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How Overlay Services Add New Opportunities In Open Banking

PYMNTS

In a PYMNTS interview, according to Sean Devaney, VP of banking and financial markets at consulting and IT firm CGI , the real pickup of Open Banking is only just beginning with the emergence of so-called overlay services. But my argument is that, if you get the overlay services right, nobody needs to know about Open Banking.

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Real Time Heats Up In B2B, While Blockchain Gains Traction

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That includes advancements in Canada's upcoming Real-Time Rail, as well as adoption by Transcard of Mastercard's Track Business Payment Service to facilitate real-time, account-to-account transfers for businesses. In an announcement , FinTech-as-a-Service company Rapyd rolled out its Rapyd Protect solution.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

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We have not seen the use cases or the digital overlay services rolled out,” he noted. Instead of the payroll going out Wednesday and you get it every second Friday, as soon as that payroll hits on Wednesday, the payment would be cleared and settled into your account,” he said. consumers).

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How are Financial Firms Like Visa, Swift, Pay.UK and Mangopay Using AI to Combat Financial Fraud?

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The standards body confirmed the pilot in June 2023, after contacting industry partners to test the benefits of the service with a group of participating banks and payment service providers. To reduce the scale of the crime that is happening we need a unified approach, and this future service will be a major step forward.”

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Cyberattackers Go Global To Steal Company Cash

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reports , an accounting assistant, who had access to the company's online bank account, allegedly manipulated documents to make her crime appear as if payments were being made to legitimate suppliers when in truth the assistant was moving company funds to her personal account. According to Stuff.co.nz

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Pay.UK’s Fraud Detection Pilot Exceeds Expectations, Detecting Over £112m Worth of Fraud

Fintech Finance

The initiative trialled a new overlay service which will allow all UK banks and building societies to analyse money flows and use predictive intelligence to proactively detect fraud and help prevent crime before it occurs, safely and securely. This would see over £112m worth of fraud detected in a year.

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APIs Help FIs Keep Pace With B2B Clients’ Faster Payment Needs

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Corporate API connectivity can complement existing connectivity solutions to offer the immediacy and fluidity that treasurers need by enabling urgent transactions, allowing access to payments tracking, account balance and transaction details in real time, she added.