The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), the leading London-based professional association of payment players, which brings together more than 150 operators from all areas of the payment value chain, is expanding its European Union network from Luxembourg.

A new separate legal structure has been created as a non-profit business association: the Emerging Payments Association EU (EPA EU).

Swedbank, the major bank in the home markets of Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has selected SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, to enable instant payments through RT1, EBA Clearing’s pan- European system with the real-time payments platform of TietoEVRY, a leading digital services and software company.

iProov, a leading provider of biometric authentication technology, today announces that its Verifier product is now available to organisations needing to verify customer identities in a host of new physical environments, including kiosks.

 PPS, formerly PrePay Solutions, and subsidiary of Edenred, the everyday companion for people at work, has today been approved to become an issuer and processor of Visa.

International Compliance Association (ICA), the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community, is pleased to announce it has signed a new, strategic partnership with the Compliance Academy, a private educational institution for compliance, risk and governance professionals, to develop best compliance practice in the Czech Republic.