March 22, 2021
Payment initiation is a new type of payment method made possible with open banking. Essentially, it works by letting customers connect to their banks and authorise a payment directly from their accounts. Here’s what that looks like, and what advantages it brings compared to other payment options.
Moneyou saw PSD2 as a key enabler of innovative banking services and planned to exploit all aspects of the new regulations to provide both market-leading functionality and value to their growing user base. Moneyou needed to find a way to build a compliant solution with minimum effort and impact on their systems and identified Konsentus as being the ideal partner to achieve this.
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Fintech and Payments Association member Paynetics discuss digitising loyalty and their latest partnership with promotional campaign leader Benamic to power a new, mobile first corporate card programme for the B2B market.
The recipe for success in the e-commerce business is much the same as any other entrepreneurial endeavor except it comes with many opportunities for growth and leverage that physical businesses don’t have.
Online business may be the future of many markets, and for good reason. From scalability of immediately needed resources to cost-effective innovation and optimization, we have identified five key elements of success for e-commerce business in the modern age:
E-commerce businesses can’t put enough of a premium on online cybersecurity and protection against threats. Not only can malicious actors steal data and commit fraud, but they can also completely undermine a customer’s confidence in your business.
To avoid costly fraud and cyber threats, we’ve found five primary areas of focus that e-commerce businesses need to keep in mind as they move forward in the online market:
As part of a European Union mandate called the Revised Directive on Payment Services, or (PSD2), merchants operating in the EU economic zone must use payment service providers within the European Economic Area that offer what is known as strong customer authentication.
This is also sometimes referred to as the SCA requirement or the PSD2 compliance. In essence, this directive ensures that transactions occurring within the EU’s economic territories make use of multi-factor authentication in order to verify a buyer’s identity.
The promises of the European Union single market, while not full borne out in the reality of the business world, where the same are actually still far from the dream promised when it comes to the virtual single market. What does this mean?
In other words, the European Union might act as a single market when it comes to monetary issues and beyond, but the EU single digital market is hampered and its growth restricted by a myriad of factors including various compliance regimes and the logistical mastery needed to make it all work.
Intuit QuickBooks, the small business platform, today announces it has entered into an agreement with Payments-as-a-Service FinTech, Modulr. Modulr will power the new QuickBooks Business Account, a new digital payment account[1] designed specifically for small businesses.
By providing payments infrastructure and digital payments expertise, the collaboration will allow QuickBooks to combine an industry leading business account with its suite of bookkeeping, accounting and tax tools, building on its vision to be ‘The One Source of Truth for a Small Business’.
Why Netflix, JustEat and Uber made your payments experience a whole lot harder
Aka Why Poor Payment Processes Are Hampering Customer Experience Transformation
As more and more organizations have gone digital, there has been a parallel proliferation of cyberattacks that attempt to damage, disrupt or gain unauthorized access to the computer systems of banks and other financial institutions.
So while banks and payment providers are looking for ways to streamline the onboarding process, they must ensure that they build in the necessary safeguards to protect their ecosystems, reputation and accounts owners.
New data from Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, reveals that new account fraud based on ID verification declined 23.2% worldwide YOY in 2020, compared to 2019 results. At the same time, selfie-based fraud rates were five times higher than ID-based fraud.
Moorwand, the payments solution provider which aims to transform compliance into an enabler of innovation, has launched ‘Dear Luc’, a new payments agony uncle column with Fintech Futures.
The mobility industry needs a game-changer now more than ever and a great place to start would be to take online payments on your website.
Vacuumlabs has announced a global partnership with Thought Machine following the two firms’ successful cooperation in Asia.
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 | LONDON, UK | BY JAMES THORPE Lloyds Bank customers can now pay their credit card bills via their mobile app, leveraging
FEBRUARY 4, 2021 | LONDON NatWest Group to switch all Debit portfolios to Mastercard Mastercard and NatWest Group today announced an expansion of their payments
From currency notes to cheques and then banking cards to completely virtual transactions— the payments industry has come a long way in the last 100 years. The progression in the payment industry has also fuelled growth across the industrial spectrum.
SMB market in the US has been neglected for a long and now there is a lot of space to serve it right. Find out how!
[Webinar] Attend our webinar with The Paypers to learn how merchants and the wider payments ecosystem are prioritising 2021 resources towards building or enhancing risk models. Tuesday, March 30, 3:00 PM GMT
Fulham Football Club is delighted to welcome Sokin as an Official Partner for the next three seasons, until the end of the 2022-2023 campaign.
Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transactional services, is proud to announce that the company is the world’s first payments player to achieve Mastercard Enhanced Contactless (Ecos) certification released in the end of January, on its new contactless standard for POS device through Ingenico, a Worldline brand since October 2020.
Fintech and trusted payments enabler Paynetics has partnered with Benamic, the global leader in promotional fulfilment, to develop its mobile first, digital corporate card programme.
3 reasons why you should consider offering credit to consumers
Open banking payments are new, but where this payment option is offered to consumers, adoption is skyrocketing. TrueLayer CEO & Co-Founder, Francesco Simoneschi, shares some data points which challenge the myth that open banking payments are not ready to go mainstream.
When building a new bank, is it advantageous to be already part of a much bigger established big bank, or might that actually hamper your progress?
How does SMB market look like in the US? Learn not only about this in our latest episode with Anthony Strike from SteadiPay!
Vacuumlabs, the global provider of full-stack fintech solutions, and strategic management consultants Manifesto Growth Architects recently hosted a market-and delivery-focused virtual event, Banking 2021, that brought together key industry players to speak to critical challenges across the banking industry’s new competitive landscape. What are the 5 key takeaways?
Are high street banks effectively taking opportunity of their customer base and provide them sufficient services such as investments, trading or saving?
How to provide 30 million SMBs access to sophisticated financial products, and drive innovation? That’s the question SteadiPay asked, as it finds ways to bring modern Fintech offerings to this underserved market.
America’s first dedicated consumer privacy watchdog is beginning to take shape, aiming to replace the “two strikes you’re out” framework with a “speeding ticket” one. The new enforcement model brings a risk of higher administrative fines and less chance to escape liability but businesses receive guidance and still have time to become compliant.
Holders of Estonia’s controversial cryptocurrency licences are being widely used by online investment scams to accept payments from victims, an investigation by VIXIO has found.
Since the 2008 financial crash, the rise in technology companies looking to help us make better decisions in our finances, using data and sometimes easier to navigate apps than our traditional banks, has created a host of so-called FinTechs emerging into the market.
Which of these FinTechs could help you?
Payments Association member Ozone API are powering the launch of TecBan’s open finance platform in Brazil.
With a full open finance regulation being implemented in Brazil in 2021, the market could soon eclipse other open banking markets around the world due to it’s scale and the breadth of the regulation.
– Introduction
– Evolution of Ransomware
– Beyond Windows
– Financial and Banking Sector
– Vulnerabilities and Malware
– Conclusions
– The Now: Rise of digital banking to cause further online banking fraud
– The New: Increase in new account fraud
– How can we stop these types of attacks as we enter 2021?
– Conclusion
The payments platform continues its successful start to 2021 with landmark announcement that sees it establish its role as a pivotal player in the cross-border payments space
If your goal is to service the largest percentage of market users, respect must be given across all accessibility levels. But what is a reliable solution for non-smartphone users? In this post, we review our remote dial option as a reliable PSD2 SCA fallback.
A new Visa debit card from European neobroker Bitpanda launched this week. Combining Contis’ unique “zero-balance” Buffer technology with Bitpanda’s European-wide, multi-service platform has created one of the most powerful multi-asset propositions available – the Bitpanda Card.
Join Bottomline Technologies, Regions Bank, EBA Clearing, Lipis Advisors & Bobsguide as we will take a closer look at global payment trends, the real-time payment solutions around the world and the use cases of real-time payments.
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Time: 03:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time
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PFS has been fully integrated into EML.
Bottomline was recognized as a winner in the Contact Center of the Year category for technology industries.
Bottomline and Strategic Treasurer release the results of the 2021 Treasury Fraud & Controls Survey. This is the 6th annual survey between the long-time collaborators, whose research partnership also includes the annual B2B Payments Survey.
Banking Circle, the cross border payments expert, has identified an issue affecting some financial institutions handling cross border transactions from the UK to the EU. It seems Brexit has caused a number of EU banks to increase their fees for receipt of SPayments Association local payments in EUR from GB IBANs.
allpay is today delighted to announce the launch of degradable swipecards, the next step in allpay’s green strategy.
Swipecards were a core innovation for allpay over 25 years ago, allowing individuals to pay their bills at outlets such as Post Office and PayPoint. Fast forward to today and the innovation continues with degradable cards with no deterioration to quality.
These will be available to all clients by spring 2021.
We have spoken a lot about strong customer authentication (SCA) over the past year. However, the regulation has technically been in effect since mid-September of 2019. Now well into 2021, it is time for all European countries to fully enforce the updated SCA regulations. Let’s take a look at some of the deadlines.
Close to a quarter of a million people around Ireland received a Perx Reward from their boss while working from home last year.
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