Largest Bank in Cyprus Integrates VASCO’s DIGIPASS for Apps as Part of PSD2 Requirements
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking
VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a global leader in digital solutions including identity, security and business productivity, today announced that Bank of Cyprus, the country’s largest bank, has secured access and transaction signing on its mobile and online banking application using DIGIPASS® for Apps.
PayPal Launches an Invoicing Extension for Facebook Messenger
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Today, we’re announcing a chat extension that enables invoicing within Facebook Messenger. The new extension will allow transactions that occur over Messenger to leverage the power and secure transactions that PayPal customers expect. The PayPal chat extension for invoicing allows sellers to create and send a PayPal Invoice directly within a Messenger conversation - complete with price and image - for the buyer to act on immediately; allowing...
Fidor Expands Middle East Africa Regional Hub in Dubai Silicon Oasis
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking
Fidor, the innovative provider of digital banking solutions that helps banks launch and run their own digital brand, today puts its expansion strategy into action through its newest office extension in Dubai Silicon Oasis, the integrated free zone technology park.
Dr. Claude-Anne Sant Fournier, Head of Legal at Pilatus Bank, discusses the premise leading to a successful implementation of the IV Anti-Money Laundering Directive
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking, Security
The Head of Legal at Pilatus Bank discusses the IV Anti-Money Laundering Directive (IV AML Directive) which was enacted on 25 June 2015, and is the most sweeping anti-money laundering legislation in Europe in several years that came into force on 26 June 2017.
Nasdaq to Deliver Blockchain e-Voting Solution to Strate
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Blockchain
Nasdaq and Strate (Pty) Ltd, the South African CSD, announced today an agreement for Nasdaq to deliver a new blockchain solution that would bring electronic voting to the South African capital markets. The solution will allow Strate, in conjunction with key stakeholders in the market, to provide general meeting services and give shareholders an easy, user-friendly and secure tool for voting remotely.
European Union Sales Growth Set to Outperform US this Black Friday, Predicts Ingenico
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Spending growth across the European Union is on track to outstrip the US this Black Friday, according to analysis by Ingenico, the global leader in seamless payment. Based on its payments data from 2016, spending uplift in the bloc is expected to be in excess of 450% above an average Friday, nearly three times the 162% spend increase in the US, and higher than the UK’s 318%. Transaction spending values are also anticipated to be significantly...
Secure Storage in the Cloud With New Storage Solution FragmentiX TM
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Security
The Austrian IT security company ProCom-Strasser introduces a new security product for cloud applications to the world market, enabling companies, operators of critical infrastructures and public authorities to securely store their data in cloud storage solutions. The special technological security concept was developed in close cooperation with cryptography experts at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The product innovation will be...
UniCredit Rolls Out its Cross-border Instant Payments Solution, Starting with Italy and Germany
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
UniCredit goes live with instant payments in Italy and Germany and becomes the first bank to offer the service in the German market The bank’s first payment was executed in the morning of 21 November between Germany and Italy
Turkey's VakifBank Taps Diebold Nixdorf To Upgrade 400 ATMs
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking
VakifBank, a leading Turkish bank, is expanding the functionality of its self-service channel by introducing new software and cash recycling systems from Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in enabling connected commerce for millions of consumers each day across the financial and retail industries.
RBC Unit Borealis AI to Launch Artificial Intelligence Lab in Montreal
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Continuing its investment in the Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, Borealis AI, an RBC Institute for Research, today announced that it will open a lab in Montreal, one of Canada’s most prominent AI hubs.
SEPA Instant Payments Is Live
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
SEPA Instant Payments (SCT inst) is the first instant payment scheme to be inter-operable in a region as large as SEPA and is a response to European customer needs for faster payments. From November 2017, customers of participating banks will be able to send money to accounts in 10 seconds regardless of the SEPA countries involved in the transaction, and can do this 24/7/365.
Synechron wins Global ACORD Insurance Innovation Award
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Data, Insurance
Synechron, Inc, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has won the global ACORD Insurance Innovation Challenge Award for Industry Disrupter for 2017. ACORD, the global provider of insurance data standards, recognized Synechron’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Accelerator for Visual Risk at an event in Boston, the firm has announced today.
SIA LAUNCHES A NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR INSTANT PAYMENTS
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
SIA launches “SIA EasyWay”, the new digital platform which allows banks and other payment service providers (PSPs) to manage at European level the instant payments available from 21 November on EBA Clearing’s RT1 infrastructure developed by SIA, in addition to all other SEPA payment and collection instruments.
POCKIT AND MESPO TAKE PRIZES AT UK’S FIRST FINTECH FOR ALL COMPETITION
- 8 years 2 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Robo money saver Mespo takes newcomer crown, with mobile banking app Pockit winning two prizes - the established fintech category and special Experian Spotlight award Almost 100 high calibre entries to UK’s first Fintech For All Competition Competition launched at request as part of the Government’s Digital Strategy Winners of Tech City UK’s first ever Fintech For All Competition were revealed last night in a thrilling final in the heart...
FSS AadhaarPay Wins Best Alternative Payments Awards at Payments Awards UK
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments
FSS AadhaarPay, a biometric-enabled merchant payment acceptance solution, has won the Payments Awards UK in the “Best Alternative Payment Award” category. The awards were announced at the 5th Edition of the Annual Payments Awards, at a prestigious awards ceremony in London.
