PRESS RELEASE A top fintech has ‘done the double’ at the Payments Association Awards securing two nominations in the same category for a charity that began at home and another
Ben Agnew brings a wealth of B2B events experience to lead the team at the UK’s premier payments industry member body London, UK. 1st September, 2020. The The Payments Association
PRESS RELEASE COPENHAGEN, 27 August 2020 – Coinify, Sygnum Bank and Galaxus announce the world’s first e-commerce transaction using a bank-issued stablecoin. The Sygnum Digital Swiss Franc (DCHF), pegged 1:1
FORM3 is delighted to announce it has raised $33 million in a strategic investment round with new investors Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society and VC 83NORTH.
Following our Series B funding round in November 2018, Form3 has trebled in size and increased its annual recurring revenue by 160%.
The funding will strengthen Form3’s market-leading cloud-native payment technology, building significant functional enhancements, and accelerating our global expansion plans in existing and new markets.
Michael Mueller, Chief Executive Officer at Form3 said, “Our latest equity round is a testament to our growth and maturity in delivering highly secure, best in class technology for major financial institutions globally.”
We are pleased to announce that we are now 1 of 7 non-banks to have secured an e-money license from the Dutch Central Bank.
Mike Laven says of the recent news, “Covid-19 has accelerated the rush towards digital payments and Europe represents a tremendous opportunity for Currencycloud. The Netherlands possesses the perfect blend of factors to support our expansion in the EU…”
Last year the pilot programme for our newest offering, Currencycloud Spark went live.
Over 30 Fintechs around the world, including Starling Bank, Remitr and TranSwap , signed up to benefit from the functionality, which gives businesses and their customers – the ability to receive, store funds and make payments in more than 30+ different currencies, almost anywhere in the world.
We’re pleased to now announce the wider rollout of Currencycloud Spark, our multi-currency wallet infrastructure!
Trust Payments, the global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies today announced it has acquired Mobilize Systems, a UK based engagement and mobile loyalty platform serving the retail and hospitality sectors.
Mobilize provides seamless, data-rich services to merchants looking to capture and expand customer engagement and loyalty programmes, primarily in the mobile space. The acquisition will enable Trust Payments to combine behavioral analytics with transactional data to offer enhanced product journeys for customers, improved payment options, and better insight for businesses.
Payments Giant EML is Creating a Better Tomorrow Through its Commitment to Reducing the Use of Plastic Cards in the Communities it Serves Worldwide by 50%.
xpate, a fintech services platform for both retail and business customers, launches xPP [xpate Partnership Program] to emphasize its major commitment to grow through and with its partners. xPP makes it fast and simple to refer businesses that will get access to a global payments platform along with the opportunity to expand their operations with value added services, local payment and wire transfer options across the globe.
Konsentus partners with Open Vector
Press release announcing Konsentus partnering with Open Banking API provider Ozone
Privat3Money (P3) a UK E-Money Institution who offers global citizens and corporates an intuitive digital platform to manage their financial needs, has selected Vilnius (Lithuania) based FintechLab to power its core payments platform and mobile app.
As brick-and-mortar firms come under increasing market pressure, eCommerce business models are starting to appeal to a larger segment of the global population and it is so for solid reasons. For one, they’re not only more nimble and agile firms when it comes to meeting customer demands and adapting to the market but also they are the first to take advantage of the latest innovations in B2B eCommerce solutions like virtual IBANs.
Trust Payments, the global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies has announced it has partnered with SPOKO (previously known as Pay Ukraine) to enable it to offer its money transfer service to customers in Poland. The collaboration provides a powerful, convenient multi-currency payment solution targeted toward SPOKO’s target customer base of immigrants in Poland, which has recently passed the 100,000-user milestone.
Banking Circle, the innovative financial infrastructure provider, has enhanced the tools available to Payments businesses for their marketplace customers. Payments businesses can now offer their marketplace sellers virtual IBANs to collect the proceeds of their online Amazon store in the United States.
Banking Circle, provider of financial infrastructure for Payments businesses and Banks, has won another award for its innovative SME lending solutions.
Banking Circle, the ground-breaking financial infrastructure provider, has added Polish Zloty (PLN) to its local currency payout capabilities. Payments businesses working with Banking Circle can now provide their merchant customers with same day settlement for payments to Poland in Polish Zloty via the local payment network, eliminating the need to use the SWIFT network and, therefore, ensuring the end party receives the full amount.
GPS technology powers sync.’s card payments, enabling it to launch a smart payment service app that allows users to consolidate their financial accounts in one place.
The Payments Association annual ceremony honours innovation in the financial sector London, United Kingdom. 06th August 2020: The The Payments Association, which celebrates collaboration and innovation across the emerging payments
Banking Circle, the financial infrastructure provider to Payments businesses and Banks has secured 5 finalist slots in the 2020 Payments Association Awards. Designed to celebrate innovation, collaboration and emerging payments, the Payments Association Awards recognise companies that have made significant advances in how businesses and individuals pay.
