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Contis hires Businesswoman of the Year, Lara Oyesanya, as General Counsel & Chief Risk Officer.
Cybertonica, a leading risk and fraud management platform using advanced data science techniques to meet the challenges in payments and fintech of risk, AML, compliance and fraud detection, today announced a partnership with Extra Loyalty, the award-winning Turkish loyalty and wallet platform specialised in end-to-end customised loyalty programmes and mobile technologies.
The future is coming at us a lot more quickly than anyone anticipated. In light of the novel coronavirus and the pandemic it caused, keeping up with the technological advancement seems to be a top priority in most industries.
While many market analysts fingered digital banking as the wave of the future, nearly everyone is shocked at how fast these trends have accelerated in the past couple of months.
As of 1st July 2020, the Aston Lark Financial Institutions team will join the Protean Risk brand, making the combined team one of the largest dedicated brokers servicing UK and European financial services firms.
Protean Risk was acquired by Aston Lark and joined the wider group in November 2019. Protean Risk was the first acquisition that was completed for Aston Lark following Goldman Sachs’ investment in the company in September 2019.
The decision to combine the two teams under the Protean brand was due to its position as a market-leading specialist in the sector and to strengthen its offering to clients. Since its founding in 2008, Protean Risk has offered a breadth of knowledge and experience to its clients, as well as a high level of personal service. Since 2016, Protean Risk has held the coveted status of Lloyd’s of London Broker, which has entitled them to transact business in, and directly access the Lloyd’s of London market.
Globalisation is an opportunity for businesses of all sizes around the world, but traditional banking continues to favour large corporations, at the expense of SMEs.
Mike Laven says of the partnership with Ripple, “Ripple’s solution will help us to extend our network to new parts of the world, removing more barriers to payments for our clients.”
Contis launches ‘Carer Banking’ – a new product allowing banks and fintechs to support their vulnerable customers continuing to shield due to Covid-19.
Tony Craddock, Director General of the The Payments Association, spoke with ARYZE, to talk through some of the biggest payments developments taking place due to COVID-19 and how involved parties
Online crime gangs have used the coronavirus pandemic to scam consumers and businesses across the globe. So, this blog examines 4 key types of Covid19-related fraud to help keep you and your business safe.
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Finicity, a leading North American provider of real-time access to financial data and insights. The purchase price is US$825 million, and Finicity’s existing shareholders have the potential for an earn-out of up to an additional $160 million, if performance targets are met.
The Payments Association and its members strongly urge the FCA to unfreeze Wirecard Card Services accounts, or facilitate a solution to enable safe access to e-money by e-money holders affected, as soon as it can, for the sake of cardholders, companies and their employees, and the UK fintech industry. Without this freezing being removed rapidly, we believe there will be significant and lasting damage to individuals, companies and the UK’s current and future prospects as leaders in fintech.
During RSA Conference 2020, Yubico interview Guido Ronchetti, XTN’s CTO, about the challenges related to PSD2 and open banking.
Banks are shutting down tens of thousands of accounts every year due to suspected fraud; on average, Santander closes down 24,000 accounts each year, and just under half of all those are suspected mule accounts – a huge proportion.
When we’re on the subject of malware and cyber attacks, we usually focus our attention on cybercrime as a totally unknown, uniform entity. Nevertheless, cybersecurity specialists, such as buguroo’s team, are always mindful not only of the codes used to develop computer viruses, but also of the processes adopted to implement campaigns and the targets they were aimed at. It is these three elements that provide a lot of clues as to who may be behind them.
New account fraud, also known as Account Opening Fraud or Online Account Origination Fraud, is when fraudsters use stolen or synthetic identities to open new bank accounts, with a view to maxing out their credit limits before disappearing into thin air, usually within 90 days.
Xwebinar is an on-demand webinar series focused on cyber threats and fraud topics. This episode talks about one of the most common threats: Account Takeover also knows as ATO.
For the second consecutive year, XTN is listed as Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Online Fraud Detection.
The Summer of Payments series brings you everything you’d ever want to know about UK, EU & card payment schemes as well as the latest and greatest in payments technology in five 30 minute entertaining doses.
