GPS
Established a new regional centre of excellence in United Arab Emirates (UAE) having been selected as one of its preferred issuer processors in Asia-Pacific and the MENA region

Please see below for full press release for further information.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Becky

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PHYSICAL BIOMETRICS VS BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS

– Introduction
– What is physical biometrics?
– What is behavioral biometrics?
– What is the difference between using physical and behavioral biometrics when authenticating users?
– Behavioral biometrics aid PSD2 compliance
– Webinar: Behavioral Vs Physical Biometrics: the ultimate showdown in digital banking

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Skills gaps holding financial institutions back

The latest study from Banking Circle has revealed the new challenges faced by CIOs and CTOs working in Banks and FinTechs. The insight from the Payments bank for the new economy found that more than half have skills gaps in their organisations that could hold them back from capitalising on the latest technology, seriously undermining their post-COVID recovery.

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Future-proof Security

Covid-19 changed many things, including the security landscape. Remote work and the onslaught of digital services that accompanied it brought a digital transformation the world was not expecting. While it has affected the way people work in many positive ways, it has also led them to be more vulnerable to cyber attacks. To minimise this risky exposure and establish a new benchmark for protection, it’s time companies dig deep into the conversation of future-proof security.

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Gain The Lead: FinTech and payment organizations: have you ever considered the strength profiles of your highly skilled teams?

Diversity has become the new normal in fast evolving industries like payment & fintech. Next to the obvious types of diversity, what if you had a metric to select the optimal people for your team, and the role you want them to play in the team no matter what their cultural or hard skill related background is?

When developing or growing a dynamic team in a fast-growing company, considering the optimal interpersonal strength profiles and finding the optimal balance, can be a catalyst to improve the team’s performance. Within the Fintech industry, the ever changing environment demands team members to grow and develop their interpersonal skills in order to achieve targets in a seamless and effective manner.

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Wintermute and BCB Group Announce Partnership as Wintermute Joins BCB Group’s BLINC Network

Wintermute, one of the largest players in the global digital asset markets, has today announced a partnership with BCB Group, Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy. Wintermute has also integrated with BLINC, BCB’s global payments network, and one of the first real-time payment networks of its kind to allow free, real-time transactions across fiat and digital currencies, enabling participants to settle instantly in any of the currencies supported, with no limits.

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GPS expands into MENA

The award-winning global payments processor sets up regional hub to promote its innovative offering throughout MENA, led by ex-Majid Al Futtaim payments expert, Arnav Rath, as Head of Region

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Wintermute and BCB Group Announce Partnership as Wintermute Joins BCB Group’s BLINC Network

Wintermute, one of the largest players in the global digital asset markets, has today announced a partnership with BCB Group, Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy. Wintermute has also integrated with BLINC, BCB’s global payments network, and one of the first real-time payment networks of its kind to allow free, real-time transactions across fiat and digital currencies, enabling participants to settle instantly in any of the currencies supported, with no limits.

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allpay Renews Place on Consortium Procurement (NHC) Framework

allpay Ltd, a leading UK payment specialist, has renewed its place on the Consortium Procurement (CP) framework, which is the commercial arm of the Northern Housing Consortium (NHC).

With over 115 clients utilising the framework, allpay have been on this framework since 2010, and is delighted to continue this relationship.

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Dear Luc: I want to add credit capabilities like buy now, pay later (BNPL) to my service, what do I need to consider?

It’s time for another monthly #DearLuc, payments agony uncle, with Moorwand CCO Luc Gueriane and FinTech Futures! This week a fintech founder has asked about Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) and how they can get a piece of the action. Luc describes some of the key considerations to keep in mind when a card programme provider is looking to add BNPL to their service.

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Monneo enlists Coinbase to allow invoices to be paid in crypto 

Monneo, regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a virtual IBAN and corporate account provider, has enlisted cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, in a move that will enable payment of invoices in a range of cryptocurrencies. The new service will be available for B2B invoice settlement and is supported by two of Monneo’s partner banks.

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New Survey Report on Variable Recurring Payments and Sweeping

Token’s survey report on Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) and Sweeping features key data and insights from over 55 senior open banking and payments professionals. Read this report to understand what the most compelling use cases for VRPs are, why VRPs and Sweeping will make finance smarter, what portion of merchants plan to support VRPs, and more.

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PPS Whitepaper – Embedded Finance

In this new Whitepaper, PPS chart the rise of BAAS, Embedded Finance & Embedded Fintech, exploring how banks, fintechs, non-financial brands and consumers stand to benefit from the latest trend to sweep the financial services sector.

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THE ONLY CONSTANT IN FRAUD IS CHANGE

– What is Behavioral Biometric Analysis?
– What is a BionicID™?
– What makes Revelock’s BionicID™ solution unique in fraud prevention?
– How can BionicIDs™ be used to stop Impersonation and Manipulation attacks?
– What is BionicID™ analysis best suited for?
– Does BionicID™ data collection or analysis impact the User Experience (UX)?

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