The go-to trade association for all UK retailers, British Retail Consortium (BRC), is working with cutting-edge dispute processing and remediation company, Chargebacks911, to help its members better understand how to combat friendly fraud and chargebacks.

Adyen, the payments platform of choice for the world’s leading companies, has today announced it will be working in partnership with Vue to help deliver enhanced customer experiences across all sales channels. 

The unified payments experience will be introduced at Vue venues across the UK and Ireland. This will provide cinema goers with a seamless payments experience whether customers are purchasing tickets in the cinema or via one of Vue’s online channels. Customers will be able to pay via their preferred methods including all digital wallets.

Mastercard today announces a new partnership with Nationwide as it prepares to launch a new business banking service targeting Britain’s 5.6 million small businesses.

The partnership is founded on Nationwide’s experience of delivering best in class banking services and Mastercard’s innovative, trusted and secure digital business banking solutions. Whilst Nationwide continues to gear up for the introduction of its business accounts, Mastercard debit cards will be made available to business customers following the launch early next year. 

MoneyNetint has partnered with Onfido, to help enhance their online security procedures so users

Konsentus and Carta Worldwide today announced a new strategic partnership. Carta Worldwide is an international leader in digital transaction technology, specialising in mobile & emerging payments.

Digital Vega, the leading FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, today announced that Standard Chartered Bank has become a Liquidity Provider (LP) on its Medusa trading platform. 

Standard Chartered has a unique global footprint, actively trading over 100 currencies and pricing an unparalleled range of emerging markets and G10 currencies. The addition of Standard Chartered adds broader liquidity to the Medusa platform, which is the market leader in automated FX Options trading.

Equiniti Riskfactor, the market-leading provider of risk management and fraud analytics software for the global commercial finance industry, is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Stock as Head of Operations, reflecting strong recent growth and international expansion for the company.

The evolving fintech ecosystem is a financial revolution and has become part of the everyday norm much quicker than many ecosystem developments of the past. Thanks to fintech, we can now send money to friends and family using digital cross-border payment services or deposit a check by simply taking a picture on your phone. Banking or moving money across borders has never been easier as fintech makes the experience of financial transactions increasingly hassle-free.

Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) recently became the first Philippine bank to successfully pilot blockchain-based remittance from Singapore to the Philippines. This was done in partnership with OCBC Bank, Singapore's longest established bank, using the Adhara liquidity management and international payments platform.

WorldStream, a fast growing provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hosting solutions with more than 15,000 dedicated servers installed and a global network with 10Tbps of bandwidth available, is preparing itself for further global growth in response to increased customer demand by announcing a major revamp in its management lineup and promoting six of its employees to the role of company director.