An insightful webinar session hosted by OpenPayd that focussed on overcoming banking and payments challenges for digital asset businesses. Businesses dealing with digital assets have always been faced with significant
Newport, South Wales – 21st May 2020 – W2, the leading provider of real-time digital solutions for global regulatory compliance, announced today that it has joined forces with neobanking group
This webinar discusses why open banking is the transformation the payments industry has been waiting for, the potential barriers it faces along the way and what we can all do
Free contactless payment ring giveaway for NHS staff Payment providers, Moorwand and K Wearables, have today announced a giveaway of 300 K Rings for NHS staff as a show of
Token Pay™ integrated to enable new suite of innovative payment services that enhance user experience (UX) and lower transaction costs 19 May 2020 – Leading open banking infrastructure provider, Token.io,
Blogs Is your zoom video conference as private as you think? https://blog.fscom.co.uk/is-your-zoom-video-conference-as-private-as-you-think In this blog, fscom’s Simon Whittaker discusses the cybersecurity challenges we may be facing through the use of
London, UK – 17 April, 2020 – Curve, the banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, has appointed Hannah Nixon to advise on the company’s regulatory activities and
A consortium of IT, software and Fintech companies donate medical supplies and money to strengthen the preparedness of the Cyprus medical system to the threats posed by COVID-19. Several
London, UK – 6th April, 2020 – Curve, the banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, has become one of the first companies in Europe
Pannovate, UK’s leading payment and digital banking technology company, has partnered up with Salt Edge, leader in offering open banking and secure customer authentication solutions to help organisations launch competitive
London 9 April 2020: PPS, formerly PrePay Solutions, and subsidiary of Edenred, the everyday companion for people at work, has today announced its partnership with koto, the new credit app
Newport, South Wales – 26th March 2020 – W2, the leading provider of real-time digital solutions to simplify global regulatory compliance for mobile and digital transactions via a single platform
Newport, South Wales – 23rd March 2020 – W2, the leading provider of real-time digital solutions for global regulatory compliance, has announced today its help to regulated industries faced with
Letter of intent signed ARYZE has reached an agreement with a Danish interest organization for NGOs and signed a letter of intent. The organization includes a wide range of member
Todd Latham, Chief Growth Officer, Currencycloud comments on Government’s commitment to enhance coordination between regulators and ensure the UK continues to lead the way on financial services innovation and the
The digital revolution is transforming the payment ecosystem. Non-banking actors enter the landscape in the image of Fintechs and neobanks that are becoming new intermediaries in the value chain of
SMEs are poorly served by banks today, certainly in payment services, foreign exchange and hedging. Form3 is helping SMEs, via their Financial Institution providers gain simple access to global payment
London, UK – 11th February, 2020 – Curve, the Over-The-Top banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app has today announced it
With Spend.com launching in Europe, Contis announces the first use of its innovative new Buffer service. Contis is a leading provider of banking, payment and processing solutions for the future
Control of consumer identity is a battleground banks and credit unions must understand. Big tech giants, the card networks and identity leaders are jockeying for dominance. The resulting innovations will
Wirecard’s fully digital mobile payment platform for use by China’s EasyTransfer EasyTransfer is popular with digital-native Chinese students around the world There are over 1,800,000 Chinese students studying outside of
London, 20th January 2020 – Starting 2020 in the same vein as 2019 finished, Banking Circle continues to achieve success in industry awards. It has been announced as a finalist
22 January 2020 – Madrid, Spain – buguroo, the online fraud prevention specialist for the financial sector, today unveiled further capabilities that make it easier for banks to more accurately
UZE Mobility offers an electric vehicle fleet which can be used for a variety of e-mobility solutions Wirecard is the preferred payment partner for the UZE Mobility marketplace Partnership further
New investment from global heavyweights including Visa, International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group), BNP Paribas, SBI Group and Siam Commercial Bank LONDON 27th January 2020 –
London, 28 January 2020 – PrePay Solutions subsidiary of Edenred, the everyday companion for people at work, today announces its rebrand as PPS. PPS, founder and innovator in prepaid
London, UK – 28th January, 2020 – Curve, the Over-The-Top banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, today brings its customers
The Great British Entrepreneur Awards is delighted to announce a three year partnership with Starling Bank, the UK’s Best British Bank 2019, as they continue to champion and celebrate entrepreneurs
The Eversheds Sutherland Payments team is up for Regulatory Team of the Year 2020 and LexisNexis Knowledge Team of the Year 2020 for its focus on knowledge dissemination in the
Currensea is the first travel money card that uses Open Banking to link directly to the major high street bank accounts. It saves customers up to 85% on their bank
