F-Secure joins Broadband Forum to help shape Connected Home security standards
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Security
F-Secure has joined
Finastra strengthens APAC team with Wissam Khoury as new head
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Banking, People Moves
Finastra has appointed Wissam Khoury to lead its Asia Pacific (APAC) business.
Monevo partners with Usave to improve customers’ access to credit
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Retail Banking
Monevo, Europe’s largest lending marketplace and platform, has announced it has partnered with yet another brand seeking to improve their customers’ access to credit, usave.
Bitwala Launches Bitcoin Banking App
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies, Banking
For the first time, mobile users can open a German bank account with an integrated bitcoin wallet and trading on their smartphone within minutes. Bitwala, Germany’s cryptocurrency flagship, makes this possible with the launch of its new Bitcoin banking app for iOS and Android. What is more, the account opening process is reduced to just a few minutes. It was never safer, easier, and faster to manage Bitcoin.
equensWorldline extend service agreement by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
equensWorldline, a subsidiary of Worldline, European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announces the early renewal of its service agreement by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). Under the agreement, equensWorldline will provide SEPA payment services for LBBW and process more than 1 billion transactions per year.
Ingenico ePayments enables YOOZOO Games Global Expansion
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Ingenico ePayments, the ecommerce division of Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, announced that it will provide payment services to YOOZOO Games, the distributor of popular games such as Game of Thrones Winter is Coming and Saint Seiya Awakening: Knights of the Zodiac. Ingenico’s payment systems will support the global gaming company to expand internationally.
Cryptix acquires Liechtensteine digital assets exchange Blocktrade
- 6 years 6 months ago
- M&A Deals
The Cryptix AG, a Swiss full-service provider in the blockchain and DLT sector, has completed the acquisition of Blocktrade, a Liechtenstein digital assets exchange. As part of this acquisition, the team of the Vaduz-based company remains with Blocktrade and will be expanded in the coming months. In the future, both companies want to grow the existing structure and features of the digital asset exchange. The acquisition will not affect customers...
LINK Protects Free Access to Cash for Every UK High Street
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Responding to the rapid and unprecedented decline in cash usage by UK consumers, LINK, the country’s main cash machine network, has announced that funding will be made available to protect free access to cash for every high street in the UK. From today, should a high street be threatened with the loss of an ATM or Post Office, LINK will step in to ensure that an ATM is made available and paid for with funding from all the UK’s main banks and...
PayActiv Streamlines Earned Wage Access with Fiserv
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Digital Identity, Payments
Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, announced today that PayActiv will enhance employee financial wellness by streamlining access to earned wages with money movement capabilities
PPRO rebrands signifying a look to the future of payments
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
PPRO, the cross-border e-payments specialist has rebranded, marking a shift in both the future of the company and the payments industry.
Financial Data Exchange welcomed Visa and Mastercard
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
The Financial Data Exchange welcomed eight new members between May 1 and July 31, 2019, bringing the total membership to 55 organizations spanning the full breadth of financial services ecosystem, from financial institutions to data aggregators, banking core processors and fintechs.
MHB-Bank becomes Raisin Bank – Focus on Banking-as-a-Service for Fintechs
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Banking, Retail Banking
The Berlin-based fintech Raisin continues to expand. Following the successful conclusion of ownership control procedures by Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (known as BaFin), Raisin has taken over MHB-Bank as sole owner, thus becoming the first fintech in Germany to buy a bank. Since Raisin launched in 2013, the Frankfurt-based bank has been Raisin’s servicing bank in Germany and Austria. From this business partnership a close...
Inefficient Procurement Processes are Costing UK Businesses Almost £2m per Year
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has shown that procurement, supply chain and finance professionals are spending almost a third (31%) of their time dealing with inefficient paper-based or manual procurement processes, which is costing UK businesses on average £1.94m annually* and limiting procurement teams’ ability to deliver more strategic value.
BearingPoint, Berlin Hyp, SAP and okadis develop solution for the integration with SAP FSDM in regulatory reporting on Abacus360 Banking
- 6 years 6 months ago
- RegTech
BearingPoint RegTech, one of the leading providers of Regulatory and Risk Technology (RegTech/RiskTech), announced today that they are developing a solution for the integration of the SAP Financial Services Data Management (FSDM) data model on Abacus360 Banking for use in regulatory reporting in a joint project with their customer Berlin Hyp and cooperation partners SAP and okadis Consulting GmbH.
Blockchain Live returns to London for its third year on the 25th of September
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Blockchain
Blockchain Live returns to London for its third year on the 25th of September, gathering industry leaders and innovators to discuss the applications and impact of blockchain across various industries.
