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Join us to hear from our leading experts, Alison Donnelly, James Borley, Philip Creed and Jamie Cooke on what the key regulatory themes that will shape the financial services industry

While the rest of the industry grandstands, Token’s collaborative approach is leading the connectivity race in Europe. Todd Clyde, CEO of Token, explains. Over the past several months, you have

Control is one of the hottest topics in the world of payments and financial services — and it seems poised to have a major impact on the world of banking going

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London, 15th November 2019 – Banking Circle, the ground-breaking provider of financial services infrastructure has been shortlisted for three awards in the upcoming Card & Payments Awards. Banking Circle Virtual

Niels Bester, SVP of Products, has written an article for Global Banking & Finance Review Magazine Issue 17. Read it here

GB Group plc (AIM: GBG), the global identity data intelligence specialist, announces its unaudited results for the six months ended 30 September 2019. See them here

London, 14th November 2019 – Banking Circle Lending has been named Best Alternative SME Lender in the £0-£250,000 category at the Credit Strategy Lending Awards. Announced at a ceremony during

In an earlier article by Entersekt’s chief commercial officer, Dewald Nolte, we explored the challenges and opportunities faced by banks to create a smooth, secure and successful remote onboarding process for their

Matthew Furneaux, director of GBG, outlines how Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are impacting retail. See the video on CNBC’s website

London, November 2019 – Banking Circle has been named as a Gold winner in the Juniper Research Future Digital Award for Payment Innovation: Best B2B Payment Platform. Banking Circle is

Consumers today are spoiled for choice – which clothes to wear, gadgets to buy and payment networks to use to acquire these goods. The competition is tight for merchants and

Black Friday deals can seem almost too good to be true, and while the annual event may be famed for hefty discounts and offers, there are some cases where scammers may

Entitled “Tangled”, the new advert encourages families to join Park Christmas Savings and spread the cost of Christmas throughout the year  New “£1k Christmas” social media giveaway for 2019 and

Digital security is a basic necessity today, guarding our online footprints, protecting us from malicious actors, and preventing financial loss and theft of private data. Still, when users are confronted

Money laundering is a huge challenge. According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), between 2 and 5% of global GDP is laundered each year.  What’s more, fraud

London-based Regtech firm Napier, specialists in AI for compliance and AML, announced today that it has been recognised in the 2020 edition of the annual RegTech 100 list of the

In September, I blogged about some of the findings of our 2019 German consumer survey, focusing on respondents’ attitudes to mobile banking and payments security. Today, I’ll look at consumers’ appetite for

GBG, the global specialist in identity data intelligence, announces James Miller, Chief People Officer, has been named one of the world’s most influential LGBT+ leaders, presented by Yahoo Finance. Read the rest

Architecture built, alpha being tested, mobile app working and agreement with PwC and IBM has been defined ARYZE is happy to announce that our first alpha has been developed, and

W2 is proud to announce that – after a lot of hard work from all areas of the business – we are officially certified to the ISO 27001:2013 Information Security standard. Read the rest

Fraud poses a threat to all business organisations, irrespective of size – and the high value and volume of transactions throughout the manufacturing sector can make these companies especially attractive

The bank uses Dejamobile’s ReadyToTap Payment solution to add NFC payments to its Android mobile banking application and has worked with payment solution provider Valitor to deliver the project. Arion Bank is Iceland’s leading digital

Once again, W2 makes the RegTech100 list; a select bunch of tech companies transforming compliance, risk management and cybersecurity. The world’s most innovative technology solution providers that address the challenges and opportunities of dealing

See Fintech Finance’s interview with Ed Adshead-Grant, Bottomline Technologies about Open Banking use cases here

Omni-channel payments specialist CashFlows has appointed a new Chief Operating Officer to drive development and delivery of its operating and scaling capabilities. Helen Smith joins the London-based business from Earthport

With the ‘dress rehearsal’ stage 1 ISO 27001:2013 audit behind you, stage 2 is upon you all too quickly. Following the stage 1 audit, you may still have further work

Each year, the bobsguide Rankings become more competitive, reflective of the vibrant fintech ecosystem and the market it serves. We ask the market to vote for those firms they believe

Payments sales talent is in high demand. Experience and payments networks are highly valued, but the industry is also seeking a new breed of sales person who can succeed in

Although the idea of an all-day workshop might seem time-consuming and demanding to some, we find the benefits of employing such a collaborative environment between a few our key clients

Payments is a fast-moving landscape, and at Bottomline we’ve been analysing the latest trends and initiatives for the past four years. Our Business Payments Barometer takes the pulse of the

Amendments to the Law No. 6493 which defines the purpose, roles and responsibilities of payment services pave the way for FinTech in Turkey. With these developments, Burhan Eliaçık, President of

Edinburgh-based FinTech Modulr has today announced it will invest the majority of £20m in the Scottish fintech industry, to drive disruptive innovation and further boost Scotland’s growing prominence as a

Leading UK card manufacturer and bureau allpay.cards, has designed the new Sterling corporate card for Caxton Business. Caxton, named as FX provider of the year in the FT and Investors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is taking every opportunity to warn payment and e-money institutions over “unacceptable” practices in safeguarding client funds, as well as around risk governance and financial

Visa signs partnership agreement with FTSE250 TBC Bank’s Space, the first Georgian neobank, to develop innovative banking solutions in Georgia and beyond in the growing digital payments landscape TBILISI, 14

With a stated ambition of wanting to be the ‘operating system of everyday life’, Uber Money is a natural progression for the company. That’s because payments are a central component

Leading UK card manufacturer and bureau, allpay.cards recently presented at the PIF AGM & Summit held on 18 & 19 September in West Sussex. The Summit explored the opportunities and

The Brexit saga continues, but what does the FCA expect from you? At the time of writing on the 17th of October, we sit almost two weeks from the scheduled

WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX), a leading financial technology service provider, announced it has further expanded its global footprint by entering the Middle Eastern payments market by issuing virtual cards in

Today we’ve launched our public crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Many milestones led to this, and we’re massively excited about what the future holds. Read the rest of the announcement on

In the ever-evolving world of anti-money laundering firms are under more pressure and scrutiny than ever before, especially when it comes to verifying the identity of customers. In this blog,

In the Consumer-Centric Authentication Study: Transforming the consumer’s digital banking experience, an Entersekt collaboration, PYMNTS.com analyzes survey response data from 2,835 American consumers regarding their control over and preferences for authentication controls

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Business France’s flagship event was held on Wednesday October 23rd and gathered together the whole French Tech ecosystem – digital professionals and innovative SMEs/start-ups with an international development project. Read

Sherif Samy, SVP North America at Entersekt has joined Karen Webster for a PYMNTS podcast. Listen to it here

The platform economy and cryptocurrency spaces are booming global industries. But as a result of regulatory changes, they’re not easy spaces to penetrate. Read the rest of Paybase CEO Anna

With testing complete, we’ve now launched the W2 Status Page; a new means of keeping our clients informed of service disruptions, planned or possible outages as well as providing retrospectives