KURVE and PayPoint Offer App-Based PAYG Metering for Heat Network Adopters
KURVE, the UK’s first web-based smart metering solution for heat networks, has joined forces with digital payment expert, PayPoint, to offer customers the facility to top-up pay-as-you-go (PAYG) energy accounts quickly and easily via the customer’s preferred payment method.
NatWest to Help Businesses Replace Cheque Use with Open Banking Payments
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Open Banking, e-Payments, IT Innovations
NatWest has today announced the launch of a major development to its flagship open banking payments service, Payit by NatWest, that will allow businesses to send payments directly to customers without needing their bank details – an industry first. The feature aims to replace the use of cheques and bank transfers when sending money to customers, allowing for instant payments to be made when issuing refunds or customer service payments, as well... more
Compass Plus First to Test New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Russia
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments
Compass Plus has become the first company in Russia to test Oracle’s newest cloud infrastructure update - successfully completing the stress testing of its cloud-native open development payments platform, TranzAxis, using the new Oracle Exadata Cloud Service X8M.
Nets Integrates PayPal Into E-Commerce Checkouts
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Nets customers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will find PayPal available on the Nets e-commerce platform, Easy, along with cards and local payment options for SMBs. Nordic merchants – particularly those with an international customer base – will benefit from a broader range of payment alternatives presented in a seamless customer interface.
TreeCard Raises $5.1 Million Led by EQT Ventures to Drive Sustainable Spending Through Reforestation
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Credit Cards
TreeCard -- the world’s first wooden Mastercard™ payment card that plants trees with everyday spending -- has raised a $5.12 million seed round led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp and Episode 1. Angel investors including Matt Robinson (the founder of GoCardless) and Charlie Delingpole (founder of ComplyAdvantage) also participated in the round.
AIRSOFT Team Steps Up To Meet Broker Challenges
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrencies
2020 posed numerous challenges for brokers, banks and fintechs around the globe. Staff working remotely, trader volumes increasing, volatility at an all-time high and the emergence of new tradable products were just a few. Brokers scrambled to reassemble their remote team and handle associated security and tech concerns. In direct response to the needs of brokers, AIRSOFT Technology LTD announced a major rebrand.
VibePay Continues the March to Bring Open Banking to Consumers
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
VibePay has today announced it is bringing together AISP and PISP, leveraging its ability to practically apply Open Banking technology and take it to consumers. VibePay users can now connect all of their bank accounts to the app, giving them the power to view all of their balances, transactions and make payments in one place, regardless of who they bank with.
Valtatech Brings Centsoft’s E-Invoicing Solutions to APAC
Financial process automation experts, Valta Technology Group (Valtatech), has partnered with Centsoft, the global leader in accounts payable (AP) automation and invoice workflow management, to drive back office digital transformation among small and medium sized enterprise organizations in the Asia Pacific region.
Primer Launches Primer Connect: the First Open App Framework for Payments -- Used by Klarna and GoCardless
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Primer, the UK-founded fintech backed by Accel and Balderton, today announces the launch of Primer Connect, an open app framework that enables third-party payments services to build integrations, or ‘connections’, on top of Primer’s unified checkout and payments APIs.
TrueLayer Hires Ben Foster as VP of Engineering
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments, Banking, Data, People Moves
TrueLayer, the leading technology company building financial infrastructure that’s open to everyone, has announced that former SVP of Engineering at Checkout.com, Ben Foster, has joined the firm as its VP of Engineering.
HUBUC Teams Up With IDEMIA to Provide Dynamic CVV MOTION CODE™ Card to Help Fight Fraud
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Embedded financial services provider HUBUC announces the launch of payment cards underpinned by MOTION CODE™ - a dynamic CVV technology – from IDEMIA, the world leader in Augmented Identity, for online shopping across Europe.
Mastercard and ACI Worldwide Announce First Real-time Payments Infrastructure Collaboration With Cámara De Compensación Electrónica (CCE)
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Mastercard and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software and solutions, today announced that Cámara de Compensación Electrónica (CCE) will utilize the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform to accelerate financial institutions’ access to Mastercard’s Instant Payment Service, the new real-time payments managed service that will enter Industry Testing in Peru later thi
PayPoint Helps Businesses Tackle PCI Compliance Hurdles
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Digital payments expert PayPoint, is urging businesses to overcome the financial challenges of achieving PCI compliance by embracing its platform, MultiPay. A recent Verizon Business 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (2020 DBIR) has revealed a worrying picture of businesses failing to protect their cardholder data as a result of abandoning Payment Card Industry (PCI) accreditation. However,
TransferWise is now Wise
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
TransferWise today announces its renaming to Wise. Originally launched in 2011 as a money transfer service for people, the company has expanded to build a cross-border payments network helping to make international banking cheaper, faster and more pleasant for its 10 million personal and business customers.
Tweeq Signs Partnership Deals With Mastercard and Paymentology to Offer an Unparalleled Consumer Experience
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Tweeq, a Saudi fintech which aims to provide a feature-rich spending account for individuals and SMEs, has signed exclusive partnership agreements with Mastercard, the leading technology company in the global payments industry and Paymentology, a leading digital commerce service and payment solution provider.
