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Just Published: PCI DSS v4.0.1

PCI Security Standards

To address stakeholder feedback and questions received since PCI DSS v4.0 was published in March 2022, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a limited revision to the standard, PCI DSS v4.0.1. It includes corrections to formatting and typographical errors and clarifies the focus and intent of some of the requirements and guidance.

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FedNow zooms past RTP participation in inaugural year

Payments Dive

The Federal Reserve’s nascent instant payments system has collected hundreds of bank participants across the country in its first year of operations, although a few major banks are holdouts.

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Swift Works on Enabling Real-Time Exchange of Digital Assets and Payments

Fintech News

Swift, the global financial messaging network, is actively working to incorporate regulated digital assets and currencies onto its platform. Building on a series of successful experiments, Swift is advancing efforts to create practical solutions that will enable its members to transact seamlessly with digital assets. A key focus of these developments is testing multi-ledger Delivery-versus-Payment (DvP) and Payment-versus-Payment (PvP) transactions.

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Nacha Welcomes Stronghold as a Preferred Partner

NACHA

RESTON, Virginia, Aug. 8, 2024 – Today, Nacha announced Stronghold as a Preferred Partner for ACH Experience and ISO 20022. Stronghold joins a select group of innovators that Nacha recognizes for offering products and services that align with Nacha's core strategies to advance the ACH Network.

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How To Drive Retail Results With Integrated Tech And UX Design

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

Navigating the complexities of e-commerce requires more than just the right technology - It demands a holistic strategy that aligns platform capabilities with customer- centric design and marketing. This webinar will provide a roadmap for building a robust e-commerce strategy, guiding you through key decisions from platform selection to creating user experiences that convert, and leverage digital marketing to reach and retail customers.

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Thunes and Commercial Bank Kyrgyzstan | MBANK Forge Strategic Alliance to Transform Cross-Border Payments in the Silk-Road Region

Fintech Finance

Thunes , the Smart Superhighway for money movement around the world, is proud to welcome OJCS “Commercial Bank Kyrgyzstan” | MBANK as a Member of the Thunes Direct Global Network. This collaboration allows MBANK to connect businesses and individuals in Kyrgyzstan directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts around the world, to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and 80 currencies in a faster, more convenient, and reliable way.

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Workbench: A new way to debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration

Stripe

We’ve been testing a suite of new developer tools over the last year with thousands of users, including Slack and Notion. Today, we’re announcing that the first is available to all new users by default: Stripe Workbench, our new home for developers within the Dashboard that helps you debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration.

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Project Ensemble: Hong Kong Embraces Asset Tokenisation With New Sandbox

The Fintech Times

The concept of tokenisation has several meanings and promises to drive a seismic shift in global finance in a number of ways. Looking to harness this potential, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) launched ‘Project Ensemble’ in March earlier this year, a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) project, to support the development of the tokenisation market in the region.

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Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses

TechCrunch Fintech

The Dubai-based startup, which now counts 50,000 retail and business customers in the UAE, has netted $22 million led by Altos Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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CMA confirms full completion of Open Banking Roadmap, unlocking a new era of financial innovation 

Open Banking

Open Banking Limited (OBL) is pleased to announce that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially confirmed the full completion of the final Roadmap for Open Banking. This milestone, building on the “substantial completion” announced in 2023, means that all nine banking providers mandated by the CMA under the Retail Banking Market Investigation Order (the CMA Order) have successfully completed the Roadmap and associated required functionality to offer the full suite o

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Gen AI reduces agent response time by 70% at Discover

Bank Automation

Discover Financial Services is tapping generative AI to speed up call center agent response and strengthen client experience. Using Google Cloud’s AI platform, Vertex AI, Discover has reduced response times for call center agents by 70%, Szabolcs Paldy, senior vice president of enterprise operations at Discover, told Bank Automation News.

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How to Select the Perfect Payments Partner: 7 Keys for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms for an informational webinar about how to select the ideal payments provider for your platform! This session highlights the 7 key criteria for assessing payments partners and maximizing the value of your investment. From evaluating technology and business development programs to understanding support and compliance, this webinar will equip you with a comprehensive evaluation framework and strategy for

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Meet the Finalists of the 2024 Finovate Awards!

Finovate

After months of deliberation, the finalists for the 2024 Finovate Awards have been selected! In categories ranging from “Best Alternative Investments Solution” to “Top Emerging Fintech Company,” more than 130 innovative companies and individuals have made the short-list. We are now set for an exciting autumn showdown when winners are announced at Finovate Fall 2024 in New York in September.

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JPMorgan fires up biometric payments processing

Payments Dive

The biggest U.S. bank is piloting payments processing for biometric transactions, with plans to use it at the hamburger chain Whataburger, which lets customers pay with a face scan.

