Industry News

Judopay launches JudoAccept to support SMEs through COVID-19 recovery

Judopay has launched its integrated payments offering, JudoAccept, that will help SMEs maintain safety and social distancing measures at the checkout as highstreets reopen.

JudoAccept totally removes the need for interaction with any sort of payment terminal by allowing businesses to use smartphones and tablets to present the customer with a QR code that can be scanned by their devices at a distance.

Removing the need for costly payment terminals, integration resources and development time, JudoAccept also presents companies with a cost-effective alternative to usual payment methods as they operate in the current economic downturn. It can also be used can also create and send payment links for items such as takeaway food, taxi fares, invoices or utility bills.

December 10, 2020

Payments Association strengthens Advisory Board to bridge the gap between fintechs and the traditional banking world

Marion King, Director of Payments, NatWest, appointed Chair of the board to help drive the Payments Association’s mission to influence and be a voice across the payments value chain London,

December 9, 2020

TagNitecrest develops Recycled PVC cards.

UK based payment card manufacturer TagNitecrest is bringing a new sustainable card option to the market for card-issuing banks. Having first introduced a degradable payment card, in 2019, the manufacturer can now offer a recycled PVC card option.

December 8, 2020

Taxi Companies in Scandinavia Go Contactless and COVID-safe with HIPS Payment Group’s QR Payment Solution

Taxi Companies in Scandinavia Go Contactless and COVID-safe with HIPS Payment Group’s QR Payment Solution, a First for the European Market Solution supports current trend towards contactless payments HIPS launches

December 7, 2020

Railsbank & Kani – Fintech Partnership Success

A discussion with Fintech Finance about Kani and Railsbank’s partnership – from automation and innovation to how partnerships are key to the fintech industry as a whole.

December 7, 2020

Elemental to Serve Latin America and Asia with Payroll Advances, Partnering with Flash Labs

Elemental.io and Flash Labs Corporation—of Big Sun Holdings Group, Inc., and a member of Hyundai BS&C family of companies—today announced a strategic partnership and joint venture to advance software development, distribution and availability of consumer credit, using financial technologies in Latin America and Asian markets.

December 7, 2020

Cybertonica brings enterprise-level anti-fraud solution to Shopify

eComm360 Fraud Prevention by Cybertonica, a new solution from the intelligent #fraud and risk management provider, is now available to Shopify merchants. The product offers enterprise-level protection and enhanced conversions while eliminating the headache of fraud and #chargebacks. This allows small and independent online businesses access to the same expert solutions as #ecommerce powerhouses.

The announcement comes following the busiest online #BlackFriday ever recorded – which saw a surge of nearly 22% on a year ago to $9 billion.

December 4, 2020

EML Is Excited To Sponsor The Betting On Sports America Digital 2020 Event On December 1st & 2nd

FinTech EML is a proud sponsor of Betting on Sports America Digital 2020.

December 4, 2020

The Payments Association announces the 2020 Payments Associationward winners at first virtual ceremony

Global Processing Services sweeps the board with five awards including Industry Contributor of the Year for Neil Harris London, United Kingdom. 27th November 2020: The The Payments Association, which promotes

November 27, 2020

Global Processing Services (GPS) selected as Department for International Trade London Export Champion

Global Processing Services (GPS) has been selected by the Department for International Trade (DIT) to become a London Export Champion. GPS joins a prestigious cohort of Export Champions who operate across various sectors, ranging from fintech to sustainable transportation, innovative food and drink products, to events management.

The London Export Champions are a group of London-based business leaders who have successfully sold overseas and are now willing to share their time and knowledge with other business leaders looking to do the same. GPS was selected due to its very successful launch in the APAC region in 2019.

November 24, 2020

algbra launches global financial ecosystem

On the 22nd of October algbra featured in an interview conducted by the The Payments Association’s Project Inclusion. algbra were interviewed by Ravindra Meshram and explained the issue of “faith-based underbanking”, whereby a segment of people may voluntarily exclude themselves from the financial system for reasons of faith.

November 16, 2020

Have Biometric Technologies Brought the FinTech Industry to the Next Level?

The future of the FinTech industry might have more to do with a person’s individual biology than numbers and chips in the future, multiple reports indicate. Known as biometric technologies, this group of payments innovations remove the old pin systems and chips of old and replace them or augment them with fingerprint scanners and other biometric methods.

November 16, 2020

Biometrics are Setting Another Revolution in the Financial Sector

Another revolution is coming for the financial sector and this one could change the way that consumers and businesses conduct themselves forever.

