PhocusWire Interview with ConnexPay’s Anant Patel
Learn how to increase efficiencies and maximize profit in travel payments in this interview with Anant Patel, President of International Markets at ConnexPay.
August 11, 2022
Learn how to increase efficiencies and maximize profit in travel payments in this interview with Anant Patel, President of International Markets at ConnexPay.
– Latest move is part of Planet’s high growth strategy that combines software and payments to create connected commerce solutions
– With this partnership Avantio customers will benefit from new services and capabilities that will improve the guest experience and make them more competitive
– Acquisition reflects huge potential of the $73.9bn vacation rental market
DIGIDOE, the UK-based fintech start-up which aims to revolutionise the world’s payments infrastructure, is expanding into the Middle East with the appointment of a leading figure in the region to lead its operations in Qatar.
The London-based company is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority as an electronic money institution and last month was awarded ISO27001 Certification – recognised worldwide as confirmation of information security best practice.
– Planet selected by Lux Island Resorts Ltd as its payments and software partner for eight properties across Mauritius, the Maldives and Réunion
– Pay by Link and use of Sabre SynXis delivers a more enjoyable booking, reservation and payments experience for guests
– Planet’s deep hospitality sector expertise and local customer support capability a key factor in being appointed
Post-pandemic, our lifestyle is closer to smartphones than ever. Regardless of day or night, smartphones are used in various moments of life. That’s why companies with payment products are putting a lot of time and effort into improving the mobile payment experience. One of the best ways to make the payment experience for cardholders easy and simple is to integrate with popular digital wallets.
London-based Unlimint is adding one of Mexico’s largest electronic payment platforms CoDi to its Alternative Payment Methods portfolio to allow European and UK companies to easily expand into the region
Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) pledges to replace all virgin plastic in its payment card products by 2030 at the latest to further support consumers and banks to fulfil their own sustainability aspirations. Being the first in the payment industry to make such a commitment, G+D expects the industry to follow suit.
Feedzai, the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, has been ranked among the top vendors in anti-money laundering (AML) in a Forrester report released today, “The Forrester WaveTM: Anti-Money-Laundering Solutions, Q3 2022”.
Not that long ago, over half of EPI’s member banks opted out, forcing the remaining members to give up on their efforts to rival Visa and Mastercard dominance in the European market. Local payments expert Frank Breuss argues this may turn out in Europe’s favor, enabling to fill in foundational gaps in the payments industry.
Fintech regulation in Europe shows no signs of slowing. So what are the main challenges and frameworks fintechs should be aware of to ensure their future success.
A webinar with Philip Creed, fscom’s Director and Head of Financial Crime was recently held, to help firms understand and respond to this development – and this blog captures some of the highlights. We will unpick the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) approach to Skilled Person reports, explain why your firm might be reviewed, and advise how best to approach one – or better yet, to avoid it happening in the first place.
Over the last six months, many of our payment and e-money institution clients have approached us about their complaints handling process. The drivers are a combination of direct requests for oversight evidence from the FCA and the linkage with internal work to meet the vulnerable customer and consumer duty expectations.
fscom have noted some areas of confusion or weaknesses that Dane Pedro will share with you in this blog.
• The cooperation between Netcetera and Global Payments Europe is accelerating the digital commerce growth of the Czech market
• Fully functional pilot operation of Click to Pay will empower millions of online shoppers across Europe with control over their data and secure their privacy
• It is the first white-label, scheme-independent solution and is now open for all innovative merchants to improve their customer experience
We offer more opportunities, connecting to more partners across more geographies, more freedom to offer more ways to pay and get paid, and more value with an agile network in real time to turbo charge customer growth.
Money movement means possibilities, with new, more and faster ways to pay and get paid than ever before.
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Watch the FIS Money Movement video, and enter a new realm of possibilities click here: https://www.fisglobal.com/en/market-movers/money-movement
Read Blue Train Marketing’s latest blog to learn about the art and the science that is fintech marketing.
In the past decade, we have seen an exciting shift in the finance industry, with innovative technology-based thinking now being more prominent than ever before.
One of the new technologies is serverless FinTech, which enables businesses to add more offerings to their portfolios and simplify daily operations.
This article summarises some of the key benefits of serverless FinTech that you should know about.
