Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The Federal Reserve’s proposal to extend the operating hours of two interbank payments systems has been welcomed by large banks, but panned by many small financial institutions.
The Payments Association
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
FMPay, a licensed payment provider, has launched to offer small businesses in the UK a secure and straightforward way to handle payments. With no monthly fees, competitive transaction rates, multi-currency processing, and advanced fraud protection, FMPay aims to empower small businesses to grow by providing cost-effective, reliable, and transparent payment solutions, supported by a dedicated team.
Fintech News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
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.
Nanonets
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Picture this - you’re drowning in a sea of PDFs, spreadsheets, and scanned documents, searching for that one piece of data trapped somewhere in a complex table. From financial reports and research papers, to resumes and invoices, these documents can contain complex tables with a wealth of structured data that needs to be quickly and accurately extracted.
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
TechCrunch Fintech
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
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.
Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Finastra has announced that First Pacific Bank , a Southern California-based community bank that offers custom financial solutions for individuals and businesses, has selected Finastra Payments To Go to modernize its payments infrastructure. The cloud-based, SaaS payments hub solution will help the bank to deliver FedNow send and receive services 24/7, support ISO 20022 compliance, and enable its projected growth.
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Finextra
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The number of card transactions in Europe is set to plummet by more than a third over the next three years, driven by the rise of account-to-account payments as ventures such as the EPI's new Wero wallet gain traction, claims a Capgemini report.
Fintech News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Financial institutions around the world are facing a surge in fraud and cyberattacks. A new report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions explores the state of digital fraud, revealing a 17% increase in digital fraud attacks within the financial services sector in 2023. According to the report, human-initiated attacks in financial services rose to 1.2% last year, up 8% year-over-year (YoY).
The Fintech Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
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
Finovate
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
You never know where Finovate Global will take you on any given week. In our last edition, we spent time in Spain with wealthtech GPTadvisor. Before that, we were talking about Ireland’s Central Bank and its search for top fintech talent, new investment in mobile payments in the Philippines , and the pace of digital transformation in India’s financial services sector.
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Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today announced the release of its latest publication, Operational Considerations for Receiving Instant Payments. This comprehensive guideline provides essential insights and best practices for financial institutions (FIs) as they navigate the complex landscape of instant payments.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Real-time payments and open banking will drive the increase, forcing the shift even faster globally, a Capgemini report released this week said.
Finextra
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
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.
Fintech News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
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.
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
Open Banking
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
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
The Fintech Times
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Known for its technological advancements and industrial growth, Taiwan has also emerged as a notable player in the fintech sector. With a strong foundation in semiconductors and information technology, alongside government initiatives and a developing fintech ecosystem, Taiwan is steadily integrating digital innovation into its financial services. Taiwan, along with South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore, forms the group known as the ‘Four Asian Tigers,’ renowned for their rapid
TechCrunch Fintech
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Paymob has evolved into an omnichannel gateway offering over 50 methods for offline and online payments to more than 350,000+ merchants. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
"While rewards may feel like a bonus for those who use credit cards regularly, they ultimately come at a cost," writes one payments executive.
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Finextra
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Voice cloning scams – where fraudsters use AI technology to replicate the voice of a friend or family member – could be set to catch millions out, according to new research from Starling Bank.
Fintech News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The Thai Bankers Association (TBA) has blacklisted 15,000 individuals and suspended 34,000 bank accounts connected to call-center scam operations, according to The Nation. The move follows the implementation of an AI-driven Cross-Reference File (CRF) system designed to identify mule accounts used in money laundering activities. Payong Srivanich TBA Chairman Payong Srivanich announced on Monday that the CRF system, developed by the association, flagged more than 15,000 individuals who had opened
Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
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.
Finovate
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
After two days of live demos from more than 65 fintech companies, the attendees of FinovateFall 2024 have made their decisions as to which of these innovators will take home Finovate’s coveted Best of Show awards. Featuring both Finovate newcomers and Finovate veterans alike, the winners of Best of Show for FinovateFall 2024 are listed below. Bancography for its technology that predicates branch investments on sound market data, not intuition, preventing costly missteps and ensuring optimi
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.
The Fintech Times
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Payments giant Mastercard has partnered with Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom , to accelerate the adoption of payment acceptance and cross-border remittance services across Kenya. Through the Mastercard and Safaricom partnership, the two entities hope to benefit the 636,000 merchants in Kenya using M-PESA, Safaricom’s mobile money service and the preferred way to make a payment across Africa.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
While most U.S. households have a bank account, just under half use a nonbank payment service, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank research says.
Finextra
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Private equity giant Blackstone has confirmed a £10 billion investment in an AI data centre in the North East of England, creating around 4000 jobs.
Fintech News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
HSBC Holdings is reportedly considering a major overhaul of its operations, exploring the merger of its commercial and investment banking divisions, Bloomberg reports. This comes as new CEO Georges Elhedery explores plans to streamline operations by cutting layers of middle management This potential restructuring, spearheaded by Elhedery, aims to streamline the banking giant’s structure and eliminate redundancies, ultimately reducing costs.
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.
NFCW
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
P2P: Tap to Cash enables users to send and receive Apple Cash by holding two iPhones together Apple Watch and iPhone users in the US can now use Apple’s Tap to Cash peer-to-peer money transfer service to transfer money to each other via NFC. The ability to use NFC to add a payment card to Apple Wallet is also being rolled out via a new Tap to Provision service.
Finovate
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
You’ve seen the hype around Generative AI (GenAI). And perhaps you even have an AI strategy in place at your organization. But because the development of AI moves faster than any enabling technology we’ve seen in banking in the past, it’s important to think ahead to the next iteration. In this case, the next evolution of GenAI is Agentic AI.
The Fintech Times
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
India-based Web3 association, Bharat Web3 Association , is expanding into Australia, after signing agreements with the Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA), the voice for businesses and innovators utilising blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), and Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia , a non-profit organisation looking to mobilise blockchain technology in the region.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The card network may soon be sued by the Department of Justice over its debit card practices, according to multiple news reports citing anonymous sources.
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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