The industry welcomes the deadline extension of the temporary registration regime for crypto firms but the regulatory uncertainty created by the lengthy assessment process may drive businesses out of the UK. Read the VIXIO insight to learn more.
The Access Group has announced the launch of Access PaySuite, its new FCA authorised payment division that is focused on integrated payment experiences.
Modulr Pulse, our quarterly insights event, is back on July 20th for a discussion about ‘How to avoid the payments transformation sinkhole’.
Getting payments right is increasingly tougher for established financial institutions so we have brought along a consultant who regularly manages payment transformation projects, to give their advice on how to avoid the various pitfalls and sinkholes.
Register for the event and secure your place today: https://landing.modulrfinance.com/how-to-avoid-the-payments-transformation-sinkhole-epa
Trust Payments, the global unified payments group, has partnered with Zip, the first Buy Now, Pay Later provider to join its network of payment partners. The agreement means UK merchants using Trust Payments’ platform can offer Zip at check out and allow customers to pay over four interest-free instalments.
Blue Train Marketing’s latest blog piece explores the adoption of green marketing and details 5 green marketing strategies you can take on board to make your business more eco-friendly!
Most consumers are more than aware of basic payment solutions, especially after the pandemic struck their lives and their usual means of payment. Even before the new normal, many consumers were familiar with e-commerce and therefore, businesses were already used to accepting online payments on their websites or their apps. If these payments seemed pretty straightforward for consumers, technology now allows for more streamlined payment solutions that make it easier to take online payments on your website.
Manchester FinTech firm AccessPay is now listed on Sage Marketplace as first combined payments and cash management solution.
PPS are the payments and banking provider behind Talenom’s new banking service for SMEs. This partnership will enable financial services to be embedded into Talenom’s emerging SME solution ‘Accounting Alex’.
As a result of working with PPS, small businesses that use Talenom’s ‘Accounting Alex’ service will now be able to set up a bank account in minutes and enable savings on fees by more than 50%.
Partnership to provide users uninterrupted fraud protection throughout their entire online or mobile banking journeys based on digital onboarding with document verification and authentication with facial, periocular and voice recognition combined with behavior biometrics and behavior analytics.
The need for a new kind of fraud defence
– What we mean by Active Defence
– The problem Active Defence solves: Identity attacks and manipulation attacks
– Three capabilities to avert any ID attack
Partnership promotes an Active Defense approach to protecting financial institutions from online fraud attacks.
Sokin has agreed a three-year deal to support the club’s international payments and FX needs.
The new 2021 Chargeback Field Report, published by Chargebacks911, reveals that Covid-19 had a significant impact on the payments space. However, many of the trends observed were already underway years before the pandemic struck. There are opportunities for merchants—and other entities in the payments space—to improve procedures and eliminate risk. However, this will take a significant effort.
PayAlly, the fully integrated payments ecosystem for SMEs is using Banking Circle solutions to improve its multi-currency B2B cross border payments services. In particular, the new partnership gives PayAlly access to a wider choice of payment rails through the Banking Circle super-correspondent banking network, thereby improving the speed and cost of international payments for its e-commerce customers.
What is a refund? When it comes to open banking, it’s not as straightforward as you might think. In this quick guide we’ll explain what you can do to refund payments through open banking, why we don’t think that’s good enough, and what we’ve done to enable instant refunds.
Here at Transact365 this past week we hosted a CEO Roundtable in partnership with the Payments Association. Take a look at some of the highlights from the session here.
Partnership between Revelock and Sionic promotes an Active Defense approach to protecting financial institutions from online fraud attacks
The Great Kompli-Global KYB Bake-Off is designed to highlight how fraudsters are avoiding detection by analysts potentially not having all the right fraud prevention ingredients
The latest piece of groundbreaking industry research from dispute resolution specialist Chargebacks911, The 2021 Chargeback Field Report assessed over 400 merchants across the US and the UK and identified a dramatic rise in friendly fraud over the past three years, with 80% of merchants seeing an increase in false claims.
In addition, while 94% of merchants consider friendly fraud to be a problem for their business, less than 30% are taking steps to combat it. This behaviour indicates that there is a knowledge gap preventing merchants from confidently combating fraudulently filed chargebacks.
Other headline stats include:
• 68% of merchants have seen the pandemic cause an increase to their chargebacks
• Nearly a third of merchants experience difficulties contesting illegitimate chargebacks
• And for every friendly fraud case that goes uncontested, 50% of cardholders will go on to commit the crime again in less than 60 days
– Nearly 12,000 investors raised £9.9m in just 54 hours
– Fastest raise to hit £6m, setting a new Crowdcube record
– Surge in demand from customers and retail investors in race to £10m
Kani will replace Sodexo Engage’s legacy data management systems which ran manually, becoming a drain on time, money, and resources, and lacking the scale required to handle the sheer volume of data processed by the engagement payments giant. In doing so, Kani will simplify Sodexo Engage’s complex transaction data and provide a single space for data management. In addition, the platform will provide real-time, actionable data insights that allow for Sodexo’s critical business decisions to be implemented faster and with greater efficiency.
Ordo, AccoutingWEB and the ACCA carried out a survey regarding recruitment for 2021. Results were analysed by Cranfield Business School and showed 45% of businesses expect to recruit more than pre-COVID in 2019.
