Payments Dive

JULY 10, 2024

The retailer’s customers will still have six payment options after the change takes effect in about a week.

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PCI Security Standards

JULY 10, 2024

The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has long included requirements for external vulnerability scans conducted by PCI Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs), and these requirements have also been included in prior versions of some Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs). For PCI DSS v4.x, requirements for external vulnerability scans performed by an ASV were added to SAQ A to help address common breaches that are targeting SAQ A merchant environments at alarming rates.

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Payments Dive

JULY 10, 2024

Fresh off its biggest acquisition ever, Payroc is pressing ahead with more acquisitions and preparations for an initial public offering.

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Fintech News

JULY 10, 2024

With help from the Singapore Police Force, Maybank has intervened in 19 scam cases from March 2023 to June 2024, preventing the loss of S$1,215,600. One notable case occurred on 2 July at Maybank’s Choa Chu Kang branch, a 75-year-old retiree attempted to prematurely withdraw S$230,000 from his fixed deposit. Assistant Service Manager Lee Yong Jie noticed inconsistencies in the retiree’s reasons for the withdrawal and referred the case to Maybank’s digital banking fraud team.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

Consumers and businesses sent $1 billion in instant payments on June 28 over the RTP® network, a single day record for the largest instant payments system in the United States, operated by The Clearing House.

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Fintech News

JULY 10, 2024

Sumsub, a global verification provider, has announced strategic partnerships with several resellers in Southeast Asia including Nexus Technologies in the Philippines, PT Secure Pasifik Teknologi in Indonesia, and Spectrum Edge in Malaysia. These partnerships aim to enhance fraud prevention efforts and strengthen the business environment in the region.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Leading corporate payouts platform, Onbe and ZSuite Tech, a high-growth fintech innovator with a focus on commercial escrow and subaccounting, today announce its partnership. The partnership will provide an embedded digital disbursement option for the more than 90 U.S. banks that use ZSuite Tech, allowing them to offer a simplified and cost-efficient mechanism for issuing payments through popular methods including virtual cards, ACH, push to card, and mobile wallets.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

Travelex, a market leading foreign exchange brand, has added a further seven currencies to its pre-paid currency card, the Travelex Money Card (TMC).

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

AFFIN Group (“AFFIN” or “the Group”) today announced a partnership with ACI Worldwide , a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, to modernise the Bank’s real-time payment capabilities. In attendance at the contract signing to represent YBhg. Datuk Wan Razly Abdullah was Encik Risham Akashah Bin Kamaruzaman, Group Chief Operating Officer of Affin Bank Berhad, and ACI Worldwide was represented by Mr.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

At EBAday 2024, Gilbert Verdian, Founder and CEO, Quant, explores how programmable payments can enhance the efficiency of both personal and business financial transactions. Highlighting the important role of the Regulated Liability Network (RLN) in the UK, the discussion turns to advancing programmable payments using both existing and tokenised bank deposits.

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Papara , a leading fintech in Turkey, has partnered with Thales , the global leader in advanced Technologies, to deploy Thales’ innovative SketchMyCard solution. Papara users now have the freedom to design unique and personalised payment cards that reflect their individuality, creativity and lifestyle, complemented by Papara’s highly successful and well-designed range of payment cards.

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Fintech Review

JULY 10, 2024

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) platforms are revolutionising financial services, particularly in emerging markets where traditional banking infrastructure is lacking. These platforms leverage blockchain technology to create open, accessible, and secure financial systems that operate without the need for intermediaries like banks. As a result, DeFi is gaining traction rapidly due to its ability to provide financial services to those who have been historically underserved by conventional banking sys

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

FREENOW , the leading European taxi app, has integrated Alipay+ cross-border mobile payment solutions with its taxi cab services in seven European countries: Spain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, France, Greece and Austria. The partnership enhances the travel experience for Asian visitors to Europe, as the region benefits from peak tourism this summer. Alipay+, a suite of cross-border mobile payments and digitalization technology solutions and official sponsor of UEFA EURO 2024 , has developed a mini-

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Bank Automation

JULY 10, 2024

Demand for real-time payments continues to grow globally, and the launch of the Federal Reserve’s real-time payments rail, FedNow, one year ago offers another avenue to send and receive funds instantly. Real-time transactions are predicted to reach 575.1 billion by 2028, with a compound annual growth rate of 16.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

The Medical Tourism Association will launch a one-stop platform with Mastercard payment capabilities to bring more convenience, flexibility, and trust to the medical tourism industry Responding to the growing need to simplify access to global healthcare for medical tourists, Mastercard and the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) have announced an exclusive partnership to modernize the end-to-end healthcare experience for patients and providers around the world.

