Senior Appointments Add 60-years’ Payments Expertise to Renovite
- 7 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Cloud experts Renovite Technologies has strengthened its position in the electronic payments market through the appointment of two senior product managers. The appointment of Anton Godfrey and David Lock adds over 60-years’ specialist payments experience to Renovite Technologies, who deliver cloud-native payments solutions to banks and financial organisations worldwide. Mr Godfrey and Mr Lock will fulfil global roles, working closely with...
Visa Acquires Control of Earthport
- 7 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
Visa announced it has acquired control of Earthport, a company that provides cross-border payment services to banks, money transfer service providers and businesses via the world’s largest independent ACH network.
WHISHWORKS Announces Ambitious Plans for UK Growth and Global Expansion
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Big Data
WHISHWORKS, a Big Data specialist and MuleSoft®strategic partner for the banking and finance sector, has announced exciting expansion plans across the USA and the Middle East as it grows its customer base, increases headcount and reports its highest ever year-on-year revenue growth.
F-Secure Security Engineering Awarded IEC 62243 Certifications
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security
Cyber security provider F-Secure has earned two new International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) certifications that recognize the company’s expertise in developing secure components for industrial control systems (ICSs). The certifications, IEC-62243-4-1 and IEC-62243-4-2, define the cyber security requirements for the development lifecycles and products used in industrial control and automation systems.
Open Banking platform Tink announces partnership with Natwest
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Open Banking
Tink and NatWest today announces a new partnership agreement that will positively impact NatWest’s mobile banking. The agreement will give NatWest access to Tink’s Personal Finance Management (PFM) and Data Enrichment products that will be integrated into NatWest’s core mobile banking app. This will allow NatWest to improve its mobile banking offering by giving customers personalised insights based on their transaction history to help them...
IHS Markit Launches Solution to Speed New Account Onboarding
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Banking
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, and analytics, today announced the launch of Onboarding Accelerator, a new solution to help banks and other service providers open accounts with institutional clients more quickly. Onboarding new clients is complex in financial services because of the amount of information the bank or service provider must collect to satisfy know your customer, anti-money laundering, credit,...
FinTech Firms Countingup and Hokodo Partner to Reduce Risk For Small Business
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Risk Management
Countingup, the UK’s number one small business banking and accounting app, has signed a partnership agreement with fintech start-up and insurance solutions provider Hokodo, in a move designed to lessen the risk faced by SMEs from late payments and unpaid invoices. This partnership is the first between a small business-focused insurance firm and a banking and accounting company to give UK SMEs the option to protect their income on an invoice-by-...
Fingerprint Cards AB reaches 1bn sensors milestone
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Payments, Authentication Technology
World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints™) has announced that it has now shipped 1 billion fingerprint sensors worldwide. The Swedish-based company has played a central role in bringing smartphone fingerprint sensors to the mass-market. Having led major advancements to the technology, Fingerprints was responsible for driving the first integration of fingerprint touch sensors into an Android handset in 2014, with its...
Women in FinTech Launches International Podcast Series
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Raiha Buchanan, founder of Women in FinTech (WiFT), and Sarah Kok, the founding member of this initiative, have launched the first episode of their podcast. In this episode, titled “How Did You Get Into FinTech,” they share their ambitions for the podcast and the WiFT initiative as a whole. Raiha and Sarah also, share their own stories in this first episode of the podcast, intended to be a regular series.
Wolters Kluwer’s Lien Solution Launches Portfolio Sync
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Alternative Finance
Wolters Kluwer’s Lien Solutions has launched Portfolio Sync, a first-of-its-kind lien management solution designed for lenders who use multiple methods of submitting Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings.
European payment services company SIA appoints new Deputy Chairman
- 7 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Following the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting held on 29th April, SIA’s Board of Directors – meeting yesterday under the chairmanship of Giuliano Asperti – has appointed Massimo Sarmi as Deputy Chairman and has confirmed Nicola Cordone as Chief Executive Officer of the company.
Verizon DBIR 2019 reveals global cybercrime trends, based on breach analysis
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security
C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Senior executives are 12x more likely to be the target of social incidents, and 9x more likely to be the target of social breaches than in previous years – and financial motivation remains the key driver.
TransferGo reaches 1,000,000 customer milestone
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Money Transfers
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today announced that its global customer base has surpassed one million and continues to grow by more than 2,000 new users each day. This landmark follows a $3.4 million investment from Seventure Partners, one of the European leaders in venture capital.
Flywire and UnionPay Extend Partnership on Cross-Border Payments
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Flywire and UnionPay International today announced that they are re-launching a promotional program that provides Chinese students and patients with discounted foreign exchange rates on cross-border tuition and healthcare payments.
Tryzens’ organic growth reflects strong digital push in retail sector
- 7 years 2 months ago
- E-Commerce, Consultancy
Tryzens, a leading digital commerce consultancy, recorded an impressive 68% revenue growth in 2018, boosting top line revenue to £11.9 million and generating a profit of £0.9 million reflecting the tremendous focus around digital growth and transformation in retail.
