
Konsentus – PSD2 open banking: the ticking time bomb for EU Financial Institutions
The clock is ticking. The overall idea behind PSD2 open banking is not new. Yodlee and others have for a while aggregated accounts, and they have done this through a

The clock is ticking. The overall idea behind PSD2 open banking is not new. Yodlee and others have for a while aggregated accounts, and they have done this through a
The alliance will allow Countingup to offer combined accounting and banking services for small businesses 16th April 2018, London UK: PrePay Solutions (PPS), Europe’s leading prepaid and digital banking services

Flow Prepaid Mastercard© and Echo Prepaid Mastercard© have been developed with Mastercard©, in collaboration with Global Processing Services (GPS), an industry-leading issuer processor Both Flow Prepaid, the consumer payment card,

Anti-money laundering (AML) and Big Data specialist Fortytwo Data has appointed machine learning expert Luca Primerano as Chief AI Officer. The firm, based in the City of London, is the only company

Exclusive research commissioned by Banking Circle reveals how financial institutions are stepping up to the challenges ahead www.bankingcircle.com London, 24th April 2018 – Saxo Payments Banking Circle, the global scale

Nine hires focus on further improving customer service and project delivery across key payment and retail card sectors 24 April 2018 – One year on from the expansion of its

Consumers can use their SWAPX card account to load funds in EUR and GBP and SWAP into the in-country currency at the ATM, or when they spend abroad SWAPX lets

Following a number of judgements by gambling commissions across Europe, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance is now firmly back on the gaming sector agenda. Jane Jee, the CEO of RegTech specialist,

New research looks in-depth at this growing dynamic, including Signicat’s work with Rabobank Trondheim, Norway, 27th April 2018—Signicat, the world’s leading digital identity provider, has been profiled in Lafferty Group’s

“F for fingerprint”: embrace the future of payments with biometrics. F.CODE takes card payments to the next level since your fingerprint replaces the PIN code and so reinforces user’s security and

London, 2nd February – The Emerging Payment Association’s (Payments Association) Project International Trade team will join The Lord Mayor in a trade mission to Australia and New Zealand this month.

Wirecard, the international provider of digital financial solutions, has won Shell Indonesia as a new customer for Fleet Cards. The new Fleet Card solution can be used for all purchases

The traditional banks of bricks and mortar have made way for the invisible bank of the future. Customers no longer revolve their time around banking, they want services that integrate

Access to bank accounts is enabled by new regulations, but this may not be enough to stop banks from preventing Payment System Providers (PSPs) from trading and the most progressive

London, 14th December 2017 – Saxo Payments Banking Circle Virtual IBAN has been awarded Best Corporate Payments Initiative in the Banking Technology Awards 2017. Ground-breaking B2B financial utility, Banking Circle,

Following a consultation in August, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has now published a document that sets out our decision on the approach to the collection of PSR regulatory fees

We’re proud to announce a further strengthening of our global eKYC platform, introducing a new Danish eKYC service – available to both current and new clients across the globe. More

The use of credit and debit cards has grown for decades, and many observers, including Payments UK, are expecting growth in both value and volume of payments to continue. Recently this

IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, announced that WiZink, a bank that specializes in credit cards and simple savings solutions that respond to its

IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, today announces its partnership with FlexiGroup, Australia’s market leader in Point of Sale consumer and commercial finance to

London, UK. 15 November 2017: Modulr is today announcing an industry-first real-time inbound and outbound payments SLA that allows businesses to automate high volumes of complex payments any time, even out-of-hours and

London, December 2017 – A royal wedding, the FIFA World Cup, predictions of an extremely close midterm election in the US and the on-going negotiations for the UK to exit

Before the Christmas break we highlighted the opportunity to join the NPSO at a breakfast briefing on 17 January to hear an update on development and the launch of the

Bitstamp, a leading global digital currency exchange and the largest Bitcoin exchange in the EU in terms of volume, today announces Masterpayment, an independent payment processor, specializing in the requirements of

Hungary is probably not the first country that comes to mind when talking about fintech hotspots and innovation hubs. However, the country is very much at the forefront when it

Arkea Banking Services is proud to be the sponsor of a team of the “4L Trophy”. It is a race of 6 000 km for students in which the iconic Renault

Faster and real-time payment initiatives broke new ground in 2017, but so far, B2B payments has yet to really find its place in an accelerated world. In December’s PYMNTS Faster Payments

What do card issuing banks and eCommerce merchants share in common? The ever-growing burden of card-not-present fraud. Both sides respond with sophisticated arsenals of multi-layered fraud tools that aim to

Season ticket holders can use the contactless technology to enter stadium and make fast and easy payments at the POS or online As one of the leading providers of digital

December 22, 2017, London/Tokyo: JCB International Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “JCB”), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd, has partnered with iZettle, the award-winning Swedish fintech company,

LONDON, Jan. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Antoniella Gauci, Risk Manager at Pilatus Bank, compares the continued investment in fintech to a life insurance policy for banks. Gauci argues that banks

LONDON, Jan. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — It is an undeniable fact that most Millennials carry some sort of instinctive ability to understand and utilize digital technology simply because they

(LONDON) January 4, 2018 – Locke Lord’s Siobhan Moore, an experienced cards and payments lawyer with a strong profile in the payments industry, has been named Global Head of the Firm’s

NEW YORK, December 11, 2017 — American Express today announced it is eliminating the requirement for merchants to collect Card Members’ signatures for all purchase transactions at the point of

The tech industry is booming, with innovations such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cloud computing and big data disrupting everything from financial services and manufacturing to the way we communicate

At Coinify, we play an active role in mainstreaming the use of blockchain currencies. Partnering up with the leading global bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain was a very important milestone in this regard. In

Contis, a leading provider of end-to-end banking, payments and processing solutions in the UK and Europe, has today accelerated the revolution within business banking market with the launch of its

RIVERWOODS, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Discover announced today that cardmembers and Discover Bankcustomers who own an iPhone X can take advantage of Face ID to sign in to the Discover Mobile app. The

The need to make payments more secure whilst improving customer experience is becoming increasingly important for businesses. Our fire.com business account is used by a diverse range of business customers.

BROOKFIELD, Wis.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that Illinois Educators Credit Union(Springfield, Ill.) and Members Financial Federal Credit Union (Midland, Texas), have selected Fiserv to help them

When does a great deal turn out to be not such a great deal? When a credit card surcharge is added right at the end. Such hidden surcharges will be

6th December 2017 – London — Worldpay, a global leader in payments, has announced that it will partner with Klarna, a leader in invoice and credit based payments, to further enhance its

The economic impact of crimes like money laundering and terrorist financing cannot be overstated. They drain resources from a country’s productive economic activity – potentially destabilising its financial sector and

The Rt Hon. Nicky Morgan MP chair of the Treasury Committee wrote to LINK Chairman Sir Mark Boleat, on 27th November. Read more here.

Aschheim (Munich)/London: Today, Wirecard and Mastercard made Pay by Bank app, a fully digital payment solution, available to all Wirecard merchants in the UK. Pay by Bank app was created by

Metro Bank, the revolution in British banking, is now offering customers the option to set up a new payee on its mobile banking app. The new functionality is designed to

IDEMIA, the world leader in Augmented Identity, has been awarded a five year contract by the United Kingdom Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme to deliver a new Fingerprint Matcher Service.

Keith Briscoe, CMO of Ethoca, shares with us their success story: how the company helped easyJet in preventing fraud, minimizing losses and ensure fraudsters are kept off their planes. Read more