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Paytech, Retail

Nexi Joins Forces With Mastercard to Bolster Open Banking-Powered Payment Solutions Across Europe

March 11, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

Mastercard and Nexi are joining forces to build an integrated digital payment ecosystem by advancing Mastercard Open Banking-powered solutions that offer secure, seamless payment experiences with more choices for consumers when shopping online. Bart Willaert, EVP of international open banking […]


Paytech, Wholesale

Egypt’s Alexbank partners Mastercard to advance payments strategy

March 7, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

The collaboration will also see the Intesa Sanpaolo group bank leverage its new partner’s technology to further develop its fraud detection tools and cybersecurity capabilities. Mastercard says the deal hopes to modernise the Alexbank’s cardholders’ “payment experience” by expanding the […]


InsurTech, Paytech

Insurtech blip Launches in the UK, Offering Policyholders a Share of its Profits

February 22, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

As prices, bills, interest rates and everything else in between become more expensive, blip is hoping to support small businesses by offering fairly priced and transparent insurance policies. To this end, blip will look to provide a platform for small […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

How Will the Cross-Border Payments Space Evolve in 2024? With Swift, OpenPayd, Chargebee and More

February 21, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

Having reflected on what the top priority is for businesses looking to enter the cross-border payments space, we now turn our attention to the future, and how the sector will evolve in 2024. Practical improvements await Rachel Levi, global head […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Post Investment: Can Fintech Rebuild on Value, Not Hype?

February 12, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

In the middling science fiction novel Those Who Remain, author G. Michael Hopf said: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” This quote (which in modern […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

NovoPayment Takes Next Step in Mexico With Mastercard Certification

February 6, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

The Network Enablement Partner (NEP) programme is a Mastercard initiative that enables service providers — the vendors of Mastercard-licensed issuers and acquirers who typically have a fully indirect relationship with Mastercard — to play a pivotal role in expediting product […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Top 7 use cases of GenAI in FinTech

February 1, 2024

Via: Fintech News

In 2024, the fusion of AI and financial technology is not just a wave of the future – it’s a rapidly evolving present. Artificial Intelligence, especially the latest generation (Gen AI), is revolutionizing the FinTech sector, reshaping how we interact […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

State of play: payments

February 1, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

This month, Philip takes an in-depth look at payments. It’s no secret that payments is my favourite aspect of fintech. Judging the PayTech Awards is one of the highlights of my year as I get an early glimpse at how […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

US Cross-Border Payments Channels to Africa Bolstered by Onafriq and Alviere Partnership

January 19, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

The importance of remittances and cross-border payments cannot be understated in Africa. According to the World Bank, remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa are expected to have increased by about 1.9 per cent in 2023 to $54billion. Onafriq selected Alviere for […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Tulip launches Tulip Pay powered by Stripe

January 16, 2024

Via: ThePaypers

Cloud-based retail solutions provider Tulip has announced the launch of Tulip Pay to support in-person retail transactions. Tulip Pay is a self-contained payment system powered by Stripe, a business financial infrastructure platform designed to be simple and quick to deploy, […]


Paytech, Retail

Ravelin Finds 37% of Consumers Will Take Advantage of Retail Loopholes

January 16, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

“It’s telling that a significant proportion of fraudsters think retailers themselves enable the practice. “Retailers must strike a delicate balance between facilitating sales and minimising fraud risks, but it’s clear from our findings that many don’t get it right. One […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

How fintech is expanding the borders of financial inclusion

January 16, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

However, while many firms seek to provide accessibility to basic financial services to the masses, not quite so many have sharpened their focus and risen to the challenge of making financial services more accessible and easier to use for disabled […]


Paytech, Retail

Spot Bitcoin ETF: Should retail investors be concerned?

January 12, 2024

Via: Cointelegraph

The approval of the first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the United States will open the crypto market to billions of dollars of institutional capital. According to public trading data, the total volume across the 10 approved spot Bitcoin […]


Paytech, Wholesale

European fintech funding round-up: Unbox, Rivero, ProjectPay & Ryft

January 12, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

Belgium-based fintech start-up Unbox has secured a €12 million Series A funding round led by HSBC Asset Management. The round also saw participation from SFPIM Relaunch, a subsidiary of the Belgian Sovereign Wealth Fund. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in […]


Paytech, Wholesale

The Perfect Payment Experience – Why Offering Multiple Options Is Key to Business Success

January 11, 2024

Via: The Fintech Times

Traditional payment methods such as cash are declining in popularity among all age groups. emerchantpay’s Global Payments Outlook revealed Europeans are showing a growing interest in other payment methods. Several European countries are making promising strides towards digital payment adoption. […]


Paytech, Retail

BitPay adds new cryptocurrencies for retail transactions

January 9, 2024

Via: Investing.com

BitPay, a leading cryptocurrency payment service provider, has expanded its digital currency offerings, enabling transactions with several new cryptocurrencies at high-end retailers. The company now supports Uniswap (UNI), Chainlink (LINK), Binance Coin (BNB), and Basic Attention Token (BAT (LON:BATS)), alongside […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

B2B payments should have the same convenience as B2C payments

January 9, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

It is well known that the propensity to pay is inextricably linked to the convenience of payment. Card payments offer payers convenience, but being subject to high fees, slow settlement times and chargebacks remain unattractive to B2B merchants, often operating […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

US paytech Kindcard eyes up OpenTransact acquisition

January 3, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

Founded in 2010 and based in New York, OpenTransact offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that facilitates payments and provides risk management solutions for high-risk industries such as CBD and gaming. Compatible with cryptocurrency, ACH, debit and credit card-based payments, the […]


Paytech, Retail

HSBC completes sale of French retail banking business to CCF

January 2, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

News of the sale first broke in May 2021, with HSBC reportedly having paid more than €1 billion for New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management to take its loss-making French branches off its hands. As of 1 January […]


Paytech, Retail

Crowded trade? Retail hasn’t been this long on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP in over a year

December 29, 2023

Via: Cointelegraph

The cryptocurrency market’s capitalization metric has been trading within a relatively narrow upward channel for the past 10 weeks. This indicates that bullish momentum has remained intact despite recently failing to break above the $1.7-trillion market cap resistance. In December, […]