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Payment Systems Regulator Reveals Annual Report

8 years 8 months ago
Payments

Now in its second operational year, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has today published its annual report for 2016/17, which reviews its work over the past year. This year’s report highlights key achievements and milestones for 2016/17. The last 12 months have enabled the regulator to focus on the foundations set out during its first operational year, and make significant progress in addressing the issues identified to make payment systems...

Innotribe Selects Ten Firms for Russian Startup Challenge

8 years 8 months ago
Infrastructure

Working in close collaboration with Innotribe, over one hundred judges from across the financial, technology, and investment communities evaluated over 40 applications received for the first edition of the Startup Challenge for Russia.

Equiniti Acquires Nostrum Group

8 years 8 months ago
RegTech

Equiniti Group plc, the FTSE listed FinTech and regulatory services business, today announces the acquisition of the Nostrum Group Limited (Nostrum).

Record Tumbles as Bacs Sets New Processing High

8 years 8 months ago
Payments

An impressive 120,000 transactions in a single minute – that’s the new record set by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), the organisation behind Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit in the UK. More than 111 million payments were processed in just one day at the end of June, outdistancing the previous high recorded just nine months earlier by 2.4 million. The news underlines the appeal of automated payments to UK businesses and consumers alike,...

TCV invests in AxiomSL

8 years 8 months ago
Compliance, Security

AxiomSL, the global leader for risk data management and regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, today announced that growth equity firm TCV has made a strategic investment in the company. This investment represents AxiomSL’s first institutional financing, having bootstrapped to scale since its founding in 1991. TCV’s investment will enable the company to accelerate growth and cement its position as the financial...

Pendo CEO Pamela Pecs Cytron talks about unstructured data in business debate interview

8 years 8 months ago
Banking, Data

The exponential increase in the amount of data held by financial institutions, 80 percent of which is unstructured data, is fast becoming a key challenge for CTOs/CIOs in financial institutions around the globe.

Droit Reports Big Bank Wins for MiFIDII Tech

8 years 8 months ago
Compliance

Five of the world’s leading financial institutions have committed to using Droit Financial Technologies (“Droit”) as their choice for MiFID II trade compliance. The decision by BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds and UBS represents a watershed in the industry search for a strategic solution in the run-up to the implementation of the new European regulations.

Blockchain Live Confirms Headline Partner Sponsor Block.One

8 years 8 months ago
Blockchain

Blockchain Live to be held on September 20, 2017 at The Brewery in London, is an international conference which aims to unlock the value of blockchain for enterprise and the public sector. As well as staging industry leaders making headlines in important developments in blockchain, Blockchain Live is proud to partner with block.one, the open source software and blockchain company developing EOS, the first blockchain operating system designed to...

Masterpass is Available on Air Canada

8 years 8 months ago
Credit Cards

Mastercard today announced that Masterpass is available on Air Canada.com and vacations.aircanada.com, helping travelers get from booking to vacation-mode even faster. Air Canada joins a rapidly expanding roster of travel sites offering fast, easy and secure digital payment with Masterpass.

Tesco Unveils Contactless Loyalty Card

8 years 8 months ago
Payments

Tesco has today announced a host of exciting improvements to Clubcard, the most rewarding loyalty scheme in the retail sector, making it even simpler and easier for customers and colleagues to use.

Planet Payment and ACI Worldwide Reveal UnionPay International's SecurePlus

8 years 8 months ago
Payments

Planet Payment, Inc., a leading provider of international and multi-currency payment processing services, and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced the launch of UnionPay International’s SecurePlus, the latest in UnionPay’s solution set, that will now enable the acceptance of UnionPay debit and credit cards online, with several significant enhancements.

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Gemalto for Leadership in Encryption and Data Protection

8 years 8 months ago
Security

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announced today it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2017 Encryption and Data Protection Technology Leadership Award1. Frost & Sullivan analysts independently evaluated Gemalto's SafeNet data protection and encryption solutions, in particular, the commercial success, growth potential, operational efficiency, and benefits provided to customers.

TCV Invests in AxiomSL

8 years 8 months ago
Data

CM Makes Acquisition of Docdata Payments from Ingram Micro

8 years 8 months ago
Payments

Netherlands-based mobile service provider acquires payment institution Docdata Payments from its American owner Ingram Micro. This was agreed this Monday by both parties.