Digital payments expert PayPoint, is urging businesses to overcome the financial challenges of achieving PCI compliance by embracing its platform, MultiPay. A recent Verizon Business 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (2020 DBIR) has revealed a worrying picture of businesses failing to protect their cardholder data as a result of abandoning Payment Card Industry (PCI) accreditation. However,  

LINE Corporation (“LINE”) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (“Mizuho Financial Group”) announced today that their respective subsidiaries, LINE Financial Corporation (“LINE Financial”) and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (“Mizuho Bank”), have jointly agreed to make an additional investment and a change to the management structure of LINE Bank Preparatory Company.

TransferWise today announces its renaming to Wise. Originally launched in 2011 as a money transfer service for people, the company has expanded to build a cross-border payments network helping to make international banking cheaper, faster and more pleasant for its 10 million personal and business customers. 

Tweeq, a Saudi fintech which aims to provide a feature-rich spending account for individuals and SMEs, has signed exclusive partnership agreements with Mastercard, the leading technology company in the global payments industry and Paymentology, a leading digital commerce service and payment solution provider.

Avaloq, a global leader in digital banking solutions, core banking software and wealth management technology, has won the Best Integrated Front Office Solution award at today’s Asian Private Banker Technology Awards. 

Acin has been chosen as one of the first ever RiskTech providers to join the UK Department for International Trade (DIT)’s overseas roadshows, due to its pioneering approach to non-financial risk management, which is setting the global standard.

  Record £125bn added to saving reserves during lockdown¹, average £5,000 per household

• Interest rates remain at historically low levels²

Bank of England estimates £1.6tr in household cash deposits - £225bn in non-interest bearing deposits³

Marqeta has developed a new credit card issuing platform to help the world’s innovators launch cutting-edge credit products in an industry dominated by traditional players. This move into credit rounds out Marqeta’s comprehensive card issuing platform, which allows them to power any card type – credit, debit, and prepaid – through Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform.  

Goode Intelligence (www.goodeintelligence.com) is delighted to announce that Biometric Summit 2021 will take place on Tuesday 13th April as an online event.

Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations and business intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its brand new Virtual Experience Center. The platform enables channel partners and end users to easily and efficiently collaborate with Genetec employees to discuss projects, view demos and access materials, in one virtual environment from anywhere in the world.