Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
“It's going to be up to us to move instant payments from being novel to being normal,” Federal Reserve Financial Services’ chief payments executive told attendees at a major industry conference last week.
Finextra
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The five central bank partners in Project Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements initiative to interlink domestic real-time payment rails across borders, are to establish a managing entity, the Nexus Scheme Organisation (NSO), which will oversee the project in its live implementation stages, in Singapore.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Nium, a global payments infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Partior , a blockchain-based clearing and settlement network, at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2024. This collaboration makes Nium the first fintech payment service provider to join the Partior network, unlocking new capabilities such as programmable enterprise liquidity management and Just-in-Time multi-bank payments for financial institutions.
Finextra
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Wise has signed Tier 1 global bank Standard Chartered to use its platform for cross-border remittances in Asia and the Middle East.
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
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Chinese tech giant Tencent and Visa announced a new partnership to bring palm recognition payments to international markets at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The pilot program will begin in Singapore, allowing Visa cardholders from participating banks like DBS, OCBC, and UOB to pay with their palms at select merchants. The first location to offer this technology is Alchemist, a café in Singapore.
Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
If the Justice Department were to block the Capital One-Discover deal while also going after Visa, “they’d be intellectually inconsistent,” a George Mason University law professor said.
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The Payments Association
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
A flexible, focused marketing plan improves budgeting, targeting, and adaptability, with ongoing analysis ensuring effective growth. The holiday season and 2025 will be here before you know it! Just like holiday preparations, budget planning and marketing strategies can sneak up on you, leaving little time to get them right if you wait until the last minute.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The Banque de France (BdF) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have announced the successful completion of an international experiment focused on post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This joint effort aimed to enhance communication and data security amidst the advancing capabilities of quantum computing. The achievement represents a major step in strengthening electronic communications against future cybersecurity risks.
Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The government acknowledges payment volumes are rising, in part because of fintech growth. This competition wouldn’t be happening if a single entity, like Visa, controlled the ecosystem.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The five central banks collaborating on Project Nexus will set up a managing entity called the Nexus Scheme Organisation (NSO). Based in Singapore, the NSO will oversee the project as it moves towards live implementation stages. Project Nexus is designed to enhance cross-border payment efficiency by linking various domestic instant payment systems on a global scale.
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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?
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
MeaWallet , a leading digital payments enabler specialising in card tokenization, today announced several updates to its products in support of Click to Pay. The Click to Pay payment method is designed to deliver a seamless and secure online payment experience, enhancing both convenience and speed for consumers and merchants. MeaWallet product updates support businesses facing mandatory regulatory requirements that state they must support Click to Pay, as well as those aiming to offer customers
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Standard Chartered and Ant International have successfully completed their first Singapore dollar (SGD) transaction using the latter’s blockchain-based Whale platform. This marks a major step towards instant and 24/7 treasury management for both companies, optimising treasury and working capital management for Ant International and its entities.
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
payabl. , one of Europe’s financial services providers, today announced that it has appointed Marios Tsiailis as its new Group CFO. With a strong track record in professional services, where he excelled in corporate finance and strategic planning, Marios steps into this role to drive initiatives aimed at optimising payabl.’s financial framework and fostering sustainable growth.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The State Bank of India (SBI) has partnered with APIX , a global innovation platform connecting financial institutions and fintechs, to launch the SBI Innovation Hub at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The hub will serve as a space for fintechs, startups, and innovators to create new financial solutions for SBI’s customer base. The SBI Innovation Hub will provide access to over 250 of SBI’s financial service APIs, a secure sandbox environment for testing, and opportunities to particip
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
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Klarna , the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, and John Lewis & Partners have partnered to bring Klarna to JohnLewis.com and in the John Lewis app. John Lewis’ customers can now choose to check out with Klarna’s interest-free Pay in 3 product allowing shoppers to spread the cost of their purchases over 60 days. The first payment is made at the time of purchase, followed by two subsequent payments at 30-day intervals.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The Global Finance & Technology Network ( GFTN ) announced its Board of Directors and International Advisory Board today. Established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to promote innovation in finance, GFTN has assembled a team of prominent figures from public and private sectors worldwide. GFTN will operate through four strategic businesses: GFTN Forums, a global conference platform focused on finance and technology; GFTN Advisory, providing practitioner-led advisory services and
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
In a significant move to strengthen its retail cross-border payments offering, leading global bank Standard Chartered and Wise Platform, Wise’s global payments infrastructure for banks, have announced a partnership, to power faster and cheaper international payments for the bank’s cross-border payment service, SC Remit. The partnership will allow Standard Chartered’s SC Remit customers in Asia and in the Middle East to send money in 21 currencies including USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, SGD, HKD, JPY in a
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
In 2024, Singapore’s fintech landscape continued its dynamic expansion, reinforcing the country’s position as a leader in payment innovation, digital banking and digital asset management. The 2024 Singapore Fintech Report , produced by Fintech News Singapore under the support of Visa Direct, offers an analysis of these advancements, exploring the transformation of this burgeoning ecosystem as well as the key trends shaping the sector.
