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Top fintech stories this week – 02 February 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
eBay ditches PayPal for Adyen
Dutch outfit Adyen fits – and becomes primary processing partner.
PayPal powers BofA Merrill digital payments
US-based commercial clients can now make payments in local currencies.
Banking Technology February 2018 issue out now
Vision dreams of passion. And all the while I think of fintech.
Happy tenth anniversary to SEPA payment scheme!
Ten facts and figures celebrating SEPA’s achievements.
Bankwest launches Australia’s first payments ring, Bankwest Halo
“Just grab the things you need, fist-bump the terminal and go.”
Saudi Arabia to build new testing and certification scheme for payments
FIME to develop a bespoke cloud-based testing platform and certification process.
California Coast Credit Union opts for PSCU’s paytech
California Coast Credit Union abandons CO-OP Financial Services for PSCU.
Payments round-up: 30 January 2018
Featuring Vocalink, Shieldpay, Huawei, UnionPay, Pelican, PaymentComponents, Infosistema and Banco BAI Europa.
Payoneer partners with Waze to power local payments
Currently available in Texas, California and Israel.
Softbank seeks to steal PayPal’s plunder
A rival digital payments system?
ING makes 75% incision in Payvision
Looks for growth and to broaden its payment product portfolio.
Volante and BNY Mellon team for paytech innovation
To enable real-time payments in the US and internationally.
PostFinance in core banking tech upgrade
Swiss Post’s financial services arm will be updating its core banking software over the Easter weekend.
eCurrency Mint and Rizal to launch digital cash in Philippines
Plan to make it available by Q2 this year.
The importance of knowing your payments are secure
The explosion of e-commerce has led to an increase in online fraud and money laundering.
Payments round-up: 26 January 2018
Features Alipay in Israel; ABN Amro and Payconiq ending talks; and Apple’s Business Chat.
Bank of England recovers from IT issues
Resolves technology communications problems following a regular internal IT update.
Ingenico finds it a Small World for payments
Ingenico will begin processing payments for Small World in 18 countries, including the US.
Unified monitoring: how banks can plan for success, not just prepare against failures
How to stay competitive among other brick-and-mortar operations.
First Data to open new fintech centre in Ireland
US payments firm also aims to hire 150 staff from around the world.
Mastercard eyes biometric totality by 2019
Banks issuing Mastercard-branded cards will have to offer biometric authentication.
Payments round-up: 23 January 2018
Features DBS Bank, Xero, WeChat Pay and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Open banking: what you need to know
The landscape for financial services is changing, and the jury is still out on how the endgame is going to play out.
iSignthis and Worldline finalise payments partnership
Proof that digital identity proofing company iSignthis has done it.
WhatsApp steps into the world of business
To make sure businesses don’t actually have to talk to those pesky customers face-to-face.
Blockchain – not for payments?
Blockchain still has the subject of heated discussion and massive investments of time and money.
ShopKeep all over First Data’s Clover POS technology
Cloud payments and point-of-sale (POS) system start-up ShopKeep deepens ties.
Flywire acquires payments firm OnPlan Holdings
Buys OnPlanU and OnPlan Health, both subsidiaries of OnPlan Holdings.
Top six trends in payments
What trends will be impacting the payments industry this year?
Curve card comes a-calling in UK
An app that connects debit and credit cards to one Curve Mastercard.
Silver Lake and P2 Capital Partners to buy Blackhawk Network for $3.5bn
US investment firms go for an all-cash transaction, which includes Blackhawk’s debt.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Turkey: the next cashless society
Turkey is perfectly placed to become the world’s next cashless society – a true digital payment powerhouse.
Accounting platform Aplos shows faith with Gusto
For Aplos’s nonprofit and faith-based organisation client base.
Alfa-Bank and HashCash unleash blockchain-powered payments
Russia’s largest commercial bank is making waves.
Payments round-up: 11 January 2018
Featuring lots of partnerships – with Ripple, MoneyGram, Worldpay, Iyzico, MSTS and Apruve.
Lithuania’s central bank selects SIA to access instant payments
Will connect with RT1, the pan-European instant payments infrastructure that goes live in November.
Harrods Bank acquired by challenger Tandem
UPDATE. Purchase completed following regulatory approval from the Bank of England.