Have a look at our on-demand webinar with Bottomline experts & Adrian Jolly Consulting on the SWIFT Customer Security Programme (CSP).
Benefit from a real-time benchmarking comparison to your Banking & FI peers. Take this quick 8-minute survey over 17 easy questions to find out instantly!
Join us on the 8th September with innovators from Osper, Nicky and Gimi at our latest API Chronicles live panel discussion – covering money management technology for young people and hosted by Liz Lumley.
Register here: https://www.marqeta.com/uk/api-chronicles-primary-cardholders
Chargebacks911, the leading dispute technology specialist that powers chargeback remediation for the largest global eCommerce businesses as well as the world’s financial institutions, celebrates being able to more intelligently automate the chargeback dispute process for merchants who use more than one language through the use of its intelligent language translation service. This milestone puts Chargebacks911 at the forefront of two of the most consequential developments for merchants today: combating the rise of fraud and effectively utilizing the power of Machine Learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Buy Now, Pay Later is a rapidly growing trend in a number of market sectors, including retail, entertainment and travel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, use of the payment scheme increased fourfold in the UK, to the tune of £2.7 billion in transactions.
In this article, I’ll give a brief overview of how BNPL works and the industries where it’s most prevalent, before discussing the recent regulatory changes that have been enacted and what they mean for the future of this popular payment method.
The digitalisation of global payment services means merchants now have access to customer data. Payment data that can be attained through global payment service providers is vital in driving new business for merchants and ultimately accelerating growth…
Today, The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its finalised rules on the new consumer duty, which aims to “fundamentally improve how firms serve consumers”.
Companies across the payments sector have 12 months to implement the Financial Conduct Authority’s new consumer duty rules that intend to improve how firms serve consumers.
Recent improvements in payment technology have led to breakthroughs in cross-border payments, where businesses can expand into new, international markets.
One of these breakthrough technologies is virtual IBANs, which are fast becoming an integral part of embedded finance. But what they are, and how they can benefit your business?
BCB Group has appointed Noah Sharp as Deputy CEO, who will share responsibility with the CEO for the corporate scaling strategy across geographies, client segments, products and licensing.
We recently held a webinar on this topic with fscom experts Nick Gumbley (Associate Director) and Will Finn (Senior Manager). In this blog, we summarise their advice on what companies need to know about regulations on customer data, and how they can set up a framework to meet these challenges head on.
Plenty of changes are afoot for the Irish consumer credit markets, following the enactment of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2022 (the “Act”). The Act extends the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI’s) consumer protection framework to a broader range of firms and consumer credit activities, with the aim of ensuring that Irish consumers receive the same protections required of other financial service providers.
The Act came into force on 16 May 2022 and those entities caught by the new legislation should by now have begun preliminary analysis of the impact of those changes to their business models. For authorised entities, this includes an assessment on their regulatory risk profile.
Chargebacks911, the leading dispute specialist that powers chargeback remediation for the largest global eCommerce businesses, today releases its third annual Chargeback Field Report. The report details a real-world look at the health and status of chargeback management in the card-not-present (CNP) space.
Fintech innovators are using digital technology to empower children to earn and spend money under parental supervision. One such innovator is Osper, the ‘mobile app and prepaid debit card that turns pocket money into life lessons.’ But this exciting business is taking its managed money concept beyond youngsters to support use cases across different demographics. Marqeta caught up with Ester Piubeni, Osper’s Head of Operations, to learn about the business’ journey so far and what the future holds.
PSD3 – the next instalment of the Payment Service Directive
International payment service provider and direct bank card acquirer, ECOMMPAY, has announced the launch of its global payout product which is a one-stop solution for any business dealing with international payments.
Merchants report increase in chargebacks but little success in combatting them, according to the 2022 Chargebacks911 Field Report
The 2022 Key Players in the EU Payments Landscape report by The Payments Association EU (PA EU) and The Paypers, commissioned by Deloitte, offers an
ECOMMBX receives the prestigious Ιnvest Cyprus International Investment Award
PSD2 is the main piece of European Union legislation governing payment services, and it is being reviewed. As part of the review, the European Commission requested advice from the European Banking Authority, which was issued on 23 June 2022. This Sidley Update considers that advice and what it means for PSD3.
https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2022/07/psd3-what-to-expect-based-on-the-european-banking-authority-opinion
FLEETCOR has been credited with a Gold Award in the Workplace Wellbeing Index awards by Mind, the mental health charity. The Gold Award is given to employers who have successfully embedded mental health into their policies and practices and demonstrate a long-term and in-depth commitment to staff mental health.
