3 Out of 4 Consumers Call For Payment Holiday Extension as Deadline Looms
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments
A new survey from digital payments expert, PayPoint, sees 75% of respondents calling for the Government’s payment holiday deadline to be extended to match or exceed the furlough scheme. The support scheme allowing consumers to take payment holidays from credit repayments has helped countless families manage the financial impact of COVID-19. However, the scheme comes to an end on 31st March, withdrawing essential support for families who may... more
Paysafe’s Skrill Expands Crypto Offering to US with Coinbase
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments, Cryptocurrencies
Paysafe, a leading specialized payments platform, today announced that its Skrill digital wallet has expanded its cryptocurrency offering to the U.S. in partnership with Coinbase, the digital currency platform provider. The deal sees Coinbase provide a new cryptocurrency white label solution to Skrill, continuing the digital wallet’s U.S. expansion by enabling customers across 37 states and territories to easily buy and sell multiple... more
Cashflows Strengthens Leadership Team with Three Strategic Hires
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments
Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for merchants to accept payments, today announces it is strengthening its leadership team with three new hires. The injection of new talent comes at a time when Cashflows is expanding its solutions to help businesses deliver settlement as fast as possible and maintain a healthy cash flow. Francesco Tirelli joins as Chief Customer Officer and will manage Cashflows’ sales and customer success function.
Curve and Equifax UK Partner to Deliver Consumer Credit Solution to Curve Credit
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Credit Cards, Data
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.
Payment App Osu Raises £2.25M in its Mission to Support the UK’s Self-employed
- 4 years 2 months ago
- Fundraising News, Payments, IT Innovations
Osu, the payment app for the UK’s self-employed, has today announced the close of a £2.25million seed round, led by early-stage experts Creandum, to fund further growth to reach 10,000 customers this year. Launched in 2020 by co-founders Noam Nevo, Daniel Scott and Alon Zion, Osu is transforming the way the self-employed accept and manage their payments through its seamless and intuitive app.
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.
