Tuxedo Money Solutions, a leading payment technology provider has launched a new instant-issue line of Escape Travel Money Prepaid MasterCard^® Cards, allowing travel agents to sell currency cards, which are immediately activated for use the same day.

Escape is a prepaid travel card programme, which integrates with travel agents’ internal sales software to offer customers a simple, safe and cost-effective way to manage overseas spending, and enables agents to generate an additional revenue stream through attractive commission payments. 

Mobile World Congress may be over, but the dust is still settling from the biggest mobile event of the year.

With so many announcements before, during and after the event, it can be hard to separate the gold dust from the gimmicks. To help, here’s our summary of some of the biggest mobile payments trends from the event, and what they mean for the industry in 2016 and beyond.

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Prospero is a comprehensive system that cover all apsects of financial operations: Wealth Management, Asset Management, Fund Administration and Independent Asset Management/Family Office.

Prospero allows for great productivity gains, in particular by giving access to your operations department to a system that will allow them to capture their transactions and administer their portfolios. It supports multi-language character sets, is multi-currency, and has checks field validation. It can also be accessible through the Web.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumers making contactless payments via their mobile handsets will reach 148 million this year, with Apple and Samsung together accounting for nearly 70% of new customers.

TIM Group, provider of the world’s leading network for broker trade ideas, and OTAS Technologies, the global leader for next-generation market analytics and trader intelligence, today announced the integration of TIM Group’s intelligent broker analytics within the OTAS Apps. The partnership will provide mutual clients with unique, predictive, and actionable market sentiment immediately at the point of decision making.

Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that help card issuers and online merchants increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, today announced a partnership with Pegasystems Inc., (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering the world’s leading enterprises with strategic business applications.

Payment service provider Computop will attend RBTE in London to discuss the security benefits of its recent Payment Card Industry Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) certification. An industry security developed by MasterCard and Visa to curb increasing theft and misuse of credit card data, the P2PE certification enables Computop’s Paygate solution to offer UK and EU omnichannel retailers a certified point of sale (POS) solution based on P2PE encryption.