We are really excited to shine the spotlight on some of the best-known brands in #Fintech during our Superhero Spotlight Series.
A week-long event packed with articles, research reports and LinkedIn and YouTube live streamed interviews with over 30 of Fintech’s finest superheroes.
Register for the agenda: https://bit.ly/3ySP2lL and keep an eye out for reminders of the #livestream sessions.
#Payments #Banking #FintechSuperhero
“Should we build in, or should we buy in?” This is one of the oldest software-questions management teams have to answer. Yet we believe that this should be less of a consideration regarding whether or not an organisation can build something. Rather, the right question is why they should build it.
EML is using Microsoft and the toolset in Azure to accelerate the global FinTech’s go-to-market capabilities.
In order to receive 3D Secure messages, process said messages, and authenticate card users, issuing banks must deploy Access Control Servers (ACS). To ensure that transaction integrity is never compromised, the Okay software works in parallel to prevent attacks and protect user information during confidential transactions. The process looks a little something like this:
Entersekt CEO Schalk Nolte explains how fraudsters can be stopped by placing intelligent roadblocks in online transactions.
With the advent of passwords at MIT 60 years ago, Gerhard Oosthuizen Entersekt CTO, contends that it’s time that we replace passwords with more robust technologies.
With regulators increasing their focus on compliance, pressure on financial institutions of all sizes to have compliant open APIs is growing. To help simplify the delivery of high-performing APIs, Ozone has launched the Open Finance Hub.
Ordo now partnering with Payment Service Providers to transform #paymentsprocess with end-to-end, Open Banking Solutions that deliver the perfect alternative to card schemes, including eCommerce and QR code Point of Sale solutions.
Join us in this insightful webinar, with a range of experts in the mobile payments, cards and risk space, to learn how payments are changing, and how mobile applications can help strengthen authentication and improve your customer experience – all at the same time.
The new PXP research report ‘The COVID-19 Effect on European E-Commerce and Retail’,
explores UK and European consumer attitudes to the future of retail shopping.
Compliance, requirements, deadlines, oh my! By now you should have a comprehensive overview of what to be aware of as PSP. As such, it is time to wrap up the topic of SCA compliance. In this article, we cover how Okay uses security evaluations to fine-tune our product as well as how we can help you meet SCA PSD2 RTS compliance standards.
Compliance. A scary term for any payment service provider (PSP) in a world of increasingly stricter regulations and requirements. To make it a little less scary, we are opening the PSD2 RTS Compliance door to extract some key points of interest. Read on for the fundamental requirements PSPs should be aware of if issuing cards or e-money payments and why said requirements are necessary.
Join our upcoming webinar on May 11 to hear how fintech partnerships are driving innovation in payments in 2021.
ekko partners with Paynetics UK to power fintech arm of new app that is turning the tide on climate change
One of the more vexing problems of the modern age when it comes to international business is that regulatory regimes often do not keep pace with technological innovation.
Nonetheless, novel solutions to B2B cross-border business have emerged in the form of virtual IBANs, financial instruments that drive the innovation economy and enable new, powerful business models.
Here we have outlined three ways that virtual IBANs are transforming the way companies do business locally and abroad:
When it comes to digital banking and compliance, robust KYC practices not only prevent fraud and financial losses but also strengthen a firm’s ability to conduct business with confidence.
This is typically because of the four key elements of strong KYC practices that make sure firms know who they’re doing business with and what to expect from that relationship.
We’ve identified the four essential elements of effective compliance in KYC practices for digital banking in order to show you how they help improve the competitiveness of businesses of any size or scale:
The year 2020 saw many of the innovations and prognostications of analysts come true as contactless payments and digital banking solutions drove the field of Fintech innovations. Looking ahead, however, 2021 could be the year that consolidates much of this growth and prepares the economy for the next stage of digitization.
We at Monneo have identified five major trends that we think are driving the Fintech innovations in digital banking, in 2021 and beyond:
The digital banking era is upending traditional payment solutions and transforming the global financial industry in the process. And this is on both the corporate and consumer level with changes in payments solutions reaching into every facet of the international economy.
These innovations in digital banking are not only enabling increased efficiencies and expediting capital flows at a rate previously unthinkable but also are leading the way in changing the dynamic and level of depth of the business-customer relationship.
The reason why re-enrollment is so sensitive is simple: when you do an app-based strong customer authentication (SCA), the user has already been authenticated on the device. This means that it is possible to check the ‘possession’ factor using a device fingerprint from before.
If a customer has a new device, and has an existing device registered to their account, we recommend using SCA to enroll. A typical way to do this would be to use a QR code that the user can scan from one device to another. In the case where there are no existing devices linked to an account, we recommend that the customer go through a full “know your customer” (KYC) procedure in order to re-enroll their new device.
One of the ways we’ve helped our customers strengthen their re-enrollment process is to implement a mechanism known as ‘magic link’. A magic link is a link received through a semi-secure channel that authorises the customer to use a particular device. Using a link like this can be practical, as the re-enrollment procedure might be stretched out over time.
Interested in hearing more about Magic Links? Be sure to read the full article at okaythis.com/blog.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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