Finovate

MARCH 19, 2025

A newly announced partnership between core banking provider Tuum and full-cycle verification platform Sumsub will give banks, fintechs, and financial institutions the ability to streamline customer onboarding and enhance fraud prevention without adding friction to the user experience. Andrew Sever is the company’s Founder and CEO.

Fraud Prevention

The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

In addition, the process of integrating Zūm Rails APIs into Western Union’s network is set to enable the company to drive real-time movement of funds for Western Union customers using Interac eTransfer. Free Headlines in your E-mail Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

Cross-Border

The Payments Association

JUNE 11, 2025

The platform risk paradox: Managing digital commerce fraud at scale 12 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? A shift toward AI-driven, integrated fraud management systems aligned with tightening UK regulations. Why is it important? What’s next?

Risk

Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

But in China, a new and uniquely local solution is emerging—one that bridges the gap between barcode payments and hardware-intensive NFC wallets. Meet Alipay’s “Alipay Tap”—a smart, simple, and surprisingly elegant solution to streamline offline payments and services using NFC reader mode. What Is “Alipay Tap”? Apple Pay)?

Payment APIs and Integration

The Paypers

JUNE 12, 2025

Following this announcement, the collaboration is set to enable IFX Payments to leverage Form3’s Verification of Payee (VoP) solution for SEPA accounts, aiming to strengthen its defences against payment fraud and aligning with the Instant Payments Regulation mandate.

Payee

The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

The agreement brings together OpenPayd’s API-based payment and banking services with Circle’s infrastructure for USDC, a dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by regulated affiliates of Circle. The primary goal of this partnership is to support cross-border transactions and digital asset operations for enterprise clients.

Stablecoins

The Paypers

JUNE 12, 2025

The move allows institutions using Qualy to manage incoming and outgoing international transactions directly within the software, including payments from students and remittances to education agents. A central feature of the integration is automated reconciliation.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Paypers

JUNE 16, 2025

It has pick-up locations in over 45 countries, with a strong presence in Australia, where it has now integrated Volt via payment infrastructure provider Optty. When selecting PayTo, customers enter their PayID or bank details to set up a payment agreement and initiate the payment directly from their bank account.

Instant Payments

Finextra

JULY 28, 2025

Drawing insights from contemporary industry reports and practical applications, we dissect the dual role of AI in combating financial crime and the transformative perception of regulation as an innovation enabler. AI is proving crucial in new and evolving areas of financial crime.

AI

The Fintech Times

APRIL 24, 2025

Versapay , an Accounts Receivable (AR) platform, has appointed Elizabeth Bramlage as chief marketing officer.With over 15 years of experience leading marketing for high-growth fintech and payments companies, Bramlage most recently served as CMO at ComplyAdvantage , a global provider of financial crime compliance technology.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

MARCH 12, 2025

The UK governments decision to scrap the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and merge its functions into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has divided opinion across the financial sector. The PSR had outlived its usefulness Tony Craddock, director general, The Payments Association Some see it as a long-overdue correction.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 8, 2025

Miracle, formerly CTO, CISO and chief AI officer at Sutton Bank , will oversee engineering, infrastructure and cybersecurity, with a focus on scaling Thread’s embedded banking platform and delivering secure, compliant and API-first banking solutions. million daily transactions and 11 million monthly active users.

FinTech

Finextra

AUGUST 7, 2025

Governance and senior management integrity are frequently weak. e-money, payment institutions). AI and Fraud: The Dark Side of Innovation AI is revolutionising finance — and crime: Criminals are using AI to generate fake documents , simulate identities, and execute deepfake-based onboarding.

Risk

Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

The UK government recently outlined its National Payments Vision – plans for a next-generation payments ecosystem, built around open banking and emerging technology. Real-time payments, algorithmic trading and AI-powered services require networks that operate in milliseconds. This approach also mirrors wider national ambitions.

FinTech

The Paypers

JUNE 11, 2025

Following this announcement, the collaboration is expected to enable businesses across the globe to offer Affirm’s flexible, transparent, and secure pay over time options through the use of a single API integration.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Paypers

JUNE 13, 2025

Subscribe News | Interviews | Voice of the Industry | Watch & Learn | Reports | Cross Border Ecommerce Research | Company Database | Events News Paynt acquires E-xact to support North American presence Friday 13 June 2025 13:21 CET | News European payment services provider Paynt has acquired Canadian payment gateway E-xact Transactions.

Acquirers

The Paypers

JUNE 19, 2025

The system was designed to offer instant, one-tap payments through Open Banking infrastructure. The new system enables consumers to make payments directly from their bank accounts without needing to enter card details or go through redirects.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Paypers

JUNE 19, 2025

In addition, the collaboration aims to optimise the manner in which financial institutions across the region of Europe access the spectrum of Open Banking features quickly and securely while enabling integration with an API-first and modular core banking platform.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025 18 July 2025 by Payments Intelligence Introduction Regulatory developments continue apace in the payments industry, ushering in a period of intensified complexity and strategic significance. Tackling this with tactical fixes only deepens the challenge.

