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Finally, a real alternative to cards

For e-commerce and contact centre payments, cards have been the only payment option but are costly to businesses and increasingly difficult to use for consumers. Open banking regulation and technologies has created new options for businesses

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Monzo Could Be Gonzo After Regulatory Investigation

Monzo Bank has been in financial danger for some time and now, in its latest annual report, has admitted that the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating it for its compliance or otherwise with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017.

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Currencycloud embedded finance research

Currencycloud is working with partners to research and write a report on the current state of embedded finance and the future trends of what to expect in the coming years. As you are an expert in the industry, we’d love to capture your thoughts. Please complete our survey, it should take no more than 3-5 minutes.

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Report: True Cost of Failed Payments

This 2021 report summarises a survey taken by over 200 payments professionals across the banking, financial, fintech and corporate sectors. It provides an overview of the payments landscape, explores the key findings, and provides insight into the various elements that had an impact on failed payments throughout 2020.

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5 THINGS FRAUD FIGHTERS ARE SAYING ABOUT ONLINE FRAUD RIGHT NOW

– Introduction
– Poor hygiene & Persistent threats – ‘perfect storm’ of online fraud
– Customers expect Banks to Know Your User
– Fraud Fighting Collective – Fraud Fusion Centers
– Overwhelmed with Alerts, Automation is key
– Clear ‘risk calculation’ – Frictionless First
– No silver bullet – but there are best practices

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USING BIONICIDS TO STOP IMPERSONATION AND MANIPULATION ATTACKS

– Introduction
– What is BionicID™ analysis best suited for?
– Does BionicID™ data collection or analysis impact the user experience?
– Does BionicID™ data collection/analysis comply with SCA/PSD2?
– Does BionicID™ data collection/analysis (behavioral biometric digital identity) comply with GDPR?

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WHAT IS BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRIC ANALYSIS?

– Introduction
– Physical vs. Behavioral Biometrics
– What is a BionicID™
– What makes Revelock’s BionicID™ solution unique in fraud prevention?
– What makes Revelock’s BionicID™ more accurate than other behavioral biometric solutions?

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Diners Club Peru selects BPC’s SmartVista commerce suite

BPC, the global leading payment solution provider, has announced that Diners Club Peru has selected its commerce suite as part of its innovation program. Diners Club Peru is the third acquiring network in Peru, owned by Banco Pichincha Peru, part of the Pichincha Holding Group headquartered in Ecuador.

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SWIFT Hackathon for 2021

SWIFT Hackathon for 2021 View the SWIFT Hackathon 2021 flyer This year, we are challenging the community and wider ecosystem to harness the power of AI & machine learning to

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Global Processing Services and Currencycloud partner to offer complete, enterprise-grade, cross-border payments solution

Global Processing Services (GPS), the multi-award-winning payments processing partner behind some of Britain’s biggest challenger fintechs including Revolut and Starling Bank, and Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, have partnered to widen access to cross-border payments for financial institutions and fintechs, providing a passport to a post-Covid world.

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Contis launches banking division with appointment of former Lloyds MD

Award-winning Banking-as-a-Service platform, Contis, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Lyons as Managing Director of Banking Solutions. Andy brings a wealth of experience in retail and corporate banking to boost Contis’ banking division and cement its position as the European leader in Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS).

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Managing Chargebacks Out Of Your Business

Transact365 is more than a gateway. It is a methodology platform that has been designed to operate as a technical consultancy business, lending our years of experience and knowledge whilst building on new and exciting technology that can zero out fraud.

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Trust Payments enters the Nordic market

Trust Payments announced it has entered the Nordic market via two initial strategic partnerships. The company has partnered with Global Sales Partner (GSP) to deploy omnichannel solutions into the market, as well as with POS ONE, a leading cloud-based, hardware agnostic integration solution for merchants needing multiple channels to market.

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West Africa’s challenger bank, the Vista Bank Group, selects paytech provider Radar Payments by BPC to drive its digital payment strategy

Vista Bank Group in West Africa has chosen Radar Payments for its processing activities and to drive digital payment adoption in the region. The solution will include SmartVista’s card issuance and lifecycle management, payment switching, ATM and point-of-sales management as well as providing digital channels such as mobile banking and e-wallet; personalised to both retail and corporate clients.