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Bank Automation

JULY 10, 2024

Banco Santander and Google have teamed up to offer an AI course. The on-demand course is live on the bank’s Santander Open Academy Platform and is free to anyone over 16, according to a July 9 Santander release.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

In a letter sent to customers, Metro Bank have announced they are to remove personal credit cards from their product range. As part of an internal review by the bank, the letter to customers stated: “We’re continuing to look at the best ways to simplify and streamline our products to ensure that we always provide the best service and value for our customers” All Metro Bank customers who hold the personal credit product will be affected by this change and all cardholder accounts will

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

enza, the innovative payments technology company liberating African banks from the constraints of legacy technology and operating models, and TerraPay a leading global money movement company, are excited to announce a strategic partnership to transform the payments landscape of Africa.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Network International (Network) , the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has announced the introduction of new Business Payment Solutions for businesses, corporations, and travel industry companies in the UAE. Launched in partnership with Mastercard , the new solutions will enable Network International to tap into Mastercard’s global digital payment expertise including card offerings, expense management and virtual card innovations; enabling Netwo

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Finovate

JULY 10, 2024

The role of AI in financial services is rapidly evolving. Not since the heady days of the Internet boom has an emerging technology so powerfully captured the imagination of companies, investors, workers, and consumers around the world. As financial services companies search for ways to take advantage of AI to improve efficiency, better understand data, and engage more proactively and personally with their customers, it is all the more worthwhile for us to listen to those entrepreneurs, analysts,

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Thunes , a global money movement innovator, today welcomes LianLian Global , a leading Chinese e-commerce cross-border payment service provider, to the Thunes Global Network. The Chinese payment company is offering a new solution, the LianLian Global Payout Service (LGPS), that leverages Thunes’ fully compliant payment network to facilitate payouts to digital wallets and bank accounts in over 130 countries.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

The ongoing deline in fintech investment continues in the first half of 2024 but shows signs of bottoming out, acccording to new figures from Innovate Finance.

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Consumers and businesses sent $1 billion in instant payments on June 28 over the RTP® network, a single day record for the largest instant payments system in the United States, operated by The Clearing House. The RTP network also experienced a record 82 million transactions in the second quarter, valued at a record $55 billion, as financial institution customers continued to use the network for all types of instant payments.

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Nanonets

JULY 10, 2024

This tutorial blog examines some of the use cases of key-value pair extractions, the traditional and current approaches to solving the task, and a sample implementation with code. You encounter KVPs more often than you might realize. Remember the last time you flipped through a dictionary? Each word (the key) is paired with its definition (the value).

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

payabl., one of Europe’s leading PayTech companies, today announced the appointment of Esfira Zakas as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The newly created role supports payabl.’s ambitious plans to continue its rapid growth across Europe. Esfira has been promoted from Head of Marketing into the new role, evidencing payabl.’s commitment to leveraging internal talent and fostering inclusive leadership.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 10, 2024

Offa , the Sharia-compliant bridge finance fintech, has launched a new service in accordance with Islamic finance principles. Muslim and non-Muslim property investors will now be able to make fast funding decisions via a paperless process as a result of its buy-to-let (BTL) finance offering. Muslims cannot charge interest and investment into sectors deemed harmful to society – such as alcohol, tobacco and the arms trade.

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Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

Research released today by emerchantpay , a leading global payment service provider and acquirer, has revealed the factors influencing how consumers choose to pay online. Top concerns over security (60%) and privacy (41%) were closely followed by considerations for speed (38%) and efficiency (34%). Security, privacy, speed and efficiency are all offered by Open Banking payments – above and sometimes beyond the capabilities offered by other payment methods.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

Berlin-based brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets has raised €12 million in a funding round led by CommerzVentures.

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The Paypers

JULY 10, 2024

German-based mobility services provider FREENOW has integrated Alipay+ with its taxi cab services in seven European countries.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2024

White label buy now, pay later player Divido has been declared insolvent.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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