Regulations

The Fintech Times

MAY 28, 2025

From AI-driven compliance to the realities of scaling in the cloud, Temenos shares insights into whats influencing payments strategy in 2025, and where banks are still hitting resistance. Innovation in payments Innovation, Fennell says, is often about accelerating growth. All of that is part of innovating in the payment space.

Compliance

The Paypers

JUNE 13, 2025

Subscribe News | Interviews | Voice of the Industry | Watch & Learn | Reports | Cross Border Ecommerce Research | Company Database | Events News Xsolla and Defold introduce SDK for browser game payments Friday 13 June 2025 12:31 CET | News Xsolla has partnered with Defold to introduce a software development kit (SDK) for browser game payments.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finextra

AUGUST 4, 2025

Globally, fintechs and banks spend an estimated $206 billion per year on financial crime compliance. with little integration. In other words, poor tech integration is silently taxing compliance departments. What do these inefficiencies look like in practice?

AML

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 14, 2025

Malrait was previously managing director and global head of market structure and innovation for financial markets at ING Bank. Payment company Unzer has appointed Goetz Moeller as chief financial officer. Moeller will lead Unzers finance department, overseeing financial planning and analytics, treasury and accounting.

FinTech

The Paypers

JUNE 13, 2025

The integration with Upvest’s API marks the company’s expansion into the domestic investment landscape, adding new asset classes for its retail user base. The move enables UK-based users of the Webull platform to invest in local equities with minimum investments starting at GBP 1.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finextra

JUNE 10, 2025

FCA appoints deputy chief executive Sarah Pritchard has been appointed deputy chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The new role has been created to reflect the FCA’s expanding remit, with the integration of the Payment Systems Regulator, regulation of stablecoin and crypto firms as well as buy now pay later activities.

Payment APIs and Integration

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Surecomp , which works in global trade finance solutions for banks, has announced financial crime solution ThetaRay as the newest partner for its Marketplace platform, according to a press release. The service also offers an open API interface and wide-spanning access to the company's Marketplace.

Financial Crimes

Finovate

JULY 30, 2024

Financial crime detection technology company, ThetaRay, has acquired screening specialist, Screena. AI-powered financial crime detection technology company, ThetaRay , has acquired European screening company, Screena. ThetaRay made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2015. Reynolds was named CEO of the company last summer.

Financial Crimes

FICO

AUGUST 12, 2021

Financial Institutions’ compliance officers and teams should be concerned that Open Banking may render their existing AML/CTF and KYC compliance programs inadequate. These companies interface with FIs’ systems – via any method from regulated Open Banking APIs to unmonitored screen scraping – in order to access data or transactional functions.

Financial Crimes

Fintech News

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a recent webinar hosted by the Fintech News Network, experts from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Wise, Airwallex, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions explored the latest trends and developments in cross-border payments, emphasizing the pioneering role of Southeast Asia in this rapidly evolving landscape.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 2, 2024

ComplyTek introduces an advanced transaction screening solution for instant payments , designed to ensure compliance and mitigate fraud within the critical 10-second processing window. Pre-Payment Security : Device fingerprinting, biometric authentication, and real-time monitoring to prevent identity fraud and account takeover.

Instant Payments

Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here are the finalists for the SFF 2024 awards: Category #1 Corporates – Emerging Fintech Finalists Fluid Financial Pte Ltd Fluid is a Singapore-based B2B Buy Now Pay Later solution, helping suppliers (both traditional and marketplace platforms) to finance buyers’ purchases at the point of checkout. ThitsaWorks Pte.

AI

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Napier , the London-based global financial crime compliance regtech, has served up new solutions with advanced analytics and intelligent automation embedded into their configuration. But with Napier Continuum Live, they are getting the full, feature-rich platform pre-configured to their needs. also added. “It

AML

The Fintech Times

JUNE 27, 2024

For the most effective results, this background check must be integrated seamlessly into the onboarding process to ensure consumers don’t have a bad experience and in turn loss their business. Synthetic identities are used to commit a wide range of digital and financial crimes such as money laundering , payment frauds and promo abuse.

Payment APIs and Integration

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The solution, which secured about 20,000 SMBs to pilot the technology in the last year, provides deposit account and payment solutions that aim to compete with traditional banks that, as CEO and Co-founder Eyal Lifshitz described, "nickel-and-dime" businesses. Its APIs also support account verification and payment capabilities.

CFPB

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

GIACT works in identity verification, and Refinitiv plans to offer its EPIC platform alongside the company's own World-Check to give customers comprehensive services to address money laundering risks, prevent monetary loss and look out for payments fraud, the two companies said in a news release.

Fraud Prevention

Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Napier , the London-based financial crime compliance RegTech, is pleased to announce it has been selected as the anti-money laundering (AML) platform for noqodi , the leading Digital Wallet and Payments Solution based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Digital Payments

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 9, 2024

The AU10TIX AML solution aims to address the significant business risks posed by financial crimes such as money laundering, fraud, and terrorism financing, the solution incorporates rigorous internal quality checks and a proprietary decision-making mechanism to filter out unreliable data.

AML