Press Releases

The Payments Association, the leading London-based professional association of payment players, which brings together more than 150 operators from all areas of the payment value chain, is expanding its European

London, United Kingdom – 14th January 2020 – The The Payments Association, which celebrates collaboration and innovation within new and existing finance companies, has published a first of its kind

Three experienced additions join powerful force for change in the rapidly expanding emerging payments industry London, United Kingdom – 04th December 2019 – The Emerging Payment Awards (Payments Association), a

London, UK. 13th November 2019: New research from The Payments Association reveals that ‘realtime’ payments are growing rapidly in the UK, signifying potential for business payments for banks and fintechs.

London, UK. 29 August 2019: The Payments Association has today published original research on the social and structural barriers that hinder progress in the fight for gender equality in the

London, United Kingdom – The The Payments Association has published a report on Issuer Declines and the impact of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) on the payments experience which found that

The Bank of England has taken onboard several recommendations from the The Payments Association as part of BoE’s Future of Finance project, led by Senior Advisor Huw van Steenis.  

Former Lloyds Banking Group director takes up senior management role at the industry cooperative London, 13 November 2018 – Cate Kemp will join SWIFT as its Head of UK, Ireland

eComCharge, the developer of the white label payment gateway, has announced a release of a new payment widget for the payment service providers, with 3-D Secure verification inside the widget.

London, 14th November 2018 – Underlining the industry take-up it has achieved, ground-breaking financial utility, Banking Circle, has been nominated for three Card & Payments Awards. Banking Circle Virtual IBAN

New award-nominated interface technology from Cashplus allows thousands of simultaneous, automated payments, dramatically reducing transaction costs UK fintech disrupter Cashplus is empowering SME customers with the release of a new,

Growth in high street spending expected to rise from 2.6% to 3.8% YoY Average spend on gifts will be £336.34* per person Brits are a nation of Bargain Boasters, with

Alternative, short term banking solution, Suits Me, has reinforced its partnership with Contis, the award-winning banking, payments and processing solution provider to enhance accessibility and functionality for its members. The

Direct access to the Eurosystem’s TIPS with SWIFTNet Instant offers customers the ability to execute instant payments anywhere within the Single Euro Payments Area Brussels, 30 November 2018 – SWIFT

Juniper Research Future Digital Awards recognise financial utility for innovative banking solution www.bankingcircle.com London, 3rd December 2018 – Ground-breaking financial utility, Banking Circle, has added another award to its cabinet

7th December, 2018 – Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io Limited, today announces a partnership with Almoayed Technologies, the MENA region’s leading technology infrastructure development company, to accelerate open banking

Payment leaders from, FLEETCOR, NatWest, Starling Bank and Token are elected to join the The Payments Association Advisory Board. London, UK. December 2019. To usher in the new year, the

2019 EWPN Annual Conference to take place at Money20/20 Europe in support of ‘Rise Up’ gender diversity programme ewpn.eu 16 October 2018 – Demonstrating its sustained commitment to promoting diversity

London: 08th October 2018 – Contis, the award-winning banking and payments solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Andy Patton as its new Group Chief Commercial Officer. Contis offers an

Deal gives Contis access to Paze’s full suite of technology, including an AI-powered consumer lending system Acquisition follows Contis’ recent partnership with Visa to launch the FinTech fast-track programme London,

Lacuna’s Senior Partner, who recently joined from Societe Generale where he has represented Societe Generale on the Board of both CHAPS & SWIFT UK Limited, will attend his 25th Sibos,

www.bankingcircle.com London, September 2018 – Alibaba Group has signed up with Banking Circle, the global scale financial utility, to utilise Banking Circle’s ground-breaking infrastructure and global network to facilitate its

Banking Technology Awards recognise value of unique banking solution www.bankingcircle.com London, October 2018 – Banking Circle Virtual IBAN, the multi-award-winning bank account solution from Banking Circle, has been shortlisted for

Konsentus, a RegTech solutions business, which facilitates checking the identity and regulatory status of Third-Party Providers (TPP), enabling Financial Institutions (FIs) to be PSD2 open banking compliant, is pleased to

Headcount, the payment processing industry’s leading recruiter for over 15 years, has been acquired by global iGaming recruitment agency Pentasia. Demand for recruitment solutions is continuing to grow significantly in

Global financial utility named as Best Back Office Innovation, underlining ground-breaking role for banks and other PayTech businesses www.bankingcircle.com London, 11th October 2018 – Banking Circle, the ground-breaking financial utility,

Increased adoption of contactless technology demonstrates British consumers’ enthusiasm to embrace new technologies LONDON – September 17, 2018 – Contactless technology continues to proliferate as the most widely adopted form

The annual guide to the most influential, innovative, and powerful figures in the Fintech industry has recently parented with award-winning high street bank, Metro Bank. London 15th October 2018 – Global

Cooperative expedites standardisation to foster financial industry API adoption Brussels, 16 October 2018 SWIFT has today published a blueprint for common API standards following collaboration with European banking standards bodies,

SWIFT white paper examines the drivers of payments transformation in Europe and looks at the challenges and opportunities for financial institutions Brussels, 17 October 2018 SWIFT today releases a new

  The ‘Monese Business’ account can be set-up in five minutes and comes bundled with personal banking in one simple-to-use app Now available to UK registered businesses in 11 languages

NatWest has become the first bank to go live on Fusion LenderComm, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the syndicated loan market developed by a consortium of banks in

RegTech solution provider Konsentus has gone live with its cloud-based PSD2 open banking production service, which helps Financial Institutions (FIs) to comply with PSD2 open banking by facilitating Identity &

5.1 million switches since launch of Current Account Switch Service Switching levels between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2018 up 5 per cent on previous 12 months Participant movement

Nottingham, U.K – 17 January 2018 – Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), a leading commercial bank in Vietnam, has announced the successful migration of its

Banking and cloud computing veterans join as non-exec directors Sights set on driving adoption of Fortytwo Data’s machine learning and Big Data solutions at institutions around the world London, 19

ScaleUp Membership of the Payments Association, with Banking Circle, provides subsidised membership and valuable additional benefits to ambitious FinTechs www.bankingcircle.com London, July 2018 – Eight months since the launch of