November 16, 2020

The Digital Banking Era Transforming the Global Online Economy

The rise of the Internet and the spread of smartphones is, together, perhaps the single most powerful force of economic change ever at any point in history.
Not only are millions of people getting connected to the wider world for the first time, but also businesses are able to get up and off of the ground with little to no investment in brick-and-mortar, traditional locations. In other words, the digital era is one of opportunity and promise.

November 16, 2020

Contis and Token Partner to Deliver New Value in Digital Payments

Payments provider Contis and Open Banking platform Token partner to deliver new value in digital payments. When complete, Contis’ 250+ clients will be able to use Token’s AISP and PISP functionality to deliver Open Banking services to their end-customers through the Contis Platform.

And Token’s merchant, digital wallet and PSP customers will be able to perform account pay-outs and refunds via the Token platform using established payment rails, such as Faster Payments in the UK, SPayments Association and SPayments Association Instant across the EEA.

November 16, 2020

Contis migrates 1 million accounts to European data centre in bold Brexit-proofing move

Contis migrated its data centres from the US to Europe, in record time and with minimal service interruption. This completes the final hurdle in Contis’ Brexit preparedness and gives clients the comfort of knowing all customer data is securely managed and processed in-region.

November 13, 2020

Brexit and COVID shutters international trade for 1.5m UK SMEs

New research released by British fintech Currensea reveals that of the 80% of British SMEs (4.72 million businesses) that trade internationally in any given year, 1.18 million have had to pause directly because of the global pandemic and a further 283,000 because of Brexit..

November 13, 2020

buguroo launches behavioral biometric 3D secure solution to curb Card-Not-Present fraud

– buguroo launches behavioral biometric 3D Secure solution
– The new 3D Secure offering
– The 3D Secure payment authentication system

November 13, 2020

PPS goes green with exceet to power sustainable cards for the fintech industry

PPS announces partnership with exceet to power sustainable cards for the fintech industry

November 12, 2020

Payments Association / For Good Causes Gift of Giving Campaign off to a flying start!

Payments Association and For Good Causes co-promoting Gift of Giving Christmas campaign with many companies signing up to celebrate Christmas with their staff by helping them support their favourite social and environmental causes

November 11, 2020

UK Payments fintech Ordo announces strategic distribution partnership with e-money platform, Contis

Tech partnership making the lives of countless SMEs easier – Ordo and Contis – a match amde in heaven!

November 9, 2020

To DCC, or not to DCC, that is not the question

Changes to EU Regulations governing DCC and the impact on the payments industry

November 5, 2020

EML FINLAB Announces Strategic Investment in Hydrogen

EML’s new FINLAB incubator has invested in Hydrogen.

November 5, 2020

EML’s FINLAB Invests in Interchecks and ignites International Expansion Aspirations

EML’s new FINLAB incubator has made its first investment in US FinTech disrupter Interchecks.

November 5, 2020

For Good Causes Christmas Gift of Giving

The Payments Association have decided to co-promote For Good Causes Christmas campaign. It’s a great opportunity to work together to make a difference. It gives: companies – a new way

November 3, 2020

Kickstart Talent in Fintech: Shape a new fintech future

UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 9AM OCTOBER 28 TH , 2020 The Fintech Power 50 launches the Fintech KICKSTART scheme to provide employment opportunities for young people. The Power 50 will act

November 3, 2020

Banking on Digital: Global Processing Services Partners with Lanistar As It Seeks to Disrupt Banking Status Quo

GPS technology will power Lanistar’s polymorphic debit card as the fintech challenger seeks to capture the Millennial and Gen-Z market London, UK – 2nd November : Leading payments issuer

November 2, 2020

Privat 3 Money picks Napier for AML

The London based E-Money solution for global citizens Privat 3 Money (P3) has selected leading anti-money laundering and intelligent compliance software provider Napier, to integrate enhanced transaction monitoring into the core P3 platform.

November 2, 2020

Barclays- Getting ready for ISO 20022 | Key things to consider

The adoption of ISO20022 is at the core of a major transformation across the payments industry- find out how Barclays is supporting customers getting ready for it, and the key benefits of the adoption.

November 2, 2020

EML Unveils FINLAB Global FinTech Incubator At EMLCON2020

EML’s New FINLAB Incubator Will Immediately Benefit Two Disruptive Tech Brands.

October 29, 2020

PPS Powers Yolt’s First Card

PPS, formerly PrePay Solutions and subsidiary of Edenred, has announced that it is powering the first card created by Yolt, the smart money app, following the companies recent launch of its contactless debit Mastercard. This partnership was formed thanks to PPS’ years of experience powering payments cards and Yolt’s desire to expand beyond the confines of the digital space and into the physical one.

