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Curve launches new crowdfund to bring customers closer to its growth journey

Curve launches new crowdfunding round to enable its 2m+ customers to be part of the super app’s exciting growth journey. Potential investors can now pre-register to receive early access to the campaign ahead of its public launch. New crowdfund follows Curve’s successful £72.5m Series C fundraise. Funds will be used to support product innovation and Curve’s expansion into the US and deeper into Europe

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West Africa’s challenger bank, the Vista Bank Group, selects paytech provider Radar Payments by BPC to drive its digital payment strategy

Vista Bank Group in West Africa has chosen Radar Payments for its processing activities and to drive digital payment adoption in the region. The solution will include SmartVista’s card issuance and lifecycle management, payment switching, ATM and point-of-sales management as well as providing digital channels such as mobile banking and e-wallet; personalised to both retail and corporate clients.

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Gain the Lead: How It All Started

The Wirecard scandal 2020 shook the Fintech community and created a lot of questions for the industry regulators in Germany – thousands of people lost their jobs and client operations all over the world were disrupted.

But as we all know, in the middle of difficulty there is always lies opportunity. So we decided to act – this is a blog article that tells a story of how Gain The Lead came to be.

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Video Marketing: Lessons Learned in Lockdown

In this blog, Blue Train Marketing delve into the transformation of video marketing, its increase in popularity and the pandemics impact. They reveal some tips and tricks on how to improve your video content whilst restrictions are still in place.

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Let’s talk about Strong Customer Authentication: CP21/3

fscom’s Greg James looks at the proposed changes to strong customer authentication (SCA); one of the most contentious regulatory developments introduced by the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Greg breaks down the changes into those that will generate the most conversation and those that are simply explicit confirmations in existing guidance.

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Trust Payments recognised as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in the UK

Trust Payments is proud to announce its recognition as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in several categories in the UK.

The payments group has received several employee-recognition awards, including one of the top 30 Financial Services firms to work for in the UK, as well as regional awards in London and Wales. It also received a 1 Star rating signifying ‘very good’ levels of workplace engagement.

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Mobile: Payments’ New Best Friend

Join us in this insightful webinar, with a range of experts in the mobile payments, cards and risk space, to learn how payments are changing, and how mobile applications can help strengthen authentication and improve your customer experience – all at the same time.

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Tink and Tribe partner for open banking payments

Open banking platform Tink partners with payments technology provider Tribe for open banking payment initiation and account check services.

Blog post below –

https://tink.com/tink-tribe-payments-partnership/?utm_content=165197139&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2735919

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How Okay Can Help with PSD2 RTS SCA Compliance

Compliance, requirements, deadlines, oh my! By now you should have a comprehensive overview of what to be aware of as PSP. As such, it is time to wrap up the topic of SCA compliance. In this article, we cover how Okay uses security evaluations to fine-tune our product as well as how we can help you meet SCA PSD2 RTS compliance standards.

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Understanding PSD2 RTS SCA Compliance

Compliance. A scary term for any payment service provider (PSP) in a world of increasingly stricter regulations and requirements. To make it a little less scary, we are opening the PSD2 RTS Compliance door to extract some key points of interest. Read on for the fundamental requirements PSPs should be aware of if issuing cards or e-money payments and why said requirements are necessary.

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Blocser card launch tells gig workers: “You’re worth it”

Ambitious Danish fintech Blocser and top UK card manufacturer allpay.cards are ready to let ‘Butterfly’ take flight.

allpay.cards are providing their unique end-to-end card manufacturing solution to Blocser who are launching an app, with a payment card, to support the ever-growing number of UK gig economy workers.

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Everything you wanted to know about de-risking but were afraid to ask

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, financial institutions increasingly turned to ‘de-risking’ – exiting relationships and limiting interaction with clients deemed high-risk – as a way to reduce their exposure. Join industry leaders Mitch Trehan, Banking Circle’s Head of Compliance and MLRO, and Philip Doyle, Group Director, Financial Crime, Revolut as they take a deeper dive into the topic. They will explore some key questions:

– How has de-risking impacted the industry?
– Why are institutions de-risking, rather than managing existing risk?
– Has de-risking by traditional banks created a vacuum for new players to fill?
– How is the regulatory landscape shifting?
– What’s next for the payments industry?

