Financial crime specialist Fiserv has just launched its Financial Crime Risk Management platform, which aims to help financial institutions to ward off financial crime and slash their risk.
The Banking Industry Architecture Network has gained its first member in the Middle East with the addition of Commercial Bank of Qatar to its roster.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t issue its proposed rules for GPR prepaid cards until May of 2014, according to the agency’s updated rulemaking agenda.
US data management company McObject has appointed Ian Hillier-Brook as its representative in the UK and Europe.
European equities clearing houses EMCF and EuroCCP have completed their merger transaction and chosen a new name for the merged company, following the final approval by Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche to the group’s shareholder organisations the DTCC and BATS Chi-X Europe.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. has notified 465,000 holders of prepaid cards issued by the bank that some of their personal data may have been exposed to hackers after its systems were breached last summer.
Mobile POS provider PayAnywhere has struck a deal to enable its merchant clients to accept payments via PayPal’s payment card.
Chinese officials today have banned financial institutions in the country from using Bitcoin as currency, asserting that bitcoins are merely virtual goods that have no status as legal tender.
Nearly 90 percent of consumers likely will purchase at least one gift card from a Website or mobile app this season, according to a study of consumer shopping trends conducted by InComm, a prepaid product and transaction services provider.
Global gift card provider Stored Value Solutions (SVS) is strengthening its position in China with the launch of a new data center in Shanghai.
Visa prepaid gift cards and Discover multimerchant gift cards will be available in more ATMs in the Southwest this holiday through a reseller agreement between Better ATM Services and Express Teller Services announced yesterday.
Sapient Global Markets has launched a close of business reporting service that it says will help capital and commodity markets trading firms to meet regulation at lower cost.
BBVA Asset Management has chosen an enterprise data management platform from Markit, which will act as hub for its securities, portfolio, fund, issuer and position data in several countries, including Spain and Mexico.
BNY Mellon has added a link to Bloomberg to its AccessEdge investment management service, which the bank says will help clients to better manage their collateral.
As Europe’s post-trade infrastructure is subjected to increasing levels of regulation, CSDs will be forced to change their business models to stay alive, custodians will be forced to seek alliances to find economies of scale, and brokers will have to outsource parts of their mid and back office processes to stay in the game, according to analyst firm Celent.
The group of banks holding a controlling interest in SIA, the Italian payments processor and systems developer, have reduced their ownership in a sale to a consortium of investment funds led by Fondo Strategico Italiano.
Blackhawk Network has acquired Germany-based gift card distribution network Retailo AG, a deal which adds more than 40,000 new locations to Blackhawk’s total EMEA retail distribution network.
Starting May 1, 2014, prepaid cards will be subject to new regulations in Canada, including a ban on expiration dates and account maintenance fees during the first year a card is in use, among other measures.
Though the common perception is that prepaid debit cards are designed for, and popular with, low-income consumers, demand for the product spans the income spectrum, according to a report by Aite Group LLC.
Consumers who purchased gift cards from Gyft.com on Thanksgiving and Black Friday received a discount on future purchases if they paid with Bitcoin. Gyft Inc., a San Francisco-based mobile gift card company, last week announced that 4 percent of purchases made with Bitcoin would be converted to Gyft Points that customers could use toward gift […]
Digital security firm Oberthur Technologies has partnered with mobile services specialists mBank in a project aimed at bringing “branchless” banking services to people in emerging markets.
NCR is “fundamentally and permanently changing” financial services its financial services business with a £1.6 billion acquisition of Digital Insight, a Californian on-line and mobile banking solutions provider. It has also bought UK-based fraud prevention company Alaric.
An IT problem that left customers of RBS and its Natwest and Ulster Bank subsidiaries unable to use their accounts yesterday evening was described as “unacceptable” by a bank spokeswoman. For three hours – on what was expected to by the largest online shopping day of the year, dubbed “Cyber Monday” – the banks’ customers […]
Shoppers and retailers continued to blur the line between Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday as consumer traffic on the holiday grew 27 percent, to nearly 45 million shoppers from 35 million a year ago, according to a National Retail Federation survey.
Visa’s entry into the digital wallet space is now live in a quartet of European countries.
PayPal has made it easier for consumers with network branded prepaid gift cards to redeem them while shopping online.
Oman’s Bank Muscat said it will recover nearly $40 million the bank lost in a global bank heist involving prepaid cards earlier this year, now that the bank’s insurers have agreed to foot the bill for the loss.
Euroclear UK and Ireland is planning to shorten its settlement cycle to T+2 from October next year, bringing its operations into line with clearing in Germany and Russia, which already operate T+2.
Ghana. The word means ‘warrior king’, but it also describes a booming country of 24 million people living on the coast of West Africa. It is here that three African financial institutions – City Investments Company, NDK Financial Services and The Royal Bank – are turning to new technology to realise their plans.
Standard Chartered and Agricultural Bank of China have launched renminbi-denominated clearing services in the UK in a deal that reflects the ongoing internationalisation of the currency.
Bank algos may superficially appear to be well-tested – but the process may be open to any number of unexpected flaws, according to Steve Wilcockson, industry manager at big data specialist firm MathWorks.
Santander, Nationwide and Halifax have gained the most from the UK’s account switching service, while traditional banking names Barclays, HSBC Lloyds & TSB and NatWest have lost out, according to new figures released by advisory firm TNS.
RBS has confirmed that it is to launch V.me by Visa, the digital wallet built by Visa Europe. The decision follows a pilot programme, and will mean that RBS follows in the footsteps of Nationwide Building Society, which has just become the first UK high street brand to roll out the wallet to its customers.
Online retailers have become sophisticated at observing customer behaviour, and then marketing based on the individual’s inclinations and past actions. Now, banks are starting to do it too. That could lead to some interesting scenarios, according to Charles Radclyffe, chief executive officer at business intelligence consultancy BIPB.
Most people have no idea how good Turkish wine is, according to Martin Spurling, chief executive of HSBC Turkey. With over 1.5 million acres of land devoted to vines, it is a little-known fact that the Mediterranean country is the world’s fourth producer of grapes. The same can be said for Turkey’s ambitious plans to develop Istanbul as a major international financial centre.
The House Financial Services Committee, led by Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), approved no less than a half-dozen bills late last week aimed at bringing more accountability, oversight and transparency to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Vodafone is bringing its NFC-based mobile wallet to Europe, and using an open standard to make it easy for banks, retailers and transportation agencies to host services in the wallet.
With online gaming legal in New Jersey as of early this week, digital payments provider Skrill is anteing up to offer the only mobile wallet fully approved by the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), the company said.
The m-POS revolution, led by newcomers like Square targeting small merchants with smartphone-based card readers since 2009, is slowly but surely reshaping the payments landscape while regulatory and competitive changes also are afoot, according to Mobey Forum.
A new mobile voice recording service is being developed by UK tech company Voxsmart, which it claims is the first to automatically capture every type of communication on a mobile device so that it can be used for trading compliance purposes, including the FCA in the UK and Dodd-Frank in the US.