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Tink and Tribe partner for open banking payments

Open banking platform Tink partners with payments technology provider Tribe for open banking payment initiation and account check services.

Blog post below –

https://tink.com/tink-tribe-payments-partnership/?utm_content=165197139&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2735919

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Omnibus Account Model Spurs Stablecoin Enthusiasm

On April 19th, the Bank of England published a policy for the use of omnibus accounts with the central bank’s real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. The announcement has been greeted with enthusiasm by providers of virtual currency and blockchain-based payments, which see the new system as clearing a path towards direct participation in central bank settlement.

:Marcus Hughes, director of business development at Bottomline Technologies, told VIXIO that the policy brought a “tremendous clarity which wasn’t there before, and I think this will become a blueprint for other central banks”.

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Blocser card launch tells gig workers: “You’re worth it”

Ambitious Danish fintech Blocser and top UK card manufacturer allpay.cards are ready to let ‘Butterfly’ take flight.

allpay.cards are providing their unique end-to-end card manufacturing solution to Blocser who are launching an app, with a payment card, to support the ever-growing number of UK gig economy workers.

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SFDR Level 2 update

Get to grips on the road ahead with Level 2 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), coming into effect for financial market participants and financial advisors from January 1, 2022.

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Payment Matters No. 49

Stay up to date on the latest developments in the payments industry from the UK, Europe and beyond, with Eversheds Sutherland’s quarterly bulletin, Payment Matters.

In the latest edition, they discuss: significant developments in the UK’s plans for Open Banking and Open Finance; continued focus on the effectiveness of the revised payment services directive (PSD2); the Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM); newly introduced for payment initiation service provider (PISP) payments, and the recent review published by the Lending Standards Board (LSB); and the success of Instant Payments in the Netherlands, and the drive for eurozone coverage, backed by the European Central Bank.

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IIF – Payments Association Global Payments Forum Inaugural Meeting Summary

The inaugural meeting of the International Institute of Finance (IIF) – The Payments Association Global Payments Forum was held on March 16, 2021 as a virtual event. Around 100 people registered for the first meeting from across IIF and Payments Association members and invited guests. The findings from that meeting are reported here.

Annex – Polling results in detail

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How Virtual IBANs Enhance the Growth of B2B Cross-Border E-commerce Businesses

One of the more vexing problems of the modern age when it comes to international business is that regulatory regimes often do not keep pace with technological innovation.

Nonetheless, novel solutions to B2B cross-border business have emerged in the form of virtual IBANs, financial instruments that drive the innovation economy and enable new, powerful business models.

Here we have outlined three ways that virtual IBANs are transforming the way companies do business locally and abroad:

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KYC Done Right Means Competitiveness and Business Growth

When it comes to digital banking and compliance, robust KYC practices not only prevent fraud and financial losses but also strengthen a firm’s ability to conduct business with confidence.

This is typically because of the four key elements of strong KYC practices that make sure firms know who they’re doing business with and what to expect from that relationship.

We’ve identified the four essential elements of effective compliance in KYC practices for digital banking in order to show you how they help improve the competitiveness of businesses of any size or scale:

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Driving Forces and Technology Trends Behind Fintech Innovations in 2021

The year 2020 saw many of the innovations and prognostications of analysts come true as contactless payments and digital banking solutions drove the field of Fintech innovations. Looking ahead, however, 2021 could be the year that consolidates much of this growth and prepares the economy for the next stage of digitization.

We at Monneo have identified five major trends that we think are driving the Fintech innovations in digital banking, in 2021 and beyond:

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The New Era of Custom Business Payment Solutions and the Impact on Digital Banking Services

The digital banking era is upending traditional payment solutions and transforming the global financial industry in the process. And this is on both the corporate and consumer level with changes in payments solutions reaching into every facet of the international economy.

These innovations in digital banking are not only enabling increased efficiencies and expediting capital flows at a rate previously unthinkable but also are leading the way in changing the dynamic and level of depth of the business-customer relationship.

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