EQT VIII and EQT Ventures, in partnership with Saxo Payments Banking Circle’s founders and other co-investors, to acquire Saxo Payments Banking Circle Saxo Payments Banking Circle’s unique banking platform enables

Congratulations to Payments Association Advisory Board Chair and Paysafe’s CEO Merchant Acquiring Europe, Andrea Dunlop for winning the Woman in PayTech award at the PayTech Awards 2018. The Woman in PayTech Award celebrates

CFT Group, a financial technology (FinTech) start-up, based in Cornwall and London has just been awarded the accolade of ‘Best Consumer Payments Initiative’ at the PayTech awards 2018. The unique

Biocryptology CEO Ted Oorbals took to the stage for a discussion with Consult Hyperion Director of Innovation Dave Birch as part of Money20/20 Europe. The conversation served as a platform for Oorbals to

Private equity firm Dunedin has invested £44m in a fintech firm in the third largest investment seen in the sector in the UK this year. Advisers on the deal included PwC, Dickson

New regulations will require payments to have two factors of authentication London, 5th July 2018 – With new EU regulations coming into place next September, Mastercard is predicting a significant

Partnership will seek to help expand digital payments acceptance and establish a new payment standard with ‘Pay by Bank’ app, as well as focus on making digital payments even more

London, 18th July 2018 – Saxo Payments Banking continues to dominate the cross border payments sector as a disrupting force, as it was named Best Corporate Payments Initiative at the

GSMA service promises faster onboarding for remote banking customers London, United Kingdom, July 19, 2018 — Entersekt, an innovator in mobile-first fintech solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement with the

In July, Fortytwo Data CEO Julian Dixon joined the All Party Parliamentary Group for Digital Currencies Evidence session chaired by Lord Harris of Haringey and John Howell MP at the

July 2018, London: A further 68 companies have signed up to HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, including Global Processing Services, J.P. Morgan, Bupa, Admiral Group, Equifax, Investec Asset Management

As identity fraud can have serious consequences on all areas of users’ lives, Claudius van der Meulen, SVP Entersekt Europe shares some ideas on how to overcome it. Identity fraud is currently higher

In digital banking, and more recently also in the mobile payments sphere, security and usability are commonly viewed as incompatible priorities. By implication, for security to be strong enough, it

José Beltrán from STET and Craig Ramsey from ACI Worldwide discuss the latest developments in real-time payments in Europe and how using our joint on premise or cloud offering of

By: Craig Ramsey, Head of Real-Time Payments, Product Management I recently joined a panel discussion at EBAday 2018, alongside representatives from across the payments ecosystem, and the clear consensus was that real-time

Discover how to rapidly implement a real-time, Open API solution to meet the regulatory deadline, and be first to market with new customer propositions. Read more here.

The company responsible for billions of UK payments worth trillions of pounds has appointed experienced executive Andy Hollingdale as its first general manager. Read more here.

The European Banking Authority have just published their final report and guidelines on fraud reporting under PSD2. There’s much to digest and understand, but one thing that stands out for me

In a recent blog post we explored the underlying concepts behind machine learning and its tremendous benefits in fighting application fraud. Since then, I had the opportunity to speak with one of

Which works better for modeling credit risk: traditional scorecards or artificial intelligence and machine learning? Given the excitement around AI today, this question is inevitable. It’s also a bit silly.

Information security teams around the world are working hard to protect their businesses from data breaches and other threats. But do those businesses truly understand how good a job they’re

In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other

One of the largest payment solution providers in the Philippines redeploys staff to more strategic work using FICO® Customer Communication Services Read more here.

FICO® Enterprise Security Score aims to raise global cybersecurity effectiveness SAN JOSE, CA — June 27, 2018 Highlights: FICO is offering free subscriptions that allow users to access their FICO Enterprise Security

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 12, 2018 Highlights: FICO has been awarded seven new patents for fraud detection, AI and analytics Three of the patents granted are related to the

NEW YORK/LONDON – 27 July 2018 – Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business today announced that following the closing of the strategic partnership transaction between Thomson Reuters and private equity funds

We’re incredibly pleased to announce that we have been recognised once again for two honours at the Payments Association Awards! Despite seeing more entries than ever before, our innovative tools

A new study reveals that eCommerce merchants have been slow to adopt new fraud mitigation technologies; while 55% currently use card PIN authentication, 33% or less use other emerging tools—even

More information about the event here.

Ray Brash, CEO, PrePay Solutions, spoke to Fintech Finance about how PrePay Solutions is achieving a 60-70% growth rate through international expansion and continual investment in its technology. Watch the

Alan King, President of FLEETCOR UK and Australasia, talked to Fintech Finance about how FLEETCOR’s subsidiary brand, Allstar Business Solutions, turned regulation to its advantage by launching the Allstar Plus

Welwyn Garden City, 26 July 2018: PayPoint and eBay have signed a strategic partnership that will enable eBay sellers and buyers to access the Collect+ network for convenient click and collect parcel services.

17 July 2018 – Today, leading European payments provider Klarna has announced a partnership with UK-based online furniture brand, Swoon. When checking out online, shoppers will now be able to

Signicat is pleased to announce we have formally become a member of ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) joining their technical committee on Electronic Signatures and Infrastructure (ESI). ESI is the

Konsentus was proud this month to have been a Finalist at the BBVA Fintech Awards.  From 100’s of Global entries we were selected as one of the Finalists with the

The cards and Payments team are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Payments Association Award in the category of Professional Service Organisation. The team strive to provide legal support

Marqeta is delighted to have moved into our new Shoreditch office in July and to have Dean King, formerly of Tuxedo and Paysafe joining the team as Business Development Manager.

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

Watch the video here.

In a previous blog I wrote about authorized push payment fraud and how social engineering leads to victims making inadvertent payments to fraudsters. I highlighted the case for banks to use behavioral

Myles shares his thoughts on the future of opening banking, the top trends and how his team use Catalyst to stay up-to-speed on the fast-moving fintech industry. Read more here.