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.
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Swift , UBS Asset Management , and Chainlink have successfully completed a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network. This initiative would enable digital assets transactions to settle with fiat payment systems across more than 11,500 financial institutions, across over 200 countries and territories. Traditional fund operations often face inefficiencies in subscription and redemption processes, including manual interventions, delayed settlements, and
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Ingenico, a French merchant services tech company, has partnered with Crypto.com to enable crypto payments for millions of merchants worldwide. This plug-and-play collaboration will allow consumers to pay with crypto at Ingenico terminals, while merchants can seamlessly receive settlements in their local currency, eliminating currency risk. The partnership leverages Ingenico’s new merchant wallet, connected to AXIUM Android terminals, designed to simplify the integration of crypto payments
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
GSMA and UK Finance have joined forces to provide a collaborative framework for the UK’s leading mobile network operators and banks to develop and launch Scam Signal, a new solution to help address Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud in the UK. Scam Signal is launching as a collaboration between mobile network operators EE, Virgin Media O2, Three, Vodafone and UK Finance members, including NatWest, participating on behalf of the banking industry.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Visa has announced a suite of new products and services aimed at transforming the future of payments in the Asia Pacific region at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2024 (SFF 2024). One of the central products, Visa Flexible Credential , allows a single card to switch between various payment options—such as debit, credit, installment payments, or rewards redemption.
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.
Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
After a limited trial run, customers can now use several popular digital currencies to buy items at all of the East Coast retailer’s 750-plus locations.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Latin America (LatAm) is home to a vibrant and expanding gaming community that is seeing rapid growth in both user base and revenue. With 355 million gamers contributing to an expected US$14 billion market in 2024, LatAm is emerging as a major growth region for global gaming companies, presenting considerable opportunities for Asia-Pacific (APAC) firms, according to Eduardo de Abreu, Vice President of Product at EBANX, a leader in localized payment solutions.
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced a strategic partnership with HyperGuest , a premier B2B marketplace for the travel and hospitality industry. This collaboration brings together Nium’s advanced virtual card payment solution with HyperGuest’s innovative travel distribution platform to deliver greater efficiency, speed, and security in payments for HyperGuest’s network of travel partners, hotels, and other accommodation providers around t
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Gprnt , a digital platform for ESG reporting and data developed by MAS, has launched its inaugural Disclosure and Marketplace offerings. These tools aim to simplify sustainability reporting for businesses and connect them with resources to support their decarbonisation efforts. The Disclosure tool, which integrates with government databases and private sector solutions, offers a user-friendly, generative AI-powered solution for businesses to measure their Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
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Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Ahead of the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard today introduced Mastercard Pay Local, a global service that makes it easy for consumers to make card payments to merchants using local digital wallets. With Mastercard Pay Local, resident cardholders or international travelers can easily link their credit or debit cards to a digital wallet and immediately shop at participating merchants, without needing to set up or top up a prepaid account.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Payment giant Mastercard is accelerating and securing online transactions in Asia Pacific by eliminating the need for one-time passwords (OTPs) with its enhanced Mastercard Payment Passkey service. This service allows consumers to authenticate online payments using biometrics like fingerprints or facial scans, similar to unlocking a smartphone. The Mastercard Payment Passkey Service combines tokenisation, Click to Pay, and biometric authentication to offer a seamless and secure checkout experien
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Plumery , a digital banking experience platform for true customer-centric banking, today announced a new partnership with Payment Components , a leader in payments and open banking solutions. By decoupling digital experience and payment processes from legacy systems, institutions can now innovate more flexibly and efficiently, streamlining operations while maintaining their existing core banking frameworks.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
OCBC Bank and Ant International have announced a strategic partnership aimed at streamlining cross-border fund settlements using tokenised deposits and leveraging advanced encryption and AI. The collaboration will prioritise enabling real-time payments between Singapore and Malaysia, 24/7, via Ant International’s Whale platform. This platform utilises blockchain technology, advanced encryption, and AI to enhance the speed, efficiency, and transparency of cross-border transactions.
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