Ledgermatic Plans to Break Virtual Payment Cartel
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Corporate treasury specialist Ledgermatic today launches its White Paper, offering a first look at use cases, solutions and technologies it intends to deploy ahead of its product release later this year. It will aid organizations to future-proof their corporate treasury services, allowing them to hold and transact digital assets like Bitcoin in a compliant way.
Iliad Solutions Appoints New CTO
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
Iliad Solutions, a global leader in payments testing, has expanded its leadership group and today announces that Alexi Karalis has joined its executive team as Chief Technology Officer.
Curve and Equifax UK partner to deliver consumer credit solution to Curve Credit
Equifax UK, the business and consumer insights expert, has signed an exclusive agreement with UK consumer fintech and payment card app Curve to deliver comprehensive verification and ID solutions to its new personal finance product, Curve Credit. Powered by Open Banking, Curve Credit allows consumers to ‘Go Back in Time’ and pay later via instalments on transactions made with their Curve card.
RTGS.global Bolsters Already Impressive Board of Advisors Adding ECB’s ex Director General and Lord Holmes of Richmond
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
RTGS.global, the world’s first real-time cross-border liquidity network, today announces that industry heavyweights, Jean-Michel Godeffroy and Lord Chris Holmes, have joined the company’s growing advisory board which already includes fintech industry leaders Phil Kenworthy and Dr Ruth Wandhöfer.
Banking Circle enhances frictionless cross border payments with purpose-built, cloud-based payments platform
Banking Circle, the financial infrastructure provider, today announces that it is now completely cloud-based, with all aspects of its infrastructure hosted within Microsoft Azure. This includes its purpose built, cloud-first, cross border payments platform, which delivers greater speed, enhanced functionality, and a more intuitive user experience to its clients.
What Are the Advantages of Bitcoin Halving?
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Bitcoins
Bitcoin has been in the spotlight for the last year due to its massive bull market phase and, it's the previous halving that happened on May 11th, 2020. It should be noted that one of the contributing factors for this bull run is Bitcoin halving, so here we explain why this event is very important for the entire blockchain network and what are the main advantages that Bitcoin users can expect when bitcoin halving happens. What is Bitcoin Halving...
New Square Report Shows Continued Shift Towards Cashless Payments Due to Pandemic, but UK Public Not Ready to Let Go of Cash Yet
In the UK, over the past 12 months, the share of Square businesses that are cashless has risen by more than 4x. This time last year only one in 10 UK businesses using Square were cashless, whereas now nearly 5 in 10 are cashless. This is according to Square’s Cash and the Pandemic 2.0 report which takes a look back over the last year at what’s changed, what’s new, and what could be here to stay when it comes to how small businesses in the UK... more
Credit Europe Bank Improves Usability of Payments in a Mobile App With Scanning Technology by Smart Engines
Member of FIBA Group, Credit Europe Bank (Russia) Ltd. has integrated a software product Smart Code Engine for QR codes scanning in a mobile app. With its help, bank customers are able to make various payments by QR codes, such as bills, invoices, receipts and fines.
Crypto Hedgefund ARK36 Invests in Concordium Compliant Private Blockchain
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
Danish-owned cryptocurrency investment fund ARK36 has participated in a private sale of GTU tokens issued by Concordium, a new, state-of-the-art blockchain project built for business and focused on regulatory compliance and privacy.
Worldline Achieves Another Excellent Score of 88/100, Reflecting Its Transparency and CSR Performance
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, is proud to announce it has been awarded another first-class score of 88/100 in this year’s evaluation by the extra-financial rating agency Gaïa Rating. Over the past three years, Worldline has improved its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance by 6 points, according to Gaïa Rating’s ESG evaluation.
Bitcoin Monopoly: How to Put Bitcoin’s Insane Value in to Context
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies
Team at table top retailer Rogue Games play with Bitcoin values to show how insane the value of cryptocurrency is For most of us, Monopoly is our first introduction to the wonderful world of finances and capitalism. It’s where we learn that money does make the world (or top hats and thimbles at least) go around, and that, sometimes, it's actually kind of fun to bankrupt your friends and family.
Credorax Appoints Achiya Fried to Chief Commercial Officer in Strategic Move to Meet Ambitious Growth Plans for 2021
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
Credorax, leading smart payments provider and merchant acquiring bank, has today announced the appointment of Achiya Fried as Chief Commercial Officer. With almost 25 years’ experience in acquiring, ecommerce and sales and marketing across the cards and payments sector, Fried will be leading on Credorax’s market growth strategy, while heading up the business development and commercial teams.
FinTech Challenger, GerliPay, Selects Nets for Multinational Digital Payments
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Gerlionti S.A., a company in Luxembourg, currently in the process of obtaining an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence under the GerliPay trademark, has selected Nets Estonia to support the development of its new digital payment system, GerliPay.
ECOMMPAY Cautions Merchants to Improve Fraud Prevention Strategies After Tracking Three-Fold Increase in Fraud Attempts During Pandemic
International payment service provider and direct bank card acquirer, ECOMMPAY, has today cautioned that attempted fraud levels have increased by two to three times their previous levels during the past year.
One in Three Brits Feel Confident Trying New Digital Payment Methods
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Holly Coventry, Director, Pay with Bank transfer, commented on the findings: “This research clearly demonstrates that the extra time - and money - spent online over the course of the pandemic has heightened consumer awareness of the pain points in existing payment processes. As e-commerce will continue to be critical for many businesses, they need to make sure they’re staying on top of the latest payments tech.