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South Korean Tourists Can Now Pay with QR Codes in Cambodia

Fintech News

Cambodia and South Korea have officially launched a new cross-border payment system. This system, currently in its first phase, allows customers of Jeonbuk Bank in South Korea to make seamless payments to merchants in Cambodia using Bakong (KHQR) QR codes. The launch ceremony, held in Phnom Penh, was attended by senior officials, including Dr. Chea Serey, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, and Kim Tae Hyun, Vice President of Jeonbuk Bank.

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Jiangxi Bank of China goes under

The Paypers

Jiangxi Bank of China has gone under, as the banking sector is currently facing a full-scape crisis with financial institutions being absorbed into larger enterprises.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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ACI Worldwide Collaborates with Red Hat to Deliver Enterprise Payments for the Cloud Era

Fintech Finance

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), an innovator in global payments technology, today announced a collaboration with Red Hat Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to make ACI’s cloud-native Enterprise Payments Platform available on any cloud infrastructure. With this collaboration, ACI will help customers ease their migration to the cloud to better adapt to the rapidly evolving digital economy and power the next generation of payment services.

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Ledger: Stripe’s system for tracking and validating money movement

Stripe

In this blog post, we’ll share technical details on how we built this state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, and describe how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.

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Bank-backed DLT-based CBDC platform Project MBridge reaches MVP stage

Finextra

The Bank for International Settlements says it multi-central bank CBDC platform, Project mBrige, is ready to accept value added products and new use cases as it reaches minimum viable product stage (MVP).

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RAKBANK Completes International CBDC Transaction Using eCNY and Digital Dirham

The Fintech Times

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have a lot of potential to uproot the cross-border payments market. The latest move by the National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (RAKBANK) highlights this. RAKBANK has successfully exchanged a remittance using China’s digital Yuan (eCNY) in exchange for the Digital Dirham, the UAE’s CBDC. The cross-border payment was completed using the Central Bank of the UAE’s (CBUAE) mBridge platform and marks a significant step forward in the international

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Top Strategies to Future-Proof & Sustain Your Merchant Services Portfolio

Build a sustainable merchant services portfolio with practical strategies to ensure long-term success. Diversify across industries to spread risk and stabilize income, balancing high-risk and low-risk clients for a robust mix. Combine large and small merchants to create a resilient payment portfolio, leveraging each type's strengths. Foster long-term relationships through exceptional service and personalized support.

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Evolve Bank says ransomware gang stole personal data on millions of customers

TechCrunch Fintech

Evolve has confirmed that the personal data of at least 7.6 million people was accessed during LockBit's ransomware attack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Same Day ACH and B2B Propel ACH Network Growth in the First Quarter

NACHA

Same Day ACH and B2B Propel ACH Network Growth in the First Quarter mkahn@nacha.

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AI for cybersecurity: Fighting fire with fire

Bank Automation

Financial institutions are looking to AI and generative AI to mitigate the rising risk of cyberattacks as fraudsters take advantage of the technology.

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Credit cards users struggle with inflation

Payments Dive

JD Power’s annual credit card survey found that more than half of U.S. credit card users don’t pay their balances in full every month, and less than half are considered financially healthy.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How embedded payments are changing the way we pay

Payments Dive

As payments technology advances, more companies are embedding the payments process in websites and apps. Here’s a primer on how this trend is advancing and changing the payments arena.

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Fed seeks 8,000 financial institutions for FedNow

Payments Dive

About 700 financial institutions have connected to the Fed’s instant payment network since last July, with at least 1,000 more in the pipeline, a FedNow official said this week.

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Card networks to implement gun code in California: report

Payments Dive

Visa, Mastercard and American Express are moving forward with use of a new gun merchant category code for credit card purchases in California, according to CBS News.

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Surcharging doesn’t have to be a bad word

Payments Dive

“The time has come to rethink surcharging not as a necessary evil but as a strategic advantage that can benefit both businesses and customers,” writes a Billtrust executive.

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Loyalty 101: How To Turn Browsers Into Buyers For Lasting Engagement

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton, Danielle Wyllie, and Kailey Holmes

Say goodbye to one-size-fits-all retail, and say hello to experiences that keep your customers coming back for more! Customer loyalty isn’t just earned - it’s cultivated through meaningful engagement with the help of data. This webinar will take you behind the scenes of how top retailers turn customer data into personalized experiences that drive engagement and retention.

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Congress members egg on US payments system expansion

Payments Dive

A bipartisan group is nudging the Federal Reserve to explain why it can’t speed up a plan to extend the operational availability of the U.S. payments system.

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Real-time consumer payments need standards to rise

Payments Dive

To make instant payments a reality for consumers, the payments industry must work together to develop a common framework for the transactions, top industry executives say.

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Are digital wallets safer than debit cards?

Payments Dive

Research shows young people see digital wallets as a more secure option than debit and credit cards. Cybersecurity professionals mostly agree, despite caveats.

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Consumers tap credit cards, loans to manage inflation: Fed report

Payments Dive

Gen Z and millennials were the age groups most likely to use loans and credit cards to respond to higher prices, a Federal Reserve research report said.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.