Visa Europe has announced the launch of the new Visa Europe Digital Enablement Programme, leveraging the power of the Visa network to simplify the implementation of third party mobile wallets.

VocaLink has announced a five year deal with UnionPay International, which will enable UnionPay cardholders to access ATMs in the UK and continental Europe. UnionPay is one of the world’s

WEX Inc. has announced that WEX Australia has updated its existing agreement with Flight Centre Travel Group, one of the world’s largest travel agency groups, to provide virtual credit card

WEX Inc. has extended its existing fuel management program with QuikTrip, a prominent convenience store and gasoline marketer, enabling QuikTrip to continue marketing their co-branded and proprietary commercial card programs

Wirecard and Visa Europe offered contactless wristbands at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The Visa contactless wristband is an exclusive limited edition product, developed for Eurovision 2016 and issued by

Advanced Payment Solutions Ltd (trading as APS financial) has successfully secured a Credit Licence from the Financial Conduct Authority, allowing APS to carry out consumer credit lending (including high cost

Robin Hood Energy, the UK’s first local authority-owned energy supplier, has attracted a significant number of clients since its launch in 2014, partly down to flexibility with payments.  Working with

The solution will allow organisations to send payments in minutes to recipients using only a phone number, without surrendering bank account details or sensitive payment information. This makes it a

Bryan Cave and Polymath Consulting invite you to a complimentary breakfast briefing aimed at understanding the implications of PSD2, with particular focus on the Access to Accounts provisions (XS2A) for

Atom, the UK’s first fully licenced bank designed for digital, has chosen Callcredit Information Group to help with its verification risk and affordability insight to enable Atom to sign-up customers

NFC World, Nets and Carta Worldwide ran a webinar on 12 May 2016 to find out why the Danish payments services provider chose an in-house solution to deliver tokenization that

Credorax has released the results of its first year as a merchant acquiring bank for online game developer and publisher Wargaming. Credorax increased its Wargaming processing volume by 200% over

Wherever money is involved, there must be trust. In financial services, trust must be built on a bedrock of security. This is constantly top of mind for us, so we

F5 Networks has joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ to provide direct, scalable and reliable access to its F5 Silverline® cloud-based DDoS protection solution inside Equinix International Business Exchange™ data centers

Realex Payments has announced a new contract with allpay. The agreement, which will be in place for a minimum of two years, will see allpay’s online payments processed through Realex

Amazon has announced the launch of the Amazon Payments Partner Program, a new global program designed to help ecommerce platform providers and developers extend the trust and familiarity of Amazon Payments

American Express and Newegg, the largest tech-focused e-commerce platform in the US, have announced the launch of a new technology integration that enables US American Express Card Members enrolled in

Bryan Cave London Partner Judith Rinearson and Of Counsel Jane Jee were interviewed by Fintech Finance at Money 20/20 Europe, discussing the legal side of fintech and differences between US and

On the upcoming occasion of Bitcoin block reward halving, Cubits is running a competition, inviting you to guess the time when the halving occurs. Prizes are, of course, in bitcoin.

Currency Cloud is selected as one of the ten hottest fintech startups to watch in a CNBC special report by Tech Transformers. Read more here.

Diners Club International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, and Computop, a leading international payment service provider, have announced an agreement that will

Equinix has announced Equinix Data Hub™, designed to help enterprise customers address today’s ever-growing data management needs. An integral component of an Interconnection Oriented Architecture (IOA™), Data Hub is a bundled solution consisting

FIS is working with The Clearing House to provide the US with a first-of-its-kind, real-time payments system, which will be available to all financial institutions nationwide. The companies are preparing

FSS has announced partnerships with six major Indian banks, providing them with a Unified Payment Interface (UPI) solution, which facilitates easy and seamless person-to-person and person-to-merchant transactions. FSS is among

Global Processing Services and Noor Bank have partnered together for the launch of the Emaar Gift Card. Noor Bank will be the issuing bank as part of the collaboration. Read

MasterCard, Western Union, bKash, one of the world’s leading mobile financial service (MFS) providers and BRAC Bank have launched a new, international remittance receiving service in Bangladesh. The new service enables bKash’s registered customers

Paysafe Group has partnered with Emerchants Ltd to deliver white-labelled pay-out card solutions to gaming operators across Europe.   Using Paysafe’s issuing capabilities, Emerchants Europe will be able to offer

PayPoint Romania has announced a partnership with Restart Energy, a new partner from the energy supplying industry. Restart Energy clients will be able to pay their electricity bills quickly and

Raphaels Bank Payment Services, which has established an enviable reputation for payments innovation, has published a new white paper looking at the challenges and opportunities for fintechs in the payments

Subway’s milestone highlights the more than £500m investment that SUBWAY® franchisees contribute to their local economies, alongside providing over 50,000 jobs in stores across Europe. Its first store in the

Thomson Reuters’ additional data centers in New York, London and Tokyo provide improved pricing, market access and workflow for FX market participants across the globe. Read more here.

TSYS gas announced it will provide the payment providers it services across Europe with TSYS AlertsSM, a solution that helps cardholders monitor their accounts and prevent fraudulent activity with real-time,

ProPay®, a TSYS® company, announced today that it has added yet another payment acceptance option to its solution suite — Samsung Pay, an easy and secure mobile payment service. ProPay merchants who have

W2 Global Data are delighted to announce a collaboration with Global Processing Services to embed KYC/AML functionality across the GPS platform to deliver a true end-to-end solution. Read more here.

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to payment processors and financial institutions, has announced the fifth birthday of TranzAxis, the Open Development Payment Platform.

W2 Global Data (W2) announced today that it has again been oversubscribed in its latest funding round and reached a significant milestone, by exceeding 10 million client screenings per month.

57% most concerned about damage to corporate or brand reputation 68% unaware of EU General Data Protection Regulation 20 April 2016: Cyber risk research carried out by Noddle Protect and

Delegates at the recent Money2020 Europe conference in Copenhagen are under no illusions that the financial sector is rapidly changing. Recently, there’s been an explosion of new technology companies entering

Discover Card leads the credit card industry in customer brand loyalty for the 20th consecutive year, according to an annual study by the independent research firm Brand Keys, a New

Equinix has announced that it will build its fifth International Business Exchange™ data center in Brazil. With the four new International Business Exchanges announced earlier in March and the recent

FSS Toggle has won Technoviti Awards 2016 for technology innovation in financial services. The software product was ranked amongst the top 10 most promising innovations in the BFSI space. Technoviti

For the second year in a row Intercash is happy to announce that is has sponsored the Wrocław Open as it continues its growth in the Polish market. Read more

KPMG Boxwood have launched their latest thought leadership paper: Disruptive Influences: The three key trends transforming the face of retail. Read more here.

Bulgari, MasterCard and WISeKey have announced that MasterCard contactless payment capability will be embedded within the first-ever “intelligent mechanical luxury watch, which Bulgari has fully developed and industrialized for a