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COVID19: E-commerce Nightmares & Surprises Series

At Cybertonica we Trust in Transaction. We make systems to make trust and frictionless commerce safe and secure for businesses and consumers. We know that outdated rules and operations occasionally introduce almost Kafka-like situations and thought it would help us to see the end customer and merchant point of view.

So we decided to collect stories from the people in our network and customers as well as their clients telling us how their e-commerce is going in this period – both the nightmares and the nice surprises.

We asked them to tell us about their online shopping experiences during the lockdown to paint a vivid picture for the merchants. From surprise champagne deliveries to account takeovers, we have some good stories lined up for you!

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PPS Powers Vybe, The fintech for Generation Z

Today, PPS is announcing its partnership with France-based payment expert and card provider for teenagers, Vybe.

Due to the systems in place across France when it comes to banking and owning your own account, around five million teenagers (between 13 to 18 years old) have been left with no access to financial services.

This is a problem that Vybe aims to solve and is working with PPS to make it happen, thanks to the company’s well-tested technology infrastructure and PPS-powered Mastercard virtual cards.

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How the current landscape can help Financial Institutions to grow

It is expected that the volume of #InternationalPayments will grow in the upcoming years. However, those #FinancialInstitutions that do not adapt to the changes in the current landscape may miss this opportunity against the big players. How to be prepared? Our Karen Penney, VP of Payment Products, shares her views.

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Entersekt and ndgit partner on secure open banking

Entersekt, a leader in device identity and omnichannel authentication, has announced a strategic partnership with ndgit, a Munich-headquartered open banking platform provider. The agreement makes Entersekt’s state-of-the-art strong customer authentication and smart messaging solutions available on the ndgit Marketplace, where financial services providers can access a carefully curated set of fintech products in a secure hosting environment.

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Lets not let COVID steal Christmas 2020!!

For Good Causes clients are taking the fight back to COVID-19, with an alternative approach to celebrating Christmas 2020.

Steve Wilks describes a campaign that means companies can feel good about Christmas, and feel good about helping others feel better about it too.

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Two Future Digital Awards for Banking Circle

Following a record number of applications, Banking Circle has been awarded two prestigious awards in the 2020 Juniper Research Future Digital Awards. The innovative financial infrastructure provider was awarded the Lending Platform Platinum Award for Banking Circle Lending, and a Gold Award for Banking Platform Innovation.

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The Payments Association EU releases its seminal whitepaper on the European Payments Landscape

The Payments Association EU releases its seminal whitepaper on the European Payments Landscape, it offers a general overview of the current European Payment dynamics and evolutions.
Moreover, the whitepaper provides comparison elements between the different parts of the European Union while putting the European situation in perspective with other continents.
Certainly, the Payments Association EU whitepaper is an essential reading for anyone eager to have a general glimpse over the payment landscape in Europe as well as for payment professional requiring in depth information’s over specific areas.

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Global Processing Services Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Trio of Appointments

Leading payments issuer processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), announces its appointment of three C-level executives: Richard Hodgson as Chief Financial Officer, Shaun Puckrin as Chief Product Officer, and Jerome Gudgeon as Chief Technology Officer.

The new hires bolster the executive leadership team of GPS, the payments processing partner for some of the most well-known and successful fintechs on the market, including Revolut, Starling Bank and Curve, as the business drives its global expansion plans forward beyond Europe and APAC. It’s also a great sign of confidence for the fintech sector.

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Open banking API calls – what lies ahead?

Key findings:
– By December 2020, the total number of monthly API calls across the EEA is expected to reach between 2.8bn (5% adoption rate) and 3bn (20% adoption rate); with Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy all experiencing over 300m calls per month.
– By December 2021, Germany, France and Italy will join the UK in experiencing monthly volumes in excess of 500m (even with the lowest adoption rate of 5%).
– By December 2022, with our lowest projections of a 5% adoption rate, Germany and the UK should be experiencing monthly transaction volumes in excess of 1bn. If the adoption rate is as high as 20%, Spain, France, Italy and Poland will also experience monthly volumes in excess of 1bn.

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The Future of Retail in the E-commerce Era

Few people have questioned whether e-commerce was the way of the future when it came to retail and shopping, but even fewer have asked what this brave new world will look like.

After all, as everyone moves online, other factors will play critical and distinguishing roles in determining who the winners and losers are from the e-commerce online future.

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Netcetera and Mastercard launch 3DS testing platform for retailers

Netcetera is Mastercard’s exclusive 3-D Secure testing partner to help retailers and other businesses ensure they are ready to comply with PSD2. Mastercard and Netcetera, the market leader for 3DS and EMVCo associate, are supporting merchants to improve their transactions and conversion rates. This is the first time that merchants are able to run tests in their live online shops.

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Tomorrow’s Transactions Webinar

Have you registered for our Tomorrow’s Transactions events?
Join Dave Birch and colleagues from Consult Hyperion for our weekly webinars and fireside chats, to discuss transaction technologies and the issues our industry is facing. Every Thursday at 4 PM BST/11 AM EDT.

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Kompli-Global helps companies expose bad actors within their customer base

Kompli-Global, the leading RegTech AML specialist, has announced today that it that it is ensuring corporate entities do not fall victim to potential fraud and money laundering, as it unveils Kompli-Reveal™, a screening solution harnessing augmented intelligence (AI) and human expertise, to provide the most up-to-date information on their client bases.

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Radius Bank completes the full-circle in cross-border payments

Radius Bank, the best online US bank of 2020*, and Currencycloud, the leader in providing B2B embedded cross-border solutions, have partnered to offer Radius clients the ability to send money to more than 180 countries.

Following increased customer demand for international wire transfers for both their own clients and their Banking-as-a-Service partners, Radius sought to find a solution that could be quickly integrated. Using Currencycloud’s APIs means Radius Bank can send outgoing payments to international destinations they were unable to reach before on behalf of their clients.

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Modulr becomes first non-bank or building society to launch Confirmation of Payee

Modulr is the first non-bank or building society to join the Confirmation of Payee service.
Confirmation of Payee allows users to check if the payment details they’ve entered for a person or business match the details held by the recipient’s bank.
This provides reassurance that payments are being sent to the right recipient and protects Modulr customers from certain types of payment fraud.

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EQ introduces EQPay

EQ (“Equiniti Group plc”), an international technology-led services and payments specialist, is delighted to announce that its business payment platform has a new name, EQPay.

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