A look ahead to strong customer authentication
It’s vital that we use the year ahead to invest in long-term consumer testing.
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Video: Top fintech stories this week – 21 February 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
WorldRemit partners with Varo Money
The partnership will enable direct access in the Varo app to the WorldRemit service.
St Helena introduces electronic payments to the island with iPayu
The island is just 16 kilometres wide in size and home to 4,500 people.
Fiserv completes PIN on Mobile pilot in Poland
The tech vendor worked with Visa, Samsung and PayCore to test new product.
Mastercard plans its first European cybersecurity centre
The Cyber Resilience Centre will work with European cybersecurity agencies.
Pay.UK processes £7.4 trillion worth of transactions in 2019
The payment operator saw 500 million more transactions in 2019 compared to 2018.
Santander hires head of P2P payments
In this newly created role, Trish Burgess will lead the strategy and deployment of P2P.
Flywire secures unicorn status with $120 million Series E funding round
Goldman Sachs led the latest round.
Paysafe bags new CTO from Barclays
Sujit Unni is joining at an exciting time for the company.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 14 February 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Swedbank partners SIA and TietoEVRY for RT1 payments
30 million payments have already been made on the new system.
Klarna buys Italian paytech Moneymour
A product development hub will be launched in Milan.
Mastercard granted entry to Chinese payments market
People’s Bank of China gives Mastercard a green light.
Pay.UK consults industry on NPA standards
The consultation relates to the use of ISO 20022.
Transparent Systems comes out of stealth mode with $14m funding
Ivestors: “The financial industry is ready for new technology to improve the way people pay for goods and services.”
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Why Payments-as-a-Service is the first choice for FIs
More financial institutions are choosing to outsource their mission-critical payments infrastructure.
Ecommerce firm Dot lands $8m seed funding
The start-up builds ecommerce solutions for brick and mortar stores.
WhatsApp Pay to launch in India with initial 10m users
Facebook-owned firm plans a full roll-out this year.
Trustonic first to land EMVCo Software-Based Mobile Payments certificate
“[Our solution] brings the capability to literally anybody,” says Trustonic’s product director.
Rabobank spins out SurePay as independent company
Payments firm hailed as innovation success story.
Service models: The future of fintech
FinTech Futures talks to two BPC senior VPs about the company’s new processing business.
Fintech in the next decade: The intersection of what’s possible and what people want
Before we start to look at what the next 10 years hold, it’s worth taking a quick look back.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 03 February 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Fintech M&A: Prioritising growth and resilience
There is still runway for further consolidation.
Rewire CEO: We want to be the financial marketplace for migrants
Traditionally, migrants have struggled to find a one stop shop for their finances.
Paystand raises $20m in Series B funding
The round includes new investment from DNX Ventures, Battery Ventures and more.
PaySend and JS Bank create freelancer-focused wallet in Pakistan
Pakistan is the fourth fastest growing global economy for freelance worker revenues.
Azimo nabs €20m funding from European Investment Bank
Money transfer firm will use funding to boost European expansion.
Bankable and Visa extend partnership with US collaboration
Bankable also plans to open New York office.
Tom Shen joins Sensibill as chair of the board
Shen is a proven expert at scaling digital banking services for financial institutions.
PayPal users lose £1m to fraudsters posing as buyers
A total of 3,059 crime reports were submitted to Action Fraud regarding the scam.
Flywire CEO talks payments platforms, consolidation and fragmentation
Fragmented payments industry may thwart firms’ platform plans.
Banking Technology February 2020 issue out now
Top dogs: The challenger bank success stories of 2019.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 31 January 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Klarna lands $200m from CBA for Australia launch
CBA will own half of Klarna’s Australian and New Zealand business.
US paytech BandPay set to help musicians get paid
Funds aren’t released until both musicians and producers deliver on a project.
US neobank Rellevate picks Technisys for core tech
The challenger will offer payday advances by selling its service through employers.
Travelex puts money transfer systems online after cyberattack
A majority of the firm’s services remain down.
