Industry News

When does a great deal turn out to be not such a great deal? When a credit card surcharge is added right at the end. Such hidden surcharges will be

Arkea Banking Services is proud to be the sponsor of a team of the “4L Trophy”. It is a race of 6 000 km for students in which the iconic Renault

6th December 2017 – London — Worldpay, a global leader in payments, has announced that it will partner with Klarna, a leader in invoice and credit based payments, to further enhance its

Faster and real-time payment initiatives broke new ground in 2017, but so far, B2B payments has yet to really find its place in an accelerated world. In December’s PYMNTS Faster Payments

The economic impact of crimes like money laundering and terrorist financing cannot be overstated. They drain resources from a country’s productive economic activity – potentially destabilising its financial sector and

What do card issuing banks and eCommerce merchants share in common? The ever-growing burden of card-not-present fraud. Both sides respond with sophisticated arsenals of multi-layered fraud tools that aim to

The Rt Hon. Nicky Morgan MP chair of the Treasury Committee wrote to LINK Chairman Sir Mark Boleat, on 27th November. Read more here.

Season ticket holders can use the contactless technology to enter stadium and make fast and easy payments at the POS or online As one of the leading providers of digital

Aschheim (Munich)/London:  Today, Wirecard and Mastercard made Pay by Bank app, a fully digital payment solution, available to all Wirecard merchants in the UK. Pay by Bank app was created by

December 22, 2017, London/Tokyo: JCB International Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “JCB”), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd, has partnered with iZettle, the award-winning Swedish fintech company,

Metro Bank, the revolution in British banking, is now offering customers the option to set up a new payee on its mobile banking app. The new functionality is designed to

London, 14th December 2017 – Saxo Payments Banking Circle Virtual IBAN has been awarded Best Corporate Payments Initiative in the Banking Technology Awards 2017. Ground-breaking B2B financial utility, Banking Circle,

LONDON, Jan. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Antoniella Gauci, Risk Manager at Pilatus Bank, compares the continued investment in fintech to a life insurance policy for banks. Gauci argues that banks

Following a consultation in August, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has now published a document that sets out our decision on the approach to the collection of PSR regulatory fees

LONDON, Jan. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — It is an undeniable fact that most Millennials carry some sort of instinctive ability to understand and utilize digital technology simply because they

We’re proud to announce a further strengthening of our global eKYC platform, introducing a new Danish eKYC service – available to both current and new clients across the globe. More

(LONDON) January 4, 2018 – Locke Lord’s Siobhan Moore, an experienced cards and payments lawyer with a strong profile in the payments industry, has been named Global Head of the Firm’s

The use of credit and debit cards has grown for decades, and many observers, including Payments UK, are expecting growth in both value and volume of payments to continue. Recently this

NEW YORK, December 11, 2017 — American Express today announced it is eliminating the requirement for merchants to collect Card Members’ signatures for all purchase transactions at the point of

IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, announced that WiZink, a bank that specializes in credit cards and simple savings solutions that respond to its

The tech industry is booming, with innovations such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cloud computing and big data disrupting everything from financial services and manufacturing to the way we communicate

IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, today announces its partnership with FlexiGroup, Australia’s market leader in Point of Sale consumer and commercial finance to

At Coinify, we play an active role in mainstreaming the use of blockchain currencies. Partnering up  with the leading global bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain was a very important milestone in this regard. In

London, UK. 15 November 2017: Modulr is today announcing an industry-first real-time inbound and outbound payments SLA that allows businesses to automate high volumes of complex payments any time, even out-of-hours and

Contis, a leading provider of end-to-end banking, payments and processing solutions in the UK and Europe, has today accelerated the revolution within business banking market with the launch of its

London, December 2017 – A royal wedding, the FIFA World Cup, predictions of an extremely close midterm election in the US and the on-going negotiations for the UK to exit

RIVERWOODS, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Discover announced today that cardmembers and Discover Bankcustomers who own an iPhone X can take advantage of Face ID to sign in to the Discover Mobile app. The

Private equity firm Dunedin has invested £44m in a fintech firm in the third largest investment seen in the sector in the UK this year. Advisers on the deal included PwC, Dickson

In a recent blog post we explored the underlying concepts behind machine learning and its tremendous benefits in fighting application fraud. Since then, I had the opportunity to speak with one of

New regulations will require payments to have two factors of authentication London, 5th July 2018 – With new EU regulations coming into place next September, Mastercard is predicting a significant

Which works better for modeling credit risk: traditional scorecards or artificial intelligence and machine learning? Given the excitement around AI today, this question is inevitable. It’s also a bit silly.

Signicat is pleased to announce we have formally become a member of ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) joining their technical committee on Electronic Signatures and Infrastructure (ESI). ESI is the

Partnership will seek to help expand digital payments acceptance and establish a new payment standard with ‘Pay by Bank’ app, as well as focus on making digital payments even more

Information security teams around the world are working hard to protect their businesses from data breaches and other threats. But do those businesses truly understand how good a job they’re

Konsentus was proud this month to have been a Finalist at the BBVA Fintech Awards.  From 100’s of Global entries we were selected as one of the Finalists with the

In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other

The cards and Payments team are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Payments Association Award in the category of Professional Service Organisation. The team strive to provide legal support

London, 18th July 2018 – Saxo Payments Banking continues to dominate the cross border payments sector as a disrupting force, as it was named Best Corporate Payments Initiative at the

One of the largest payment solution providers in the Philippines redeploys staff to more strategic work using FICO® Customer Communication Services Read more here.

Marqeta is delighted to have moved into our new Shoreditch office in July and to have Dean King, formerly of Tuxedo and Paysafe joining the team as Business Development Manager.

GSMA service promises faster onboarding for remote banking customers London, United Kingdom, July 19, 2018 — Entersekt, an innovator in mobile-first fintech solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement with the

FICO® Enterprise Security Score aims to raise global cybersecurity effectiveness SAN JOSE, CA — June 27, 2018 Highlights: FICO is offering free subscriptions that allow users to access their FICO Enterprise Security

IDEMIA, the world leader in Augmented Identity, has been awarded a five year contract by the United Kingdom Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme to deliver a new Fingerprint Matcher Service.

In July, Fortytwo Data CEO Julian Dixon joined the All Party Parliamentary Group for Digital Currencies Evidence session chaired by Lord Harris of Haringey and John Howell MP at the

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 12, 2018 Highlights: FICO has been awarded seven new patents for fraud detection, AI and analytics Three of the patents granted are related to the

Keith Briscoe, CMO of Ethoca, shares with us their success story: how the company helped easyJet in preventing fraud, minimizing losses and ensure fraudsters are kept off their planes. Read more