Anchorage OCC Licence Sparks New Banking Future - and $1M Bitcoin?
The author is Maxim Bederov. The once strict lines separating traditional finance and crypto finance are melting away. And it could lead to once-unthinkble cryptoasset prices much sooner than any of us believed possible.
Global Processing Services and Currencycloud Partner to Offer Complete, Enterprise-grade, Cross-border Payments Solution
Multi-award-winning payments processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), today announces that it has joined forces with Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, to widen access to cross-border payments for financial institutions and fintechs, providing a passport to a post-COVID world.
Cambridge Global Payments Selects Crown Agents Bank for Payments in Asia and Africa
Crown Agents Bank Ltd (“CAB”) is pleased to announce they have been selected as a new banking partner by Cambridge Global Payments (“Cambridge”), a FLEETCOR company and a provider of integrated cross-border payments and currency risk management solutions. The partnership allows Cambridge to expand its global banking footprint to facilitate payments across emerging and frontier markets in APAC and Africa.
Fintech Disruptor Reach Gains Momentum with Appointment of David Mays as Independent Board Member
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
Reach, the global payment localization provider, has further strengthened its senior management team by appointing leading cross-border ecommerce stalwart, Dave Mays, as an independent board member.
Bitcoin-inspired Cyber Attacks Surge by Nearly 200% Since October 2020
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies
Phishing impersonations and business email compromise attacks designed to steal victims’ bitcoin surged by 192% between October 2020 and May 2021, closely following the rising demand and increasing price of bitcoin over the last eight months [FIGURE 1], according to new analysis by Barracuda Networks, the trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, in their most recent Threat Spotlight research.
Klarna Selects Liberis to Provide Revenue-based Finance to E-commerce Companies Across 17 Countries
- 3 years 11 months ago
- APIs, E-Commerce, Payments
Global embedded business finance platform Liberis has today announced it has been selected by
FTL Finance Goes Live with Scienaptic
Leading AI-powered credit decisioning disruptor, Scienaptic today announced that home improvement lender, FTL Finance has completed implementation and is now live on its platform. The implementation will enable the company to make better, stronger credit decisioning for its borrowers through next-generation, transformative technology powered by AI to support both contractors’ and homeowners’ financing needs for repairs and remodeling.
A Digital Currency Revolution is Upon us a New Dawn of Fintech Approaches. Paysend New White Paper Explores the Opportunities for Digital Money in the World After Covid
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Covid-19, Payments, e-Payments
Paysend announces that the latest White Paper entitled Digital Money in a Post-covid world has been published and is available now. Head of Branding, Alberto Macciani, digs deep into the prolific expansion of digital money over the last 12 months and demonstrates just how we will see the landscape of financial technology shift, revolutionising the way we manage our money on a daily basis.
Fake Driving Licences Account for Over Half of Fraudulent Attempts to Open Digital Wallet Accounts in the UK
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Digital Identity, E-Wallets
Fourthline, the digital identity and verification specialist, has released findings from its Digital Identity Fraud Analysis Tool, which looked specifically at the different ways fraudsters have attempted to create digital wallet accounts in the UK over the last six months. The UK Digital Wallet ID Fraud Pulse, analysed data over the period January 2021 to June 2021, to reveal criminals most commonly used counterfeit driving licences when... more
Splitit Partners with Leading Middle East BNPL Provider tabby
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Platform Technology, Payments
Splitit, the company empowering consumers to use their existing credit to spread payments over time, announced a partnership with tabby, the leading Middle East Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider. tabby will integrate Splitit’s instalment payment platform through a white-label solution to allow tabby’s merchants to offer instalments on credit cards.
Virtual Card Transaction Values to Increase by 370% Globally in 5 Years
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Payments, Money Transfers, Credit Cards
Pollinate Launches Filmmaker Competition in Collaboration with Mastercard to Spotlight Small Business Ingenuity
Pollinate, the global fintech that partners with banks to help business customers succeed and grow, is launching “Ingenious,” a filmmaker competition spotlighting small businesses, in collaboration with Mastercard. “Ingenious” will celebrate the ingenuity of small business owners around the globe through stories of how small businesses have used technology to drive forward during the pandemic.
Scotland Yard Bitcoin Seizure Story
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Joshua Scigala, CEO of the TheStandard.io, a new DeFi lending protocol and Founder of the bitcoin/gold exchange, Vaultoro said,
ACI Worldwide Fraud Management Lauded by Retail Systems Awards
- 3 years 11 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Payments
ACI’s incremental learning technology—part of its award-winning merchant fraud management solution—recognized as “Artificial Intelligence Project of the Year”
Visa to Acquire Open Banking Platform Tink in €1.8Bn Deal
- 3 years 11 months ago
- APIs, Open Banking, Payments, Banking
Visa today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tink, a European open banking platform that enables financial institutions, fintechs and merchants to build tailored financial management tools, products and services for European consumers and businesses based on their financial data. Visa will pay total financial consideration of 1.8 billion Euros, inclusive of cash and retention incentives, to acquire Tink.
