In an era where customer focus, innovation, and the challenge of profitable growth take center stage, the payments industry faces a pivotal transformation, signalling the end of ‘easy growth’ for traditional giants
Since 2019, the UK’s banking sector has been refunding customers who become victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams, causing heated debate among industry professionals who believe the responsibility should lie elsewhere.
This year, rules laid out by the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in 2023 will come into force. The rules stipulate that both the sending and receiving firms should hold equal liability when reimbursing fraud victims in most cases. The rules have received widespread criticism from insiders and industry bodies alike. UK Finance has hit out at the PSR’s rules, which avoid the mention of Big Tech in the conversation.
2024 will herald much innovation in the payments world, with digital currencies and digital wallets firmly entering the mainstream and grabbing the lion’s share of headlines. However, UNITE Global – a new entrant currently flying somewhat under the radar – could enjoy one of the most impactful debuts for many years to shape the future of a critical payments marketplace.
Monica Eaton explores how augmented reality is used in the marketplace and what impact it might have on the payments industry.
Daniel Holden explains the meaning and significance of unified commerce and why it is vital to the customer experience.
ConnexPay’s Anant Patel, president of international markets, discusses the future of payments, highlighting the potential of virtual cards to provide multiple efficiencies and cost savings, while increasing security, reducing fraud
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) has the power to grow the customer base while meeting the ESG goals of a company and its community. Paula Alessandro from Shoal explains the opportunities. The Payments
From chips embedded into consumers hands to make contactless payments to biometric wearable devices, and digital currencies versus a cashless society, The Payments Association speaks to industry experts to find out the key themes likely to dominate the industry over the next decade.
From a once ‘poor man’s card’ to paving the way for a new way to earn, Richard Ney examines how prepaid products are being used to underpin some of the slickest payment solutions and user experiences.
Be recognised as an industry leader at the most important payments awards – The PAY360 Awards. Nominations are now open for 2023 awards. You have until 17 February to submit your entry.
As more organisations move to a cloud-based payments platform, the decision on whether to opt for a private or public cloud will depend on what is most cost effective for a firm.
As the Head of Fintech at Mastercard for the UK and Ireland, David Jones knows what makes a successful fintech company. He talks to The Payments Association about what success looks like in a crowded market and how the payment scheme decides who to partner with.
The Payments Association’s recently issued report, Navigating the New Opportunities for Corporate Cards, takes a close look at the world of corporate card payments, finding that there is much to do to make them as seamless as personal payments or even those for small businesses, but that there are innovative FinTechs who are solving the specific problems of making payments in a business setting.
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.
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
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.
In a recent article on The Fintech Times, Ian Kerr, a Director of Business Development for Episode Six, discussed why crypto and DeFi isn’t just a fad, but something that will remain for a long time. If banks do not respond to it, they will face the consequences in the future.
Now, banks can offer their customers a secure, passwordless authentication experience that removes the reliance on passwords, one-time-PINs and additional mobile apps.
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.
Samba Bank, a fully owned subsidiary of the largest bank in the Middle East (Saudi National Bank), has signed an agreement with BPC Banking Technologies to modernise its digital banking and payment processing technology infrastructure and provide a frictionless digital banking and payment experience for its customers.
Fintech charity Pennies has teamed up with new mobile payments service for micro-sellers, IPOSUP – to provide small businesses (for the first time) a way to collect micro-donations for charity, as their customers pay for goods and services.
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.
– 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)?
– Introduction
– Deep fakes
– SIM swap scams
– SMS OTP fraud
– Session hijacking via RATs
– Originality is key
– Introduction
– Reducing false positives and negatives
– Know Your User
– Automating fraud response
– Conclusion
Leading brands in the world of open banking today announced an important new open banking challenge: The VRP Hackathon. It is organised by Open Future World, Ozone and UK Finance and sponsored by Accenture, Mastarcard, VOLT and Worldpay.
A summary of the findings of Yobota’s recent survey into how banking and financial services firms responded to covid-19 in terms of digital transformation and technology uptake.
