VoxSmart, the global leader in mobile surveillance technology, has announced its acquisition of the Fonetic Trading business to deliver a comprehensive communications surveillance offering for Capital Markets participants.

Biju Suresh Babu, Lead, Open Banking & PSD2, Fiorano Software at Open Banking Expo 2019 speaks about Fiorano API Management

Financial IT speaks with Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano Software at Open Banking Expo 2019 about PSD2 compliance and company's offerings

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is the exclusive payment partner for the SwatchPAY! launch in Germany and Austria. With the help of the mobile payment solution boon, consumers can carry out easy and contactless payments with the brand new line of Swatch watches.

Financial IT speaks with Todd Clyde, CEO of Token at Open Banking Expo 2019. Todd Clyde highlights the importance of PSD2 compliance for banks.

There’s little dispute about the economic clout of Generation Z – The adults born after 1997 represent $44 billion in buying power. By 2020, they will make up 40 percent of U.S. consumers. One-quarter of the U.S. population belongs to this group, so it would seem that brands would scramble to court its members.

You have probably seen the headlines about banks not being ready for PSD2 – as the deadline approached and then passed, they were hard to miss. While it is true that less than 50% of banks have met all of the requirements mandated by the EU legislation, this is far from the full story. The open banking outlook for Europe is, in fact, brighter than perhaps you have been led to believe.

Ingenico Group , the global leader in seamless payment, is pleased to announce the appointment of Panteha Pedram, Director of Risk at Ingenico ePayments to Merchant Risk Council’s (MRC) European Advisory Board. The Merchant Risk Council (MRC) is a global trade association providing year-round support and education to fraud and payments professionals globally.

Following the success of its Instant Transfer feature in the U.S., PayPal and Mastercard recently extended the service to Mastercard cardholders in Singapore and a number of European countries.

Mastercard Send™ is an application that leverages the card network infrastructure to facilitate the secure availability of funds in real-time*. With Mastercard Send™, PayPal users can transfer their account balances to eligible Mastercard cards seamlessly and conveniently, typically within seconds*.

The new functionality will utilise Modulr’s Direct Debits Mandate, adding another essential feature that Revolut customers can use in their everyday lives.

This new feature allows Revolut’s EEA customers with local UK account details to make all their regular GBP Direct Debit payments straight from their Revolut accounts, whether that be retail customers paying for their gym memberships, phone contracts, utility bills or subscriptions, or business customers paying supplier bills or regular invoices.