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Three key regulations you should know about when launching your payments business in Europe

Launching a payments business in Europe requires every founder to understand their market. That means doing customer research, scoping out competitors, and – perhaps the trickiest of them all – navigating the regulatory environment. In this payment guide, Moorwand breaks down three of the key regulations you need to know about when thinking about launching a business in Europe.

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SFDR Level 2 update

Get to grips on the road ahead with Level 2 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), coming into effect for financial market participants and financial advisors from January 1, 2022.

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The future of blockchain, crypto-assets and smart contracts in European Financial Services

On Thursday 29 April at 1.30pm BST / 2.30pm CEST join Eversheds Sutherland’s international panel as they discuss the future for blockchain, crypto-assets and smart contracts in financial services, including: crypto-asset regulatory regimes and how they differ; custody, security, smart contracts and tokenization innovations; and how the technology is shaping change in process applications and efficiency savings.

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Payment Matters No. 49

Stay up to date on the latest developments in the payments industry from the UK, Europe and beyond, with Eversheds Sutherland’s quarterly bulletin, Payment Matters.

In the latest edition, they discuss: significant developments in the UK’s plans for Open Banking and Open Finance; continued focus on the effectiveness of the revised payment services directive (PSD2); the Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM); newly introduced for payment initiation service provider (PISP) payments, and the recent review published by the Lending Standards Board (LSB); and the success of Instant Payments in the Netherlands, and the drive for eurozone coverage, backed by the European Central Bank.

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Revelock Forms New Advisory Board to Advance Fight Against Online Bank Fraud

Revelock, the pioneer in behavioural biometric-based online fraud prevention (formerly buguroo) has announced the formation of its Advisory Board.

Six prominent industry experts – Monica Pal, Selim Aissi, Janet Rathod, Doug Dangremond, Millicent Tracey and Al Pascual – come together to bolster the company’s ability to proactively protect banks, fintechs and their own customers from ever-evolving fraud.

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Revelock Unveils New Fraud Detection & Response (FDR) Platform For Financial Institutions to Continuously Protect Against Fraud

Revelock, the pioneer in behavioural biometric-based online fraud prevention (formerly buguroo) has launched its new Fraud Detection & Response platform for financial institutions.

The platform uses behavioural biometrics to continuously verify identities, protect web and mobile banking apps from account takeover, malware attacks RATs and phishing.

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buguroo becomes Revelock as it Changes the Game of Online Fraud Prevention

buguroo, a pioneer in behavioral biometric based online fraud prevention, has become Revelock after undergoing a major rebranding process as it enters a new era of online fraud prevention.

Spanish cybersecurity company also unveils the Revelock Fraud Detection & Response (FDR) Platform – updating and enhancing its capabilities to protect against more threats and further reduce the operational costs of fighting fraud – as well as a new Advisory Board made up of industry veterans.

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IIF – Payments Association Global Payments Forum Inaugural Meeting Summary

The inaugural meeting of the International Institute of Finance (IIF) – The Payments Association Global Payments Forum was held on March 16, 2021 as a virtual event. Around 100 people registered for the first meeting from across IIF and Payments Association members and invited guests. The findings from that meeting are reported here.

Annex – Polling results in detail

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SAFENETPAY AND BANKING CIRCLE TAKE THE COMPLEXITY OUT OF CROSS BORDER PAYMENTS

One stop business payment solution provider, Safenetpay, has joined forces with ground-breaking payments specialist, Banking Circle, to further enhance its cross border payment offering. Utilising Banking Circle’s multi-currency accounts, SPayments Association and SWIFT transactions solutions and foreign exchange (FX) capabilities, Safenetpay’s business customers can now access additional currencies, competitive FX rates and quick, reliable transactions within SPayments Association.

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