Payments

Tesco Bank Extends Tsys Payments Agreement

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Tsys announced today that it has extended its payments agreement with Tesco Bank to continue supporting the bank’s credit card business in the UK. Under the agreement, TSYS will provide full customer account management services on its industry leading TS2® platform. Tesco Bank aims to be the bank for people who shop at Tesco and provides 8.1 million accounts and policies to customers. The bank offers a full range of core retail banking and... more

Wirecard Signs Global Mobile Payments Processing Partnership with VEON

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Wirecard and VEON have signed a global payments and processing agreement that will see Wirecard handling the airtime top-up as well as third party payments functionality on VEON’s personal internet platform. This means customers will be able to upload and update their mobile payment accounts on-the-go and within a few seconds.

Finastra and SIA Team Up to Expand Real-time Payments in Europe

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Finastra today announced that it is partnering with SIA, European leader in payment infrastructures and services, to provide real-time payment capabilities to financial institutions operating all over Europe. This will enable financial institutions to use the Finastra (formerly D+H) payments solutions to connect via SIAnet to RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European Instant Payments infrastructure.

PayPal Small Business Financing Scheme Advances £400 Million in Working Capital

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Today PayPal revealed its small business financing scheme has provided more than £400 million to British small businesses.

FuturePay Collaborates with Salesforce Partner Programme

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

FuturePay today announced that it has joined the Salesforce Partner Program in support of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the fastest path to unified commerce. Commerce Cloud enables brands to provide personalized experiences for shoppers that span web, mobile, social and in-store. And now, as part of the world’s No. 1 CRM platform – Salesforce – brands can deliver completely unified experiences for customers that extend beyond commerce to include... more

Samsung Partners with Cuscal to Bring Mobile Payments to Oz FIs

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Samsung Electronics Australia today announced a partnership with Cuscal, Australia’s leading independent provider of payment solutions that will enable 38 financial institutions to offer Samsung Pay. Samsung Pay is a secure and easy-to-use mobile payments service available on compatible Samsung devices including the Gear S3 smartwatch and the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones1.

Form3 Partners with Starling Bank to Provide Real-Time Access to Faster Payments

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Form3, the cloud based end-to-end secure standard for global payments processing, today announced a partnership with Starling Bank, the first mobile-only bank to launch a new current account in the UK and 13th member of Faster Payments. This will further enhance the Form3 Payments-as-a-Service platform by providing an end-to-end managed service for UK real-time payments. For the first time in the UK, this will allow clients a real-time Faster... more

Worldpay Releases Entirely Downloadable Card Terminal for Smartphones

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Worldpay, the UK’s leading payment processor, has announced the launch of the first ever extended-trial of a software only card payment mPOS (mobile point of sale).

Online Card Spending to Double by 2021, Reaching $6 trillion Worldwide

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Research from RBR finds convenience and security are driving rapid growth in e-commerce card payments Online transactions increasingly convenient Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, a highly regarded annual survey of the global payment cards sector, reveals that the value of e-commerce card payments made worldwide grew by 26% during 2015 to reach $2.7 trillion, and represented 12% of all card expenditure. Key factors driving this... more

Coupa’s Procure-to-Pay Solution Selected by Jabil

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) has chosen Coupa’s Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solution for Global Procurement Technology Optimisation across Asia, Europe and the Americas in what is an East-to-West deployment strategy.

Contactless Now the Favoured Way to Pay for British Shoppers as Spending Leaps 34 Per Cent Since the Start of 2017

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Data released by Barclaycard today as part of its quarterly Contactless Spending Index shows that ‘touch and go’ payments continue to surge in popularity with spending up by more than a third (34 per cent) since the turn of the year*.

Ovum Research: PSD2 and Instant Payments to Drive a 37% Decline in Online Card Volumes by 2027

7 years 5 months ago
Payments

Ovum, the market-leading research and consulting firm, for the first time quantifies the detrimental effect Instant Payments and PSD2 will have on traditional credit and debit card payments. The research “Instant payments and the post-PSD2 landscape”, commissioned by Icon Solutions, publishes the only quantitative insights into how PSD2 will be the catalyst

New Cryptocurrencies Collaborates with AvaTrade

7 years 5 months ago
Cryptocurrencies

AvaTrade, the leading forex and CFD broker, has added to their already rich portfolio cryptocurrency pairs with exceptional conditions - Ethereum Classic vs the American dollar (ETCUSD) and Bitcoin vs Euro (BTCEUR) as a first step, with more to follow.

BitConnect Coin Outdoes Ethereum's Performance for 6 Months That Followed the ICO

7 years 5 months ago
Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies

The emerging cryptocurrency created by UK based BitConnect, BitConnect Coin (BCC) has registered a phenomenal growth since its inception six months ago by outperforming the growth of the world's top altcoin, Ethereum. The new cryptocurrency has witnessed its value increase dramatically since its November 2016 ICO.