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New fraud rules under PSD2 demand extra fraud checks, but customers not ready to hand over phone numbers. Read more

Paybase dived straight into 2019 by hosting their 2nd Collaborative Workshop.  Their supportive community for platform businesses is definitely growing, stay tuned for information on their third workshop in March!

UKGCVA Conference 2019 – The Future is Now   UKGCVA Conference 2019 is just six weeks away – the flagship Gift Card Industry event of the year takes place over

Payment Service Providers are pushing to implement their PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solutions ready for the September deadline. But of course it’s not just them that will be affected

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UK-based fintech Arro Money has launched a crowdfunding campaign with plans to tackle the issue of financial exclusion in the UK and beyond.  There are currently 1.5 million people in

Project Women in PayTech held its largest Women in PayTech event to date. The event, held at the Post Office headquarters in Moorgate, hosted inspirational keynote discussions on how to

The Payments Association is delighted to announce the new Benefactor behind the Payments Association’s Project Banking Access, Galileo Processing. The project, formerly called Project Rome, under its new specification will

The Payments Association is delighted to announce that FICO have renewed their support as a Benefactor behind Project Futures. Project Futures provides thought leadership on new innovations and technological developments,

Project Inclusion has received a response from Guy Opperman, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Work & Pensions, following on from the letter published in December. The response

The activities of Project Financial Crime were promoted on Consult Hyperion’s podcast series. Championed by project lead Jane Jee, the podcast highlighted where technology can help the payments industry meet

Project International Trade is delighted to announce Scott Abrahams, Senior Vice President at Mastercard and Payments Association Advisory Board member, as the new Project Mentor. Project International Trade encourages the

Project Regulator responded on behalf of the Payments Association and its members to the PSR’s consultation on the general directions of implementing Confirmation of Payee. This response highlights the perspectives

DIGITAL DISRUPTOR SIGNS UP TO DIRECT DEBIT The UK’s first bank built exclusively for tablet and smartphone users has turned to popular payment method Direct Debit to boost its offering

LONDON, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vanilla®, a global open-loop gift card brand offered exclusively by InComm, today announced the launch of a new product line with its partner PrePay Solutions Ltd., Vanilla Go,

ATLANTA, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — InComm, a leading prepaid product and payments technology company, today announced it has partnered with digital banking alternative Revolut to offer their prepaid cards at wilko stores, the retail chain at

What factors are reshaping the future of global payments? Let us know in this survey Have your voice heard by taking part in this year’s survey: Reshaping the global payments

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Entersekt, an innovator in mobile-first fintech solutions, today announced the addition of digital identity and business development expert Jennifer Singh to assist in strategic business development. Singh’s appointment comes

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced that SINNAD, a leading GCC third-party payment service provider based in Bahrain,

At the end of November 2018, one of the largest private banks in Azerbaijan – Unibank completed the migration of its personalisation centre from several third-party solutions to an in-house card personalisation

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, is very proud to announce that CloudCard+, a Strong Customer Authentication solution, based on mobile and biometrics, has been recognized as a winner

LONDON, 9 January 2019: International payments company Moorwand has announced that it is launching the first pre-paid corporate and consumer cards to be issued in the UK in partnership with

At this moment of time we are seeing the UK payments landscape shifting significantly. Mobile technology, real time payments, blockchain, PSD2 and Open Banking are all bringing disruption to the Payments

(Get 15% discount on the Forum using code PAY15) The Center for Financial Professionals have interviewed a few speakers ahead of their 2nd Annual Payments Forum 2019. Here is a

The payments industry is a rapidly advancing sector with a range of regulatory changes on the horizon. Given the fundamentals of the payments industry on the banking industry as a

No signature strip and it will degrade in waste. Innovative new card from leading digital bank challenger coming early this year London, 3rd January 2019: Cashplus, the leading digital banking

The UK payments landscape is shifting significantly. Mobile technology, Real Time payments, blockchain, PSD2 and Open Banking are all bringing disruption to the Payments world. This white paper analyses the impact

Find out more about Request to Pay at our Centre of Excellence website, a one stop shop for all things Request to Pay. Learn about Request to Pay by viewing

It’s that time of year again. I’ve had a chat with my colleagues at Consult Hyperion, gone back over my notes from the year’s events, taken a look at our

10 December 2018, London, UK: Contis Group, the award-winning banking, payments and processing services provider, has launched a new fast-track programme in partnership with Visa, providing entrepreneurs and start-ups with

At Visa, we believe in acceptance everywhere – from the pitch to the boardroom. It’s because of this, that we’re proud to announce our ground-breaking partnership with UEFA to support

All Bahraini banks moving quickly to comply with Central Bank’s adoption mandate; 11 banks already connected via single open banking API in regulatory sandbox 12th December 2018 – Signalling the

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Mi BANK will leverage Fiserv technology and expertise as it opens its doors as

UEFA has announced a landmark multi-year partnership with Visa. The global payments technology company becomes the first ever UEFA sponsor dedicated to women’s football, following the unbundling by UEFA of

CAPE TOWN, South Africa–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Entersekt, an innovator in mobile-first fintech solutions, today announced that it has gained EMVCo certification for its 3-D Secure 2 access control server. EMVCo is a

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SINGAPORE – Apple Pay users can now make near-field communication (NFC) payments worldwide on Singtel’s mobile wallet app, Dash, which has just been accepted on Apple Pay. The tie-up came alongside the

We’re delighted to announce that our CEO Myles Stephenson has been appointed Deputy Chair to the The Payments Association Advisory Board. Myles has been a significant contributor to the Payments Association

We are hosting our 2nd collaborative workshop for founders of platform businesses on January 17th 2019. More info on what to expect here: https://paybase.io/blog/paybase-workshop-2

Last June, at Money20/20, we published our inaugural “Mobile Banking App Review”, a comprehensive benchmark of UK mobile banking and finance apps. Mobile banking has been growing exponentially with the

PARIS (France), TORONTO (Canada) – The CB Alerts portal, developed with Ethoca, allows ecommerce merchants to collaborate with card issuing banks in near-real-time to fight fraud, reduce chargebacks. Read more here.

Anna Tsyupko is the CEO and co-founder of the B2B payments company, Paybase. They provide the most flexible payment solution for platform businesses – such as online marketplaces and gig/sharing economy

London & Aarhus – European merchant acquirer and payment institution, Clearhaus, today announced the opening of its new office in London. Headed by online payments expert Paul Barclay, Clearhaus’ new London

Paybase hosted the Sharing Economy UK festive networking event last night! It’s great to see the success platform businesses have had this year and hear the exciting plans they have

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Cost-effective, GDPR-compliant method free of paper, processing & postage The i-movo PayIN service allows organisations to send payments, refunds or claims to individuals in the form of an i-movo Secure

Konsentus, a RegTech solutions business who facilitate checking the regulatory status of Third-Party Providers enabling Financial Institutions to be PSD2 open banking compliant is pleased to announce the launch of