April, 2024

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Deploying an OCSP architecture with high availability

Axway

Environments mandated by public key infrastructure (PKI) often require an online certificate status protocol (OCSP) architecture. Government agencies rely on OCSP to validate digital certificates. The same holds for financial and healthcare organizations.

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Remote Work Business Continuity: Best Practices

VISTA InfoSec

Incorporating remote work among companies has been one of the developments in recent years. In fact, a staggering 98% of employees express their desire to have this kind of dynamic in their jobs. The shift is here to stay as more and more organizations are adopting it as part of their work culture because of its many advantages. This integration is essential as employers move forward with their business continuity plans.

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Fed seeks 8,000 financial institutions for FedNow

Payments Dive

About 700 financial institutions have connected to the Fed’s instant payment network since last July, with at least 1,000 more in the pipeline, a FedNow official said this week.

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Coffee with the Council Podcast: Help Shape the Future of Payment Security as a PCI SSC Participating Organization

PCI Security Standards

Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I'm Alicia Malone, Senior Manager of Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. At our Community Meetings in 2022, the Council announced a significant change to its Participating Organization program. Today, I am joined by the Council's Senior Vice President of Education and Engagement, Mark Meissner who has been spearheading this effort, and is going to talk about some of these changes over the past couple of years, and how t

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

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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HSBC and PayPal tackle quantum-safe cryptography in payments

Finextra

HSBC and PayPal are among the founding member of a new working group investigating the adoption of quantum-safe cryptography in the payments industry.

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UK Banks Urged to Act Now Ahead of New Cross-Border Payments Legislation ISO 20022 to Prevent Exclusion from International Payment Networks

Fintech Finance

With just over 18 months to go until the ISO 20022 compliance deadline, leading Quality Engineering company, Roq , is urging UK financial institutions to take the necessary measures now to finalise their plans and focus on the execution of a programme that is, by all published metrics, some way behind the curve. Failure to meet the date has major ramifications for individual organisations and perhaps the UK’s financial services sector in part or whole.

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Laos and Brunei Joins ASEAN’s Initiative for Real-Time Cross Border Payments

Fintech News

The Central Bank of Brunei Darussalam (BDCB) and the Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) have formally joined the Regional Payment Connectivity (RPC) initiative. This expansion brings the number of ASEAN central banks involved in the RPC to eight, joining the ranks of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The initiative, which began in late 2022, aims to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, transparent, and inclusive, leveraging technologies like QR code-based

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Real-time consumer payments need standards to rise

Payments Dive

To make instant payments a reality for consumers, the payments industry must work together to develop a common framework for the transactions, top industry executives say.

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Ramp raises another $150 million co-led by Khosla, Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation

TechCrunch Fintech

Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. New investor Khosla Ventures and existing backer Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also included participation from new backers Sequoia Capital, Greylock and 8VC. Other existing investors Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Sands Capital, […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Central banks embark on tokenisation project

Finextra

The Bank for International Settlements together with seven central banks is embarking on a major project to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

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

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UK Finance Taps R3 and Quant for Blockchain Prototype to Advance Digital Payments Infrastructure

The Fintech Times

The UK’s Regulated Liability Network has chosen R3 , a company specialising in enterprise distributed ledger technology and services, as well as Quant , a blockchain provider for finance, to develop the technology prototype for its experimental stage. This initiative, spearheaded by UK Finance and backed by EY , aims to advance regulatory solutions within the financial sector.

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Supporting Webhooks for event-driven architectures with Amplify API Management

Axway

Axway’s Amplify API Management platform is a robust and scalable solution that caters to a broad range of security, API, and application lifecycle management needs.

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Same Day ACH and B2B Propel ACH Network Growth in the First Quarter

NACHA

Same Day ACH and B2B Propel ACH Network Growth in the First Quarter mkahn@nacha.

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Fed courts nonbanks for FedNow growth

Payments Dive

The Federal Reserve is stressing the importance of fintechs and core providers for the future expansion of its new instant payments system FedNow.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Inside LemFi’s play to be fintech to the Global South diaspora

TechCrunch Fintech

The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama affecting even its most promising-looking startups. But recently, LemFi, the Nigeria-based fintech that provides money transfer services to African migrants, is shaping up as an example of a bounce-back — and a […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Santander brings Openbank digital brand to US

Finextra

Santander is launching its Openbank digital offering across the United States and Mexico.

