Mon.Sep 16, 2024

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You Thought You Knew Virtual Cards…Think Again

Payments Next

By John Toman, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Pivot Payables Commercial virtual cards have been available for years as a payment method The post You Thought You Knew Virtual Cards…Think Again first appeared on Payments NEXT.

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Citi COO relieved of responsibility for data overhaul following $136 million fine

Finextra

Citigroup is stripping chief operating officer Anand Selva of his responsibility for data compliance after the bank was hit with $136 million in fines for its failure to address long-standing deficiencies in risk management and data governance.

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CFPB sues credit card company over excessive fees

Payments Dive

The agency says Horizon Card Services violated the Truth in Lending Act by charging fees as high as 60% of a customer’s credit limit, and all but refusing to cancel their cards.

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APP fraud developments: A risk-based approach to delayed payments

The Payments Association

The FCA's latest guidance proposes a risk-based approach allowing payment service providers to delay outgoing payments to combat APP fraud, balancing fraud prevention with consumer protection.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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UnionPay, AXS to Ease Bill Payments for Mainland Chinese Residents in Singapore

Fintech News

UnionPay has partnered with payment solutions provider AXS to introduce a new bill payment service tailored for Mainland Chinese residents living in Singapore. By leveraging the UnionPay app, users can now conveniently pay various bills, including household expenses, educational fees, electricity, condo management fees, season parking, town council fees, healthcare, and home services, directly from their Mainland China-issued UnionPay cards.

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Visa, Mastercard enable rail transit payment in Beijing

Payments Dive

The major card networks enabled systems that allow international travelers in China to use their cards to pay for Beijing rail transit as of last week.

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Finastra integrates with Prelim to streamline account opening

Finextra

Finastra, a global provider of financial services software applications, today announced an integration with Prelim, an industry-leading fintech, for its Finastra Phoenix core solution, enhancing the retail and commercial deposit account opening experience.

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How central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can enhance cross-border payments

The Payments Association

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could transform cross-border payments by reducing costs, improving efficiency, and enhancing transparency.

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Citi COO shares responsibility for data overhaul following $136 million fine

Finextra

Citigroup is stripping chief operating officer Anand Selva of his full responsibility for data compliance after the bank was hit with $136 million in fines for its failure to address long-standing deficiencies in risk management and data governance.

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Triple-A Powers Instant Crypto-to-Fiat Conversion for DCS Card Top-ups

Fintech News

DCS Card Centre has partnered with licensed digital currency payment provider Triple-A to allow customers to top up their virtual accounts using digital assets. The new feature, available through the DCS Cards app, lets users instantly convert their crypto holdings into Singapore dollars and use the funds for bill payments or other card purchases. Triple-A handles the conversion process, ensuring that DCS itself does not interact with the digital assets.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Sweden's central bank threatens banks with legislation to protect access to cash

Finextra

Sweden's Riksbank is threatening banks with the propect of regulation to ensure business access to cash services.

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August Tech Layoffs Highest Since January

The Finance Weekly

Sixty-four percent of tech companies pivot towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline operations. Tech giants like Apple, IBM, Cisco, Dell, and Intel were among the 48 companies that announced a whopping 26,024 job cuts. Over 400 tech companies have made similar announcements, affecting more than 130,000 workers, with January having the highest count of job cuts at 34,107.

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Trustly’s Ecospend Retains Its Key Open Banking Contract With HMRC

Fintech Finance

Ecospend , a Trustly Company and the UK leader in open banking payments, has retained the UK’s most significant open banking contract to date with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Ecospend will continue to offer its Open Banking solutions to enhance parts of HMRC’s payment processes and deliver innovative data solutions for taxpayers. Such services provide a range of benefits from decreasing errors and reducing fraud to improving usability for UK taxpayers while reducing costs for HMRC itself.

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STACS Rebrands as ESGpedia, Signals Expansion Amidst Rising ESG Demands

Fintech News

Hashstacs, previously known as STACS, has rebranded to ESGpedia , adopting the name of its flagship Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) platform. Headquartered in Singapore, ESGpedia provides data and technology solutions to support sustainability initiatives across Asia Pacific. The platform powers the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Greenprint ESG Registry , tracking sustainability data to address greenwashing concerns.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Brite Payments to Explore Consumer Payment Preferences and Rise of Pay by Bank in Upcoming Webinar

Fintech Finance

Brite Payments , a leading provider of open banking-based instant payments, will host its upcoming webinar Payment Insights 2024 at 15:00 CEST (14:00 BST) on Thursday, 26 September. Drawing upon exclusive survey data and findings from the 2024 Instant Economy Payment Insights report, leading payments experts will provide businesses with essential insights into the evolving landscape of online payments across Europe, with a particular focus on the rise of Pay by Bank.

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Key trends shaping the future of payments

Payments Dive

Explore trends reshaping the landscape of payments and how businesses can stay ahead with modern solutions.

