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The Future is Frictionless: Customers Care About Shopping, Not Payments

Okay wants to make the payment process as smooth as possible, specifically when it comes to customer authentication. While this is just one part of the payment process that can introduce friction, it is often where checkout abandonment occurs. In this post, we’ll try to describe some of the options that we’ve seen in the market regarding frictionless payments, including their strengths and weaknesses.

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Digital Payments: What’s the Next Big Thing?

Not only is the extension of digital banking services and digital payments solutions integral to the growth of mobile and online marketplaces, but also it is central to the monetary revolution taking place right now with cryptocurrencies and the rise of a cashless economy. We have identified three major movements in digital banking that could shape how the next several years play out, from enhanced payments processing to the integration of new consumer blocks into the financial system.

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Which is More Secure: Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android?

Will our smart devices be able to implement the necessary security measures to keep up with an ever-increasing digital marketplace? If so, which ones will reign supreme? In this article, we reflect on an age-old question of iPhone vs Android device, well worth considering by all financial industry players, big or small.

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4 Steps to a Successful ISO 20022 Migration

How do Financial Institutions in EMEA Migrate to ISO 20022, Hit Deadlines & Create New Business Opportunity?
ISO 20022 is predicted to support 80% of volume and 90% of the value of high-value transactions and SWIFT has mandated that ANY financial institution that processes SWIFT messages must be able to receive and process ISO messages by the end of 2022.

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Bottomline Announces Payments and Cash Lifecycle Platform

Bottomline, a leading provider of financial technology that makes complex business payments simple, smart and secure, unveiled expanded corporate treasury capabilities as part of its integrated Payments and Cash Lifecycle Platform. The platform empowers financial managers to optimize cash, liquidity and working capital with a unified solution combining payables, receivables, and treasury management, delivering greater visibility and control throughout the end-to-end cash lifecycle.

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Beam partners with Nuapay to enable Open Banking ecommerce payments for WooCommerce merchants

Beam launches new service, to bring instant and secure payments to WooCommerce merchants via Open Banking. Leveraging Nuapay’s payments platform, Beam is aiming to help UK businesses save £100k over the next year.

The partnership enables Beam to provide Open Banking payments to its clients on WooCommerce – the open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress – bringing online and omnichannel retailers the benefits of faster, more secure and cost-efficient payments.

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Paynetics shares major milestones following international expansion

Leading payments provider Paynetics is delighted to share a selection of major milestones in its international growth journey from 2020. The e-money institution has released a new video celebrating its latest appointments, acquisitions, client wins, partnerships, events, launches and more from the last 12 months.

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Allstar adds 110 new charge points to EV network with Gronn Kontakt partnership

Allstar Business Solutions Limited, the UK’s leading fuel management company, announces its new partnership with Gronn Kontakt, an electric vehicle (EV) charging company owned by Statkraft – Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. The deal means that Allstar adds a further 47 charging sites and 110 charge points to the multi-branded Allstar One Electric network.

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PPRO partners with Banking Circle to add value to PSP propositions

PPRO, the global provider of local payments infrastructure, is working with Banking Circle, the ground-breaking financial infrastructure provider, to enhance the PPRO service offering, supporting PSPs working with cross border e-commerce merchants. The partnership underlines the effectiveness of Banking Circle as a next-generation provider of mission-critical infrastructure for online cross border payments.

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It’s Groundhog Day for Payments! A New US Administration, a New UK Brexit: The Continuing Cycle of Change Keeps Banks and Fintechs on their Toes!

Join us for a cross pond webinar focusing on the enormous changes that are expected to impact payments in the US and UK featuring:

•In London, new K&L Gates Special Payments Counsel, Kai Zhang, and Partner, Philip Morgan.
•In New York, Partner and Global Fintech Co-Chair, Judie Rinearson.
•In Washington DC, Partner and Technology Law Specialist, Linda Odom, and Associate, Daniel Cohen.
•In San Francisco, Partner, Cryptocurrency and Fintech Lawyer, Jeremy McLaughlin.

