Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 14 January 2019
Featuring N26, RBS and Loot, Google in Ireland, and Alipay in Pakistan.
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Banks onboard for UK economic crime taskforce
The Economic Crime Strategic Board is unveiled.
Malaysia gets real-time payments with ACI Worldwide
Under the DuitNow platform.
Money app Yolt launches open beta in Italy and France
Early bird users get it to a lovely place.
Double time for Worldline payment launches
Paytech unleashes new device and commerce hub.
Monerium gets $2m funding for e-money on blockchain
Icelandic firm’s latest round includes support from ConsenSys.
Featurespace fuels Everis’ payments fraud fight
Business consultancy selects ARIC platform.
Top fintech stories this week – 11 January 2019
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Elavon acquires CenPOS for payments push
It’s Miami nice as US Bancorp subsidiary makes another acquisition.
Ipagoo payments flying high with IATA
Paytech partners with International Air Transport Association.
Brexit worries take TransferWise on Belgium licence hunt
UK office is safe but paytech wants to prep in event of a ‘no deal’.
SafeCharge to power Gett’s payment reconciliation
Transporting it to the new era of fintech.
Euro Exim Bank deal puts Ripple on correspondent course
“Traditional correspondent banking system” gets some competition.
Moorwand releases first UnionPay card in UK
UnionPay moves West with a multi-currency pre-paid card.
Alipay powers Pakistan’s “first” blockchain-based cross-border remittance service
Service provided by Telenor Microfinance Bank and Valyou.
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Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 8 January 2019
A short and sweet round-up of the week’s selected news stories in a video format.
BBVA leads $12m funding in paytech Grabango
Busy bank shows more interest in invisible payments.
New Mastercard logo enters icon era
Who knew 2019 would be known as “The Year #Priceless Went Nameless”?
Indonesia’s KinerjaPay collects $200m funding
Paytech gets backing from Wahana Group.
Interview: Roderick Simons, CTO of Yolt
What is it like to build a smart thinking money app from the ground up?
Fintech firm WB21 caught in storm of allegations
The evidence keeps piling up and the firm stays silent.
Wirecard releases Visa card for Chinese tourists
A multi-currency card for the most frequented destinations.
Paytech firms Nets and Concardis finalise merger
Both payments companies to retain their brands.
Zwipe seeks $14m funding for Merkur Market move
Norwegian firm looks for multilateral trading facility action.
Google gets payments licence in Ireland
Follows on from last month’s licence in Lithuania.
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Emirates NBD upgrades payments system with TCS
TCS Bancs scores again.
It’s safe to bet on open banking
Open banking is the future where everyone can win.
Hispanic Christians find payments faith in Vivipay
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is mightily impressed.
QNB revamps payments systems with Infosys Finacle
Qatar National Bank consolidating across various countries with unified hub.
PaySend powers Vietcombank payments
Allowing remittances to any account or Napas cards.
ACI Worldwide plugs National Bank of Kuwait into Swift’s gpi
First bank in the country signing up to gpi.
UK start-up Viola Black tunes in with account launch
“We are not a bank.”
Ant Financial looking to buy UK’s FX firm WorldFirst
Could take place in the next few weeks for over £550m.
Visa to acquire Earthport for £198m
Struggling payments firm finds the deal “very attractive”.
Texas start-ups use AI to help customers find and pay workers
The American workforce has moved significantly beyond what Dolly Parton was familiar with.
Initiatives by India’s government to boost fintech
The fintech space in India has seen an exponential growth over a few years.
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New faces and great ambitions. Let the rockets reign in this top ten trip down memory lane.