Cash payments have been in decline in the UK over the past decade, with contactless payment becoming the popular choice. But with the limit on contactless transactions set to double to £100 by the end of the year, what chance does cash stand? In this new article from Ingenico’s Contactless 2021 series, Blair Stalker examines the impact of the change and the #SCA mitigations against an increase in fraud.
Episode Six is transforming the buy now, pay later (BNPL) landscape, by putting control in the hands of card issuers versus the acquirer or other third parties. For the first time, issuers can implement changes at the account level in real-time. To understand why this is important, we take a look at the interest in BNPL and how it works.
EML and Vault are helping businesses, suppliers and event organisers get employees, customers and attendees back faster in Australia by incentivising Coronavirus vaccinations.
In the first six months of this year alone, UK fintech investment figures have soared past the total investment secured in the whole of 2020 to $24.5bn, and of that total Global Processing Services has driven 49% of it ($11.96bn) through its customers and partners.
Curve customers will be able to use cashback offers from top lifestyle and travel brands
Entersekt adds BankID to its secure platform to support digital identity priorities
Thames Technology is excited to launch its new PayCard+ offering, which combines a traditional payment card with a piece of stylish wearable payment technology such as a ring, wristband or key fob.
Modulr has recently conducted the research Laggards vs Leaders: Fast-tracking financial technology innovation from 280+ interviews and surveys of CEOs and leaders at financial institutions has brought to light how financial service innovators are responding to the post-pandemic world and how they give great customer experiences.
This upcoming digital event taking place on 16 September at 10 AM BST is on the same theme bringing together financial services leaders from EverUp, Crypterium and Paysafe to explore how to fast-track financial technology innovation.
During the 45-minute live webinar, we will share with you:
-The 3 key challenges faced by today’s FinTechs and non-banks
-The tips and recommendations on how to overcome those challenges
-The 5-point plan to fast-track payments innovation to give great customer experiences
As an attendee, you can expect an exclusive access to valuable recommendations and a chance to ask the speakers any questions you might have.
Secure your place for the webinar here: https://landing.modulrfinance.com/fast-tracking-financial-technology-innovation-webinar
Focused on creating an open and transparent payments platform, Sokin offers a new generation fixed fee payment service for unlimited international transfers and cost-effective currency exchange in 38 currencies to over 200 countries and territories for one fixed monthly cost – just like Spotify and Netflix.
EML releases its Annual Report.
The fast, frictionless payment transactions experienced by consumers are influencing B2B customer expectations and driving payments digitisation. Find out about the main drivers and the unexpected benefits for businesses in this new whitepaper by Accuity, a LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Company.
Ordo and Certua are integrating Ordo’s open banking payments capability with Certua’s embedded finance platform to better serve the needs of businesses and their end customers with novel financial services.
Localise, globalise and optimise your business with our unique range of payment and banking solutions. Reduce online fraud, increase conversions and drive business growth across the world.
The distribution of this banking trojan is one of its main strengths since the use of text messages impersonating delivery services companies is a really good idea for deceiving the victims and getting them to install the malicious application.
The mandatory geolocation in banking transactions came into force in Mexico as of March 23, 2021
Today is a monumental day for us and we’re delighted to announce that Revelock · A Feedzai Company is getting acquired by Feedzai.
Our CEO Pablo de la Riva Ferrezuelo explains how – by joining forces – the two companies are stepping up the fight against financial crime in this era of cashless commerce..
For e-commerce and contact centre payments, cards have been the only payment option but are costly to businesses and increasingly difficult to use for consumers. Open banking regulation and technologies has created new options for businesses
Maslife partners with Paynetics for a new AI-powered payment and wellbeing app
New partnership aims to improve financial wellbeing through a gamified app experience
Currencycloud is working with partners to research and write a report on the current state of embedded finance and the future trends of what to expect in the coming years. As you are an expert in the industry, we’d love to capture your thoughts. Please complete our survey, it should take no more than 3-5 minutes.
Moorwand, a payments solution provider, today launched a report that reveals fintechs who outsource to specialist partners generate nearly £1m in additional revenue.
The report ‘Specialists vs. generalists: How do fintechs fuel growth?’ explores why and how fintechs outsource to third parties, the importance of outsourcing for fintech growth, and the impact of working with specialists or generalists on fintech businesses.
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