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Crypto Adoption in Southeast Asia is On the Rise

Fintech News

Crypto in Southeast Asia is increasingly popular among investors. The region is home to a complex financial landscape that’s characterized by a significant portion of the population being underbanked or unbanked, alongside a digitally-savvy youth demographic with high mobile Internet connectivity. These dynamics set the stage for the burgeoning adoption of crypto-assets and decentralized finance (DeFi), hailed for their potential to enhance financial inclusion.

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Automate 90% of your file transfer operations with Axway’s self-service MFT

Axway

MFT software offers a lot of powerful capabilities that enable the secure and reliant file transfer automation that businesses need. But there’s a notable gap that surrounds many MFT operations: business-friendly self-service workflows and collaboration.

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Top Strategies to Future-Proof & Sustain Your Merchant Services Portfolio

Build a sustainable merchant services portfolio with practical strategies to ensure long-term success. Diversify across industries to spread risk and stabilize income, balancing high-risk and low-risk clients for a robust mix. Combine large and small merchants to create a resilient payment portfolio, leveraging each type's strengths. Foster long-term relationships through exceptional service and personalized support.

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How Has AI Impacted the Embedded Finance Space in Recent Years?

The Fintech Times

This April, The Fintech Times is focusing on all things embedded finance, the integration of financial services into non-financial products and services. As the space rapidly develops, we look to highlight the latest developments, initiatives and challenges embedded finance has to offer and overcome across the globe. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated discussion across all fintech sub-sectors for at least the last couple of years and continues to do so.

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Amazon to drop ‘just walk out’ at some grocery stores

Payments Dive

The e-commerce giant will replace the grab-and-go tech with its smart shopping carts in its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, a tech media outlet reported.

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TransferGo raises $10M to expand its remittance business in Asia, doubling valuation

TechCrunch Fintech

TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million growth funding round from Taiwan-based investor Taiwania Capital, with a view to expanding in the Asia-Pacific region. It last raised a $50M Series C funding round in 2021. TransferGo claims the new investment doubles its valuation to […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Chips migrates to ISO 20022 message format

Finextra

The Clearing House's Chips private-sector high-value clearing and settlement system has migrated to the ISO 20022 messaging format.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Unmasking the Threat of Deepfake Scams in the Financial Sector of Asia

Fintech News

In the contemporary digital world, the proliferation of deepfake technology and generative AI heralds an era fraught with online scam challenges, notably within the financial sector in Asia. This burgeoning technology, characterized by its ability to create indistinguishably fraudulent audio and visual content, not only complicates the process of identity verification but also emboldens cybercriminals, precipitating substantial financial losses.

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There is no best API style. But there is one best solution for all of them.

Axway

With the combination of traditional patterns and emerging newer API styles , customers increasingly need to work with and govern a variety of APIs. This is part of a larger movement toward a more expansive view of API management.

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Unveiling the Future: Insights from Token2049 on Crypto, Web3 and the Evolution of Finance

The Fintech Times

The Fintech Times recently attended Token2049, the premier crypto event held annually in Dubai and Singapore where founders and executives of leading Web3 companies and projects meet, network and share their views on the industry. There were several opportunities for us to catch up with industry leaders throughout the event, to understand the overlap between the traditional financial services sector and this fast-expanding world of crypto.

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Gen Z clings to new payment tools

Payments Dive

Gen Zers will abandon a transaction in one out of two cases if their preferred payment method isn’t available, says an EY payments specialist, citing the firm’s survey results.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

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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Stripe, doubling down on embedded finance, de-couples payments from the rest of its stack

TechCrunch Fintech

Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65 billion and a whopping $1 trillion in total processed payment volume last year alone. But fintech is fragmented and a fast-moving target, and with competitors chipping away at its place, Stripe is […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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National Bank of Iraq goes live with Temenos core banking and payments

Finextra

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) today announced that National Bank of Iraq (NBI), part of the Capital Bank Group, has successfully gone live with Temenos core banking and payments.

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How Next-Gen Payment Platforms Are Leading the Shift from Legacy Systems

Fintech News

In the rapidly evolving financial services landscape, the journey from entrenched legacy systems to cutting-edge digital payment platforms is a technological upgrade and a fundamental transformation. This transition embodies a shift towards fostering innovation, operational excellence, and superior customer engagement. It’s a strategic move that redefines the essence of banking in the digital era.

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Not-so-tall tales from the MFT support desk

Axway

When Kostadin Galabov, Senior Director of Technical Customer Support at Axway, and I met over drinks a little while ago, we realized there’s a story we want to tell.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

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