Topics to be covered include:
•Expected changes to be implemented by the new US Democratic administration
•New leadership in the CFPB, SEC, OCC, and CFTC and what it means for banks and Fintechs
•UK and the implementation of Brexit with respect to payments and banking
•Anticipated changes in providing payment services to the UK and Europe
•The outlook for Fintech investment, Mergers and Acquisitions in the next 12 months on both sides of the pond
•What products and services are the winners and losers from these sweeping changes? Mobile apps? Traditional banking? Digital assets, stable coins and cryptocurrencies?

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Six FinTech providers that could boost your business in 2021

Every business from sole traders to large corporations are always on the lookout for ways to save time and money.

With the big banks’ monopoly on providing financial services now broken by FinTechs and new players in the Open Banking space, the choice of alternatives has never been more exciting – and maybe a little confusing for newcomers.

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6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD): Biggest Changes

The 6th Anti-Money Laundering directive (6AMLD) came into effect on the 3rd December 2020 and must be implemented by regulated businesses by 3rd June 2021. After the 5th AMLD introduced so many fundamental changes to the regulatory landscape, most notably introducing a focus on ultimate beneficial owners and strengthening the need for a Know Your Business offering, will the 6th be so impactful? 

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Contis partners with Pin4 cardless cash solution in UK and Europe

Leading European Banking-as-a Service and payments provider, Contis, is delighted to announce its partnership with Pin4, an international fintech pioneering access to cash. This collaboration will enable account holders to access cash via their mobile phones which they can instantly collect at any enabled ATM, including any of 12,000 Cardtronics ATMs across the UK, without the need for a card or pre-registration.  

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GBG State of Digital Identity Report

With half of consumers more likely to go cashless as a result of COVID-19 businesses can no longer shy aware from the concept of a digital-first business model. And as this focus shifts, the concept of identity intelligence has become a strategic imperative. In the GBG State of Digital Identity Report we dive into the digital accelerations, tomorrow’s threats and outline a blueprint for the next normal.

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Open Banking to improve payment experience – Press Release

New data from Open Banking pioneer Nuapay, powered by Sentenial, has revealed that consumers are frustrated with the user experience when making card payments online. This follows recent findings that highlighted a raft of payment card security failings. The news comes as retailers ready themselves for the busy festive shopping season – an event that is even more important this year as businesses seek to plug pandemic losses.

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QR codes could become a mainstream payment method in 2021

2020 saw significant growth in digital payments with the pandemic as one of the key factors. Covid 19 and shifting consumer behaviours steered the move toward contactless options and Open Banking for a safe, efficient, and contactless alternative to traditional payment methods.

Discover how Account to Account payment providers like Nuapay have worked to enable seamless recurring payments for businesses to deliver a faster and more frictionless experience for their customers.

Explore key trends including subscription models powered by recurring payments and QR codes which are fast becoming a mainstream payment method.

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Banking As a Service: Disruptive But Great

Disruption is a buzzword that is often bandied about in the media for one reason or another but rarely do we take time to consider what it actually means in the marketplace.

To watch that in action, we need only look as far as banking and how banking as a service, or BaaS, is changing the landscape of the once-staid financial industry forever.

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B2B Payments in 2021: What’s Next?

With so much change coming to commerce and B2B payments, it is often hard to spot the trends of the future when you’re dealing with so much change here and now. That’s probably easier said than done, especially considering the dual track of digital banking and the traditional banking system that has underpinned much of global commerce over the past several decades.

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Susan Brown, founder Zortrex Nominated for The AccelerateHER Awards 2021 for female business founders,

It is a great honour that Susan Brown the founder of Zortrex is nominated in the category Fintech, Cybersecurity, Susan Brown: To stand next to all the other professional semi finalists, is just amazing. You have all supported me 1 way or another by either liking my articles, or posting news about the major breach news, I just cannot thank you all enough. AccelerateHer has always had the initiative that Scotland Can Do approach.

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