Brighton, 3rd May 2019 British technology company McLEAR has today announced an exciting new partnership with The Great Escape Festival TGE  (9th – 11th May, Brighton). For the first time

Lancashire-based Nitecrest Group has produced some of the first wave of biometric payment cards at its Visa and Mastercard secure facility, reports Jane Connolly. The card manufacturer claims it is

Festival goers will now be able to split the cost of their summer plans and pay for Hideout 2019 tickets thanks to Klarna and Stripe The partnership will be available

Leading digital banking and prepaid payments provider moves into leisure and gifting market by powering Virgin Experience Days’ services  8th May 2019, London – PrePay Solutions (PPS), a subsidiary of Edenred,

Visa has completed the acquisition of UK-based Earthport, providing an entree for the card scheme into the $80 trillion account-to-account payments market. Visa made a surprise £198 million bid for

NatWest becomes Tink’s first partner in the UK as it continues to increase its European presence. Tink’s Personal Finance Management and Data Enrichment products will allow the bank to give

Marion King, Director of Payments, NatWest, speaks about her role and the responsibility it entails, including determining payments strategy for a major UK Bank, keeping NatWest’s customers secure, regulation and

Reston, VA and Boston, MA – IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity™, and the 2018 World Champion Boston Red Sox, have teamed up to bring IDEMIA’s IdentoGO® enrollment centers to Red Sox

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity™, announced the launch and immediate availability of RapID X1, a handheld wireless device for biometric fingerprint identification. This new and innovative technology has a FBI

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, is delighted to announce its partnership with Kuwait Finance House (KFH) to offer the first metal payment card in the country. This full-metal-card

Asymmetric cryptography lies at the heart of digital security The asymmetric algorithms (e.g. RSA and ECC) are deemed not to be resistant to cryptanalysis methods that will be achievable with

New research from Valitor reveals retailers are underestimating the importance of after payment experience: Over a third (34 percent) of consumers feel retailers don’t care about them after they’ve made

RegTech startup FrankieFinancial has signed Australian neo banks Xinja and Novatti Group to its financial systems aggregator platform, which provides a single point of access to ID verification, KYC, AML,

Bahrain’s national bank partners with Tarabut Gateway, Bahrain’s first licensed open banking systems provider, to enable customers to access new digital services and aggregate all their accounts from different banks

Checkout.com, the global payment solutions provider, announces today that it is taking funding from outside investors for the first time in its history, having raised $230m in what is Europe’s

BluTV is the world’s number one streaming platform for Turkish content BluTV has more than four million subscribers Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, now supports BluTV,

Modulr, a London-based payments-as-a-service API platform for digital businesses, has raised £14 million in a funding round led by Frog Capital. Existing investors including Blenheim Chalcot joined the round, which

21st May, 2019 – Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain: Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in Bahrain, has officially announced its readiness for open banking services today,

– The pop-up gives shopping a makeover with a fun-filled footprint, exciting new in-store concepts and interactive and celebrity events 22nd May 2019 — Having transformed how consumers see ‘payments’,

Marqeta has raised $260 million in a Series E funding round led by Coatue Management, valuing the open API card issuing and processing platform at nearly $2 billion. Vitruvian Partners,

We are honoured to announce that Cybertonica team is named a finalist in 3 categories for the judging of the European Women Payments Network 2019 Awards, which will be held in Amsterdam on 4th June.

Emerging Payments Association has recently interviewed our Chief Commercial Officer Alan Nagle on how Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to manage fraud and risk. Read more here.

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We are currently observing a rapid digitisation of payment methods with the availability of services on a variety of personal terminals, such as Smartphones and connected objects. This trend is

Barclays has led a $5.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz, the Silicon-Valley startup behind a global, blockchain-based invoice exchange vowing to revolutionise the $9 trillion receivables market. More

Financial utility recognised for innovation in B2B payments and commitment to improving financial inclusion www.bankingcircle.com London, May 2019 – Banking Circle has been awarded the Judges’ Special Award for B2B

Compared to other contact information we tend to keep our email address for the longest period of time. From the very first time we use our email address we are

Project Banking Access will be producing a practical guidance document ‘Guide to Bank Account Access’ that describes the options available to anyone with or wanting a bank account. Informed by

Project Inclusion championed the need to support the nation’s most vulnerable by providing the appropriate education and guidance to transit to inclusion in a report by the BBC. In an

Representatives from the Project Financial Crime team met with HM Treasury to inform the UK government’s Economic Crime plan. Nine member companies from across the Project Financial Crime team shared

The next Project Futures workshop will be held on Wednesday 19th June and will be focused on the impact of new lending and credit services on payment service providers. The

Representatives from Project International Trade met with Invest Lithuania to showcase the activity of the Payments Association and Project International Trade, and to identify opportunities for Payments Association members to

Project Regulator commends the Payment Systems Regulator’s decision to postpone the deadline for implementing Confirmation of Payee. Project Regulator had previously responded to the PSR’s consultation on the general direction

Project Transaction Insights launched a survey on the on authentication and authorisation strategies being adopted by issuers. This research, which will be developed into an upcoming whitepaper, covers areas that

Project Women in PayTech has published a review statement on how the project has created a platform to enable and support gender balance and professional development within the payments industry

Payment innovation will take center stage in Malta in May with the central theme: Payments in the Blockchain Era. QUBE EVENTS is host to the International The 7th Nextgen Payments

This Framework, called FWA – RM6118, will aim to replace the current “Merchant Acquiring Services, Equipment and Payment Gateway Services” Framework Agreement. The scope of the new CCS Payment Acceptance

We’re excited to announce a trial with Post Office that we believe will have a positive impact for many newly arrived persons in the UK – in particular, members of

ECOMMBX has announced its official registration as an Account Information Service Provider (AISP) on the EBA Payment Institutions Register. The milestone marks the first-ever Cyprus Electronic Money Institution to be

ECOMMBX, along with ECOMMPAY; group of Fintech companies, team up with a strong four-member crew: Team Arrow. This sponsorship has won the Cyprus finals and qualified for the F1 in

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