Payments

The WISE listing will be another test for London as a Fintech hub, as the UK grapples with its post-Brexit status in an era when it has struggled to attract fast growing companies looking to launch an IPO.

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Skrill as a new payment method available at Conotoxia

June 22, 2021

Skrill offers an instant, secure way to make payments online. To use the solution when paying via Conotoxia Pay, ordering currency exchange transactions, money transfers, or funding the Forex account held at Conotoxia.com, users first need to register on the Skrill website and top up their account.

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Electronic payments at the epicentre of industry transformation says PwC report

May 26, 2021

PwC’s survey reveals how even before the COVID-19 pandemic, cashless payments like sending a text to pay for a bus ticket in Turkey, or using a QR code to buy groceries in China are evidence of a steady shift to a digital economy - a shift that might ultimately lead to a global cashless society.

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Is monetising data the key to competing in payments?

April 29, 2021

A key challenge for banks in delivering new cash and liquidity management services to corporates (and in fact any data-driven proposition) is organising and transforming the data they have to ensure it is useful.

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Paysend and Plaid working together to make international money transfers seamless

April 27, 2021

Paysend is now working with Plaid to provide their 3.5 million customers with simple open banking payments that enable fast, low-cost international money transfers.

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Global payments platform Nium boosts payment capabilities in South Korea through partnership with SENTBE

April 1, 2021

South Korea has become an economic powerhouse, constantly ranking within the Top 10 when it comes to any global exporter and importer lists. With a focus on technological advancements, the country has also grown significantly in its adoption of cashless payments and often comes up top in the list.

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More than two thirds of UK businesses expect to increase their presence in Africa post-Brexit

March 31, 2021

A vital part of being able to capitalise on the opportunity in Africa is efficient cross-border payments. In terms of making trade with Africa more straightforward, more than half of (56%) respondents said having a payment platform that spans every African region would help with trading.

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Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay, acquires Wirecard Turkey

March 30, 2021

Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay, a vehicle that invests in payment assets, has today reached an agreement to acquire Wirecard Ödeme Ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri (Wirecard Turkey).

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Macro Hive Becomes First Ever Full Service Financial Research Firm To Accept Bitcoin For Payment

March 11, 2021

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Tide to launch Tide Payment Acceptance in platform expansion

March 8, 2021

“Payment acceptance has long been a complex and costly process for micro and small businesses. I am extremely excited by the prospect of bringing the service into the Tide platform and leveraging the full range of Tide products and platform capabilities.

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Fidor Solutions partners with SIA to launch instant payments service in Europe

March 2, 2021

Fidor Solutions, a 100 % subsidiary of Sopra Banking Software, has signed a partnership agreement with SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, to launch its new instant payments service in Germany and in other European countries.

Fintech

Open Banking’s #BlackFriday, Nordigen launches the first-ever free API platform

December 15, 2020

So we knew people who had credit scoring backgrounds and who had learnt to build scoring models from scratch, and who could build machine learning models from scratch.

Europe

Can the European Payments Initiative succeed?

December 8, 2020

“SEPA is interbank functioning,” points out Weimert. “Do I as a consumer care? No. Do merchants care? No, since it doesn’t give me a solution that I can use in a shop or online - I cannot click on a SEPA button on a website. SEPA is only rails and not the front-end solution.

Banking Technology

Collaboration and the future of digital banking: Elina Mattila at Mobey Forum

October 6, 2020

Mobey Forum is a place where banks can come together in a commercially neutral environment to exchange experiences and learnings and identify best practices. It’s a forum where banks can discuss what has worked and what hasn’t with peers from other non-competing banks. We provide the platform for those types of discussions in our Member Meetings and in our Expert Groups – both of which always take place under Chatham House Rules to increase the level of trust and enable openness and frank discussions of the real issues.

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