As the collapse of the Wirecard empire is making us all too aware, relying upon one banking provider for your business is not only a disaster waiting to happen but also it could be terminal for your business. The fintech company which is one of the biggest European payment processors and financial service providers is now in the spotlight.
We will now analyze the facts behind why is that so and what are the potential market consequences.
Leading payments provider, Contis, has applied for two grants from the RBS & BCR Alternative Remedies Package, totalling £35 million.
The funding will be used to drive fintech innovation in the UK by developing an off the shelf, B2B electronic and card payment technology platform for SMEs. With Contis’ powerful tech stack and regulated status, this will empower hundreds of fintechs to support the SME market with groundbreaking technologies, payments and lending capabilities.
M2M Group deploys the national payment switch of Mauritius
W2, the leading provider of real-time digital solutions for global regulatory compliance, announced today that it has joined forces with Lanistar, to help power its new hassle-free banking alternative. The company will use polymorphic technology to provide a customer-focused alternative to traditional banking services when it launches in Winter 2020.
Recent trends in the online skill games industry bode well for its future and that’s not just because of the wider acceptance of online gaming.
The growth in the skill games business can primarily be attributed to virtual IBAN advancements and the ease with which international transactions take place. Not to mention last the recent shift en masse to online entertainment because of the novel coronavirus.
What are the Top 2020 Trends? B2B eCommerce is projected to be the area of the largest eCommerce growth from 2020 to 2025. In 2020 the global revenue in B2B eCommerce is anticipated to be two times bigger than the one from B2C sales.
COVID-19 has a far-reaching effect on the global economy. It’s a fact. Companies are struggling to understand the full impact on businesses and how best to react to the new reality. ECommerce is one of the few areas currently showing signs of growth despite the overall economic breakdown.
In light of recent developments, we now have more questions than ever about the impact Brexit will have on businesses in terms of future development, certainty, and stability.
It may become harder to do business with long-standing partners, both for UK and EU businesses, with new barriers to trade and finance looking set to come into place.
Starling Bank is the only challenger bank to record more app downloads in May than the year before, thanks to a tv ad starring a shed and lockdown loans for
60 per cent growth in the number of Barclaycard customers who have gradually returned to trading and taking payments last week, compared to the first full week of April 8
LONDON, England – 7th July 2020: OpenPayd, the API-led Banking-as-a-Service provider, today unveils its banking and payments solution for digital currency businesses. The proposition provides cryptocurrency businesses with access to
European spend management market leader brings card issuance and settlements in-house July 8 2020, London: Spend management platform Soldo today announces that it has extended its partnership with Mastercard®, to
Compass Plus has announced that it has teamed up with AWS to utilise the latest advancements of cloud-based deployment. The vendor of payments software and payments processing services has been
The novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, in November of last year has since ignited a global pandemic that could permanently change the way business is conducted.
Not only that but, as with every economic crisis, there will be definitive winners from the aftermath of the economic fallout and these companies will help shape the future of e-Commerce in the USA/EU.
I’m pleased to announce the launch of Fi911 – a new brand from leading dispute technology specialist, Chargebacks911, built in collaboration with some of the world’s largest financial institutions (FIs) and payments processors to remove legacy redundancies.
Differing from its merchant platform, Fi911 specifically supports FIs with automated chargeback management and related activities. So, FIs will benefit from:
• Faster chargeback dispute resolutions
• AI-driven merchant onboarding, post-transaction monitoring, lifecycle management and reconciliation services
• Customizable tools catered to customers’ needs which can be reconfigured in real-time
• The ability to manage and engage their entire ecosystem
• Cost savings
• Increased insight
• Resolved chargeback pain-points
By enabling acquirers with more intelligent tools, more data connections, and more flexibility, Fi911 hopes for stronger decision-making and more proactive action to be taken to stop the growth of chargebacks.
Trust Payments Ltd, the global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies has today announced double digit growth in its 2019 statutory accounts.
While many analysts could never have anticipated the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic on the world economy, there is a general consensus about what firms can do now and moving forward to build resilience against future “black swan” events such as the one currently roiling world markets.
When it comes to the future of banking and finance, forward-thinking firms are exploring the benefits of digital innovations, such as virtual IBANs and digital banking services.
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.
Judopay, a leading mobile-first payments provider, today announced that it has partnered with Thyngs, the physical-digital marketing specialist, to offer touch-free cashless payment solutions to businesses across the hospitality sector that are reopening from 4th July. At the same time, the partnership will offer charities another way of accepting cash-free donations, both during and after the pandemic.
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.
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.
Payments Association publishes new guidance on digital identification and authentication to help tackle financial crime New report focuses on how the payments industry can keep safe from financial threats London,
Payments Association publishes collaborative report to debate payments regulation ahead of PSD3 London, United Kingdom – 12th March 2020 – The The Payments Association, which celebrates collaboration and innovation within
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