UniCredit Rolls Out its Cross-border Instant Payments Solution, Starting with Italy and Germany
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
UniCredit goes live with instant payments in Italy and Germany and becomes the first bank to offer the service in the German market The bank’s first payment was executed in the morning of 21 November between Germany and Italy
SEPA Instant Payments Is Live
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
SEPA Instant Payments (SCT inst) is the first instant payment scheme to be inter-operable in a region as large as SEPA and is a response to European customer needs for faster payments. From November 2017, customers of participating banks will be able to send money to accounts in 10 seconds regardless of the SEPA countries involved in the transaction, and can do this 24/7/365.
SIA LAUNCHES A NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR INSTANT PAYMENTS
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
SIA launches “SIA EasyWay”, the new digital platform which allows banks and other payment service providers (PSPs) to manage at European level the instant payments available from 21 November on EBA Clearing’s RT1 infrastructure developed by SIA, in addition to all other SEPA payment and collection instruments.
FSS AadhaarPay Wins Best Alternative Payments Awards at Payments Awards UK
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
FSS AadhaarPay, a biometric-enabled merchant payment acceptance solution, has won the Payments Awards UK in the “Best Alternative Payment Award” category. The awards were announced at the 5th Edition of the Annual Payments Awards, at a prestigious awards ceremony in London.
Paysafe Picks Up Two High Profile Awards at the UK Payments Awards
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Paysafe, a leading global payments provider, has been named winner of two high profile payments awards in the UK at the prestigious ‘UK Payment Awards’ event last week. The first accolade the company scooped on the night was for being the UK’s ‘Best Merchant Acquirer/ Processor’. Paysafe then earned further recognition when Andrea Dunlop, Paysafe’s CEO of Acquiring & Card Solutions, was named the UK’s ‘Payments Pioneer’.
BancoEstado and SumUp to Start Mobile Card Acceptance in Chile
SumUp, the leading financial technology provider, and BancoEstado de Chile, the largest national bank of Chile, today announce the launch of a joint venture offering mobile card acceptance to small businesses.
Telenor’s Valyou Receives UNCDF Support for Financial Inclusion in Myanmar
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Money Transfers
Valyou, a service from Telenor Group, will provide low-cost international remittance services to Myanmar in its effort to promote greater financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.
Volante Technologies and North African Payments Expert eVision Announce Partnership
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with eVision to deliver efficient and agile payment solutions across the Egyptian and North African banking and finance markets.
ACI Worldwide and Dedagroup Bring Real-Time Payments to Italy in Response to Increasing Consumer Demand
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions and
Currenxie Laucnhes Trade Finance Service for Amazon Sellers
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Currenxie, fast growing cross-border payments provider, which counts Chinese technology giant Tencent amongst its clients has announced the launch of its Trade Finance Solution for Amazon Sellers.
Is Bitcoin Becoming Mainstream?
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Bitcoins
Between November 2016 and November 2017, Bitcoin saw its market-cap increase by 1034% to a record breaking value of $128,982,906,067 on coinmarketcap.com. November 2017 also saw Bitcoin hit a new all-time high against the British Pound and US Dollar, with xe.com valuing a single bitcoin at £5889.18 and $7720.66 respectively. With bitcoin’s market expanding, value increasing, and its near-global adoption favoured for its decentralised system, it’... more
Ingenico finalizes Bambora acquisition
Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, today announced the closing of Bambora’s acquisition, after obtaining approval from the relevant regulatory and antitrust authorities. The acquisition of this fast-growing player in payment services represents a key milestone in Ingenico Group’s strategy as it:
Volante Technologies and open banking experts Open Vector announce partnership
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with Open Vector, an advisory firm specialising in providing open banking consultancy services. The partnership between Open Vector and Volante Technologies creates an end-to-end service for the global banking industry looking to adopt open... more
Bango Extends Carrier Billing for Amazon Customers in Japan
- 7 years 9 months ago
- e-Payments
Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile payments company, announces that following the successful launch of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) for Amazon retail customers in Japan (June 2017), it has expanded DCB availability to Japanese customers of Amazon Prime and Prime Student membership programmes.
Rambus Teams with Eftpos for Android Pay in Australia
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Today Rambus Inc. announced that eftpos, the Australian domestic debit network, is using the Rambus Token Service Provider (TSP) technology to securely digitize payment cards to support Android Pay. The proven and trusted Rambus TSP platform enables eftpos to maintain consumer data securely through tokenization, which allows the replacement of sensitive data with unique reference numbers so information is not compromised.
