Asia Retains Payment 2017 Innovation Crown, While Europe Climbs Ranking for First Time in Nine Years
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
The Global Payments Innovation Jury today releases its 2017 Report, revealing that while Asia remains home to most payments innovation, Europe has leapfrogged Africa, North America and Latin America for the first time in nine years. The Global Jury is a panel of 70 CEOs and senior industry executives from 37 countries across 6 continents, making it the most global body to look into payments innovation. Every two years, the Jury convenes to... more
Brits Queue-up to Complain about Shopping
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
It has been said that even if he is alone, an Englishman forms an orderly queue of one. New research from leading payments provider Adyen reveals the evolving – and often confusing – relationship the British public have with retail, both online and in-store. Whether it’s our baffling bond with queues, our beloved bargains or even the rarely discussed boys shopping day out, one thing is for certain – there is nothing simple about shopping.
SWIFT Offers 200,000 EUR for FinTech Community to Leverage gpi Platform
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
SWIFT invites FinTech companies from around the world to develop new overlay services that leverage its SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) platform. SWIFT will provide funding of up to 200,000 EUR for the two winning FinTech finalists of an Industry Challenge. The FinTech winners will work with banks on collaborative innovation concepts that solve additional industry challenges in cross-border payments on top of SWIFT gpi.
Money20/20 Europe Announces Move for 2018 to Amsterdam
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), the global, business-to-business information company, today announces that Money20/20 Europe, its leading pan-European FinTech event, will move venue to the Rai in Amsterdam, in June 2018. Money20/20 Europe launched in 2016, attracting just under 4,000 attendees to the Bella Center in Copenhagen. Its second edition, also at the Bella Center, will take place on 26-28 June 2017 before making the move to the larger Rai... more
Rabobank Taps Finastra Payment Services Hub for Cross-border Payments
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Finastra today announced that Rabobank has selected the global payment services hub from Finastra (previously D+H) to centralize cross-border payments.
TruStone Financial Federal Credit Union Taps Symitar for Mobile App
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry. Its Symitar® division today announced that TruStone Financial Federal Credit Union has launched the Banno Mobile™ app to deliver a sophisticated and highly integrated digital banking experience to its more than 20,000 mobile banking members.
Avalon Solutions Group Unveils Payments App for Small Biz
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Avalon Solutions Group, a financial technology company specializing in small business SaaS-based payment solutions today announced the launch of Payably™, a mobile payment app that allows small businesses to receive payments on-the-go.
Tesco Bank Extends Tsys Payments Agreement
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Tsys announced today that it has extended its payments agreement with Tesco Bank to continue supporting the bank’s credit card business in the UK. Under the agreement, TSYS will provide full customer account management services on its industry leading TS2® platform. Tesco Bank aims to be the bank for people who shop at Tesco and provides 8.1 million accounts and policies to customers. The bank offers a full range of core retail banking and... more
Wirecard Signs Global Mobile Payments Processing Partnership with VEON
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Wirecard and VEON have signed a global payments and processing agreement that will see Wirecard handling the airtime top-up as well as third party payments functionality on VEON’s personal internet platform. This means customers will be able to upload and update their mobile payment accounts on-the-go and within a few seconds.
Finastra and SIA Team Up to Expand Real-time Payments in Europe
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Finastra today announced that it is partnering with SIA, European leader in payment infrastructures and services, to provide real-time payment capabilities to financial institutions operating all over Europe. This will enable financial institutions to use the Finastra (formerly D+H) payments solutions to connect via SIAnet to RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European Instant Payments infrastructure.
PayPal Small Business Financing Scheme Advances £400 Million in Working Capital
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Today PayPal revealed its small business financing scheme has provided more than £400 million to British small businesses.
FuturePay Collaborates with Salesforce Partner Programme
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
FuturePay today announced that it has joined the Salesforce Partner Program in support of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the fastest path to unified commerce. Commerce Cloud enables brands to provide personalized experiences for shoppers that span web, mobile, social and in-store. And now, as part of the world’s No. 1 CRM platform – Salesforce – brands can deliver completely unified experiences for customers that extend beyond commerce to include... more
Samsung Partners with Cuscal to Bring Mobile Payments to Oz FIs
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Samsung Electronics Australia today announced a partnership with Cuscal, Australia’s leading independent provider of payment solutions that will enable 38 financial institutions to offer Samsung Pay. Samsung Pay is a secure and easy-to-use mobile payments service available on compatible Samsung devices including the Gear S3 smartwatch and the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones1.
Form3 Partners with Starling Bank to Provide Real-Time Access to Faster Payments
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Form3, the cloud based end-to-end secure standard for global payments processing, today announced a partnership with Starling Bank, the first mobile-only bank to launch a new current account in the UK and 13th member of Faster Payments. This will further enhance the Form3 Payments-as-a-Service platform by providing an end-to-end managed service for UK real-time payments. For the first time in the UK, this will allow clients a real-time Faster... more
Worldpay Releases Entirely Downloadable Card Terminal for Smartphones
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Payments
Worldpay, the UK’s leading payment processor, has announced the launch of the first ever extended-trial of a software only card payment mPOS (mobile point of sale).