October 29, 2020

Tribe Payments and Currencycloud partner to bring new Banking-as-a-Service solution to Fintechs and digital banks

Currencycloud, the leader in providing B2B embedded cross-border solutions, and Tribe Payments, a tech company dedicated to deliver the future of payments technology across the ecosystem, have partnered to deliver complete transparency to foreign exchange costs charged on international card transactions, whilst also giving customers access to multi-currency wallets.

October 27, 2020

Global Processing Services Continues International Growth with Visa Investment

October 19, 2020

Fintech startup xpate appoints former Wirecard business development expert

Wayne Mckenzie appointed Head of Business Development by xpate, bringing over 14 years of payments expertise to the up-and-coming fintech

October 13, 2020

A deckless virtual payments experience like no other

Coming soon: We’re arranging a star-studded line up of industry greats, we’re concocting carefully crafted content and we’re sourcing superb swag.

For one afternoon only, receive a generous dose of high value payments entertainment. For CTOs, COOs, CFOs, Product Managers. If you like payments, this is what you should be doing on an early December afternoon.

No decks. No awful webinar platforms. Just pure payments discussion. The theme this year: Where’s the hidden cost in payments?

October 13, 2020

Two technology leaders join forces: Giesecke+Devrient invests in Netcetera

October 13, 2020

Payments AssociationM Continuum 2020 Consumer Banking Report

Payments AssociationM’s latest Consumer Banking research uncovered five audience segments based on key behaviour patterns and summarises the motivations, attitudes, needs and expectations for each segmen.t These research insights will help the banking industry better understand the evolving needs of their customers and how to better serve them.

October 13, 2020

PPS Powers Vybe, The fintech for Generation Z

Today, PPS is announcing its partnership with France-based payment expert and card provider for teenagers, Vybe.

Due to the systems in place across France when it comes to banking and owning your own account, around five million teenagers (between 13 to 18 years old) have been left with no access to financial services.

This is a problem that Vybe aims to solve and is working with PPS to make it happen, thanks to the company’s well-tested technology infrastructure and PPS-powered Mastercard virtual cards.

October 13, 2020

Ordo is #10 in the Top 100 FinTech Disrupter rankings

Industry award announcement

October 13, 2020

PayPoint research reveals the payment options renters would like in current financial climate

With the financial pressures from COVID-19 still unclear for many, new research commissioned by payments provider, PayPoint, throws the spotlight on small adjustments landlords and lettings agencies could make to help tenants manage their finances during this uncertainty and beyond.

October 13, 2020

Judopay expands support of touch-free payments with Mastercard partnership

Judopay, a leading mobile-first payments provider, today announces its partnership with Mastercard, which will further increase Judopay’s network with a direct route to Mastercard’s Payment Gateway Services global acquiring ecosystem.

October 13, 2020

Entersekt and ndgit partner on secure open banking

Entersekt, a leader in device identity and omnichannel authentication, has announced a strategic partnership with ndgit, a Munich-headquartered open banking platform provider. The agreement makes Entersekt’s state-of-the-art strong customer authentication and smart messaging solutions available on the ndgit Marketplace, where financial services providers can access a carefully curated set of fintech products in a secure hosting environment.

October 13, 2020

Entersekt rolls out behavioral analytics for real-time risk scoring with NuData Security

Entersekt, a leader in device identity and omnichannel authentication, today announced a partnership with NuData Security, a Mastercard company. This agreement allows the fintech to tightly integrate NuData’s behavioral analytics solution NuDetect with the Entersekt Secure Platform.

October 13, 2020

Lets not let COVID steal Christmas 2020!!

For Good Causes clients are taking the fight back to COVID-19, with an alternative approach to celebrating Christmas 2020.

Steve Wilks describes a campaign that means companies can feel good about Christmas, and feel good about helping others feel better about it too.

October 13, 2020

xpate CEO Mike Shafro to advise Industra Bank

xpate CEO Mike Shafro has been appointed Ecommerce Advisor to help shape future of Industra Bank

October 13, 2020

British fintech Currensea launches first-of-its-kind open banking debit card to propel small businesses trading internationally

British fintech Currensea is today launching a first-of-its-kind open banking debit card for small businesses, enabling them to make international transactions through their existing bank account without any of the charges and with low fees competitive with the leading challenger banks.

October 13, 2020

Currensea ranks 3rd on BusinessCloud’s 100 FinTech Disrupters list for 2020

We’re delighted to announce that Currensea been placed 3rd among 100 UK companies in BusinessCloud’s 100 FinTech Disrupters list for 2020.

October 13, 2020

Europe First? The Future of the EU Single Digital Market

Is the European Union going to be the first major global economy to embrace the digital economy advancements, all the benefits it brings forward, and all the digital banking solutions that are coming along the evolution of tech services? What will the EU Single Digital Market bring up on the business horizon?

October 12, 2020