Griffin – the UK-based Banking as a Service provider – has secured an additional £12.5 million ($15.5 million) in funding in its quest to become the bank fintechs can build on. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from existing investor EQT Ventures and fintech leaders from Plaid, Wise, Liberis, and Worldpay, among others.
Griffin is building a full-stack vertically integrated BaaS platform, powered by modern user-friendly technology. The company has raised $27 million of funding to date and recently submitted its application to become an authorised bank to the UK regulators. This new round of investment will be used to grow the leadership and operational teams and continue the build of the core banking platform.
www.griffin.sh
Carta Worldwide is hiring a new Business Development Manager for our European sales team in London.
Fintech Rewired is now live! It’s a brand new interview series with industry leaders in the Fintech space.
But with one key difference: every interview is carried out over a few games of Shuffleboard. Watch episode 1 with Alana Parsons, COO of Caxton, here.
DECTA, a global payment processing company, provider of full-cycle digital payment services, today announced that it has become a Visa Ready certified partner under the Fintech Enablement program.
Chargebacks911, the leading dispute technology specialist that powers chargeback remediation for the largest global eCommerce businesses and financial institutions, today announces that it has achieved the milestone of 1,000 integrated data connections and ingestible file types though its highly automated plug-in-and play platform.
Today’s merchants have faced an uptick in fraudulent chargeback claims over the last couple of years, with profits reducing by as much as 25% due to ‘Friendly Fraud’. With over 1,000 plug-in connections, Chargebacks911’s automated platform provides a scalable method for merchants to exchange missing information that banks require to identify invalid chargeback claims and thwart the growth of this negative trend.
Leading online payments platform, Payset, is utilising bank accounts from Banking Circle to offer fast, low-cost global payments. Providing customers with multi-currency accounts, pre-paid cards and currency exchange services, Payset helps businesses hold, exchange and move money around the world quickly, effortlessly, and affordably. Working with tech-led Payments Bank, Banking Circle, Payset aims to bring financial services up to speed with modern business by eliminating the expenses, delays, and red tape associated with moving money between currencies or across borders.
Despite the fact that cryptocurrency payments are soaring in popularity, the truth is that most regular people still don’t understand how crypto and digital wallets work, or are wary about using the technology for making purchases — a fact that’s reinforced by bank card payments still accounting for 80% of aviation service transactions.
Open Banking, which was properly introduced in 2018, has seen a slow adoption in the wider finance industry. Where payment methods like Buy Now Pay Later and digital wallets have swept through the market, open banking remains less widely understood or used – in fact, ECOMMPAY’s 2021 research found that only 14% of UK consumers completely understood it.
Customers, however, are already using open banking without even realising that they are. This revelation comes as no surprise to those familiar with the technology, as it is so very efficient and easy to use. But the fact customers do not fully understand it, means some further education is still required.
The process of buying and selling goods and services has evolved significantly in the last decade or so, particularly with the growth of the internet. This has led to what we know as e-commerce, the main avenue for consumers to buy products, transmit data and transfer funds online. This evolution will only continue with greater technological advances and IT continuing to strengthen links between different aspects of financial markets. But what are IT’s current strengths and, although it is difficult to predict, how it is set to potentially transform e-commerce in the next decade?
There are a lot of new terms floating around in the world of FinTech and embedded finance, not least no-code and low-code, as more businesses start to move away from the traditional fully coded route to offering bespoke financial services.
This article demystifies everything you need to know about the similarities, differences, and which approach you should opt for to create new revenue streams and better serve your customers.
London-based fintech startup DigiDoe, has expanded into the Middle East. The UK-based business has appointed a Head of Operations in Doha to lead its operations in Qatar. It comes as DigiDoe puts the world’s central and commercial banks firmly in its sights, having received crucial international security certification for its innovative proprietary anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud prevention solution.
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