Israeli Team Seeks Account Switching Insight from Bacs
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Key people behind a planned new Israeli bank account switching service turned to the experienced team behind the UK’s Current Account Switch Service (CASS) to tap into their knowledge and expertise.
Samsung Pay Expands To Four More Countries
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Samsung Electronics today celebrates the continued growth and enthusiasm for Samsung Pay around the world by expanding in four markets over two days. Samsung Pay officially launches in Sweden and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and enters early access in Hong Kong and Switzerland.
Thames Card Technology Capitalises on Strong 2016 with £2m Machinery Investment
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
In response to increasing customer demand for its payments, gift, loyalty and membership card services,Thames Card Technology has invested £2m+ in state of the art personalisation equipment. The equipment increases Thames’ card personalisation capacity by 60%, brings loyalty keyfob encapsulation in-house and delivers greater efficiency. The investments follow success in 2016, where Thames doubled its budgeted profit expectation.
123ContactForm Now Supports Square Payments
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
123ContactForm, which has helped more than a million users worldwide build online forms and surveys, announced today that it now supports Square payments. Square, a leading payment gateway that also enables merchants to accept payments with a physical device for swiping credit cards, handles millions of transactions across Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dwolla and Plaid team on Tokenised ACH Payment Integration
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Today, Plaid and Dwolla announced a new partnership to offer a fully tokenized ACH payment integration. The partnership makes it possible to tokenize account and routing numbers and authenticate user bank accounts through Plaid and start accepting Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments in minutes with Dwolla’s ACH API.
Starling Bank Adopts Pay by Bank app
Pay by Bank app has announced a partnership with Starling Bank that will launch its market leading mobile payments service to Starling Bank’s customers. Starling Bank is the first challenger bank to commit to Pay by Bank app’s innovative technology, which enables customers to make real-time payments directly from their existing mobile banking app on their smartphone or tablet.
Garanti Bank Romania Opts for Allevo's Open Source Solution for Processing Payments
Garanti Bank Romania selected FinTP, Allevo’s open source solution to connect to SWIFTNet, ensuring compliance to SEPA standards and regulations, in order to optimize its operations. The bank continues, as such, to grow rapidly on the Romanian market, offering better services to its customers.
Token announces $15.7 million in Series A funding
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider that enables banks to generate revenue from PSD2, today announced $15.7 million in Series A funding from major investors including Octopus Ventures, EQT Ventures and OP Financial Group.
Dovetail and IBM Sign Watson Partnership
Dovetail, the provider of best-in-class payments and liquidity management solutions, today announced a global strategic partnership with IBM to offer Dovetail payment solutions in combination with IBM’s Watson Financial Services products.
UK Online Card Spending Increased by a Quarter
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Internet spending has jumped by more than a quarter in the last two years, a new report analysing how the UK uses payment cards online reveals. Card spending on the internet totalled £154 billion in the UK in 2016, averaging £422 million a day, figures from The UK Cards Association show. This is a rise of 28 per cent since 2014, when online spending amounted to £120 billion. Analysis finds one in four card purchases online is on entertainment,... more
UBS Twint Mobile Payments App Becomes Available
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
UBS Twint is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The free app is ideal for everybody with a UBS account or a Swiss credit card of any kind: Twint payments are debited directly to your bank account or credit card.
Sionic Mobile Hires Nat Milburn to Manage Chase Contract
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Sionic Mobile, provider of the fast-growing Mobile Rewards Marketplace and ION Commerce Engine™ (ICE) mobile loyalty and payments platform, has named Nat Milburn as managing director of Enterprise Development.
Suncoast CU to Reveal BIG's SetIt Credit Card Management Tool
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Today best Innovation Group (BIG), a credit union innovation catalyst with 20 years of payments experience, announced that Suncoast Credit Union has signed to offer SetIt Credit — a card management tool designed to improve cardholder experience in an easy-to-use, secure platform.
Dovetail Finalizes Instant Payment Tests With Intesa Sanpaolo and EBA Clearing
Dovetail, the provider of best-in-class payments and liquidity management solutions, has today announced the successful completion of business level flow testing with the EBA Clearing pan-European instant payment infrastructure platform.
Icon Connects Instant Payment Framework to The Clearing House
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Payments, Consultancy
Today Icon Solutions, a leading provider of technology solutions and real-time payments consultancy has just reported the enhancement of its Instant Payments Framework (IPF) product to support connectivity to The Clearing House (TCH), accelerating US banks’ access to real-time payments.
