Payroll cards have gotten a lot of negative press in the past few years and have been (or still are) in the legislative and regulatory hot seat in a few states, where onerous regulations could drive products out of the market.
Payroll card providers now have until July 31, 2015, to respond to the New York Department of Labor’s proposed payroll card regulations, which prohibit fees for inactivity, overdraft, declined transactions or receiving written transaction statements, among other mandates.
As PayPal prepares to fly solo later this month, its plan to buy international remittance firm Xoom Corp. for $890 million substantially increases its P2P business.
Visa Europe says that uptake of contactless payments in Europe continues to climb with more than one billion transactions made in the last year. Visa cardholders spent €1.6 billion in March 2015 alone – a three-fold increase over the same period in 2014.
Financial systems vendor Infosys is setting aside $10 million for Irish start-ups in the wake of being selected as a strategic partner by the Allied Irish Banks financial services group. Infosys will also set up a facility in Dublin to house up to 200 staff, including some transferring from AIB.
Velocimetrics, a developer of real-time business flow performance monitoring and analysis solutions, has expanded into the payments area with a new system developed from a custom solution built for a client.
Facebook’s mobile P2P payments service now is available throughout the U.S., the social media giant announced this week.
Square continues to diversify its revenue streams, recently adding electronic payroll to its roster of services for small and midsize business customers.
Spanish banking titan Santander and U.K.-based mobile banking firm Monitise today announced the formation of a joint venture to launch new fintech startups in their own backyards, using the companies’ combined strategic and technical resources.
Western Union is to install self-service kiosks in 300 of UK retailer WH Smith’s stores later this year. The kiosks allow customers to enter the details of money transfer transactions and then use the retailer’s self-checkout to pay.
Post-trade market infrastructure the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has launched a new centralised data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products and expanded its exchange traded funds and ISO 20022 corporate actions data offerings.
EBA Clearing has published a blueprint document spelling out high-level business requirements for the pan-European instant payment infrastructure it hopes to start piloting in 2017 following consultation with a task force composed of more than 20 representatives of EBA Clearing service users.
BBVA Group has entered a multi-year agreement with Broadridge Financial Solutions) for a post-trade managed service to support its institutional fixed income business in the US. Under the agreement, Broadridge will provide an integrated managed service to support fixed income and repurchase agreement processing, international clearance and settlement and investor communications services
Cybercrime investigators from six European countries joined forces and recently busted a large gang of cybercriminals that had used malware in a widespread attack on online banking systems across the Eurozone, resulting in losses of at least €2 million (US$2.22 million), according to Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency.
Wirecard this week has launched a mobile checkout development platform enabling retailers to boost the capabilities of their own apps by integrating open- and closed-loop contactless payments, P2P gifting, offers, merchant loyalty functionality and electronic receipts.
JPMorgan Chase is changing its policies to offer more customers access to mainstream payment services—and the company’s Liquid prepaid card will play a key role in the initiative.
Gift card exchange and Blackhawk Network subsidiary Cardpool is helping consumers turn their unused digital and plastic gift cards into charitable donations.
The funds industry has successfully implemented the requirements of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive over the past year but has doubts about the use of data being gathered by regulators and question whether it is helping regulators to better spot threats and systemic risks that may impact market stability.
Consumers may be complaining a lot about financial services in general, but those complaining to the CFPB about prepaid make up about 0.19 percent of the 411,434 complaints in the agency’s Consumer Complaint Database.
eBay’s spinoff of PayPal has reached two key milestones with board approval and an announcement that PayPal will begin trading its own stock next month on NASDAQ under the stock ticker symbol “PYPL.”
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New payments options are springing up all over the place – except for the underlying infrastructure where current arrangement for access and governance may be a hinderance to innovation, according to the head of the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator.
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold tax credits for consumers in 34 states with federal health insurance exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may not have huge implications for the benefit card industry.
A group of Canada’s major wireless carriers this week announced support for the NFC-based suretap mobile wallet, and with one major bank already on board, the move looks like a watershed moment for telco-led mobile wallets, which generally have struggled to catch on elsewhere.
The Indian government’s efforts to shift the country’s economy away from cash have taken a significant step forward.
The Chinese renminbi continues to gain ground internationally as more banks adopt the currency, propelling its position into the top five global payment currencies worldwide, according to the latest batch of data from Swift.
The NBPCA has announced that Brad Fauss has been elected to serve as its new president and CEO.
Brian M. Axell has joined the law firm Lindquist & Vennum LLP as partner in the financial institutions practice in the Minneapolis office.
MasterCard has appointed Hiang Choong as division president, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and two co-presidents for the Asia-Pacific region, Singapore-based Ling Hai and Ari Sarker.
Square Inc. has announced that business leader, philanthropist and basketball hall of famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson will join its board of directors this summer.
TSYS has promoted Keith Pierce to executive vice president for relationship management.
Virtual Piggy Inc. has appointed Phillip Manning and Dale Jensen, to its board of directors.
Visa Inc. announced that its board of directors has elected Lloyd A. Carney as an independent director, who will serve as a member of the board’s audit and risk committee.
Traxpay, a B2B payments solutions provider, has appointed Jochen Siegert chief operating officer.
Challenger UK retail bank Atom has received its licence from the Bank of England, meaning it will now be able to go ahead with plans to launch later this year. The bank will add competition to the UK retail banking sector, which until 2010 had not seen a single new entrant for 150 years.
Green Dot Corp. and Walmart have recommitted to their fruitful relationship for another five years, and though the companies are mum on the details of their revenue-sharing arrangement, the deal enhances the outlook for the iconic financial services provider.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has invested millions in various online marketplaces in the U.S., but this week it announced plans to sell its 1-year old U.S. online marketplace 11 Main to OpenSky.
Gyft, a San Francisco-based mobile gift card company and subsidiary of First Data Corp., has partnered with Chain, an application program interface (API) developer, to create a gift card trading platform that uses blockchain technology.
The afternoon sessions at the Banking Technology Forum 2015 focused on mobile payments, the data dilemma, cyber-security and regulation with speakers from Zapp, GSMA, EY and many others
There is a nuclear revolution going on in banking and payments with new digital challenger banks like Atom and Starling seeking to displace established banks that are themselves turning to real-time payment infrastructures to retain customers and under regulatory pressure to open up to FinTech competition from mobile players and payment service providers (PSPs). Crypto-currencies, cyber-security and other tech challenges were also addressed at the Banking Technology Forum 2015