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Ally faces legal battle after data breach

Bank Automation

Ally Financial faces two class action lawsuits in the wake of a data breach earlier this year. Plaintiff Sebastian Owens, among others in the class action suit, according to court documents filed in the District Court of Western District of North Carolina on Sept. 7, are suing Ally Financial subsidiary Detroit-based Ally Bank for: […] The post Ally faces legal battle after data breach appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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UK banks hail Regulated Liability Network experiments

Finextra

The UK's biggest banks have completed the experimentation phase of a Regulated Liability Network, claiming a number of benefits that the financial market infrastructure for programmable money operating on a multi-bank shared ledger could bring.

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

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

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

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75% of Truist customers’ primary access is mobile app

Bank Automation

Truist Financial is seeing increased mobile banking adoption among its customers as it prioritizes personalized experiences. “You hear people talk ‘digital first,’ [but] I would actually argue it’s ‘mobile first,’” Sherry Graziano, head of digital, client experience, and marketing at Truist, told Bank Automation News. “Three-quarters of our clients are engaging in mobile as their […] The post 75% of Truist customers’ primary access is mobile app appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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Barclays struggles to find buyer for UK merchants payments stake

Finextra

Barclays is having a hard time selling off a stake in its UK merchant payments unit with potential buyers baulking at the bank's valuation of the business, according to Reuters.

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Tottenham Hotspur Announces Ant International as Global Payment Solutions and Digital Wallet Partner

Fintech Finance

Tottenham Hotspur has announced a new three-year strategic partnership with Ant International , a digital payment and financial technology leader. The partnership sees Ant International, together with its business brands Alipay+, Antom and WorldFirst, become the exclusive Official Global Payment Solutions and Digital Wallet Partner of Tottenham Hotspur, and Alipay+ the first Official Training Wear Sleeve Partner for both the men’s and women’s teams.

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Club L London partners with Checkout.com

The Paypers

Global digital payments provider Club L London has partnered with Checkout.com in order to accelerate international expansion on the Shopify platform.

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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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PalmPay Introduces USSD Dialling Code, Improving Banking Accessibility in Nigeria

The Fintech Times

PalmPay , a financial platform boasting over 30 million users in Nigeria, has launched a USSD code, offering locals a new way to manage their finances without internet connectivity. As part of an effort to improve the accessibility of PalmPay, customers can now perform a number of banking transactions by dialling ‘*861#’ on their mobile phones.

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Digital Transformation in Retail: Building Better Outcomes for Merchants and Consumers

Finovate

From hyper-personalization to compliance automation to product management, the digital transformation in retail bears many similarities to the digital transformation taking place in financial services. In both instances, greater digitization and enabling technologies like AI and machine learning, are empowering businesses to better know and serve their customers, build innovative solutions and services, and secure their operations and their customers’ data against cybercrime.

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What is contract data extraction and how to extract data from contracts?

Nanonets

Managing and reviewing contracts throughout their lifecycle is quite a challenging task for businesses. Especially since contract data is often scattered across different systems or departments - making it hard to get a quick comprehensive view of contractual obligations. Consider the volume of contracts that businesses typically deal with, the effort required to manually review dense unstructured legal information, and the (legal) expertise required to interpret the data within contracts.

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What You Missed at FinovateFall Last Week

Finovate

If you skipped FinovateFall last week, you missed out! Fortunately, I’ve compiled a written highlight reel to bring you up to speed. Demos With 66 demos on stage, the audience took in a variety of fintech solutions. There was one underlying, enabling technology that fueled the majority of the products and services. That enabling technology, AI, pulsed throughout not just the demos, but the entire event.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

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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Old Second National Bank selects Newgen for digital account opening

Finextra

Newgen Software, a global provider of an AI-led digital transformation platform, announced its partnership with Old Second National Bank, one of the oldest banks in the US. To enhance its account management process, the bank opted for Newgen’s advanced digital account opening and maintenance solution, built on the NewgenONE low-code platform.

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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Finovate

Fresh from FinovateFall in New York, we’ve got a raft of fintech news to share and catch up on. Be sure to check Finovate’s Fintech Rundown all week long for the latest in industry news, announcements, and headlines. Credit unions Formerly PSCU/Co-op Solutions, Velera will provide card processing solutions for BrightStar Credit Union courtesy of a new partnership.

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BIS signs up more Project Agora participants

Finextra

More than 40 private sector financial firms, convened by the Institute of International Finance, will join the Bank for International Settlements and a group of leading central banks in Project Agorá to explore how tokenisation can enhance wholesale cross-border payments.

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Bybit Secures Provisional Virtual Asset Service Provider Licence in Dubai

The Fintech Times

Bybit , the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has been granted a Provisional Approval for Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence for virtual asset exchange services from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Having secured the licence, Bybit takes a sizeable step towards securing full operational approval in Dubai.

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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.