Banfico

9 results about this entity

Period: 10 Aug 2021 - 16 Jul 2024

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The global approach to solving payee verification challenges

Albert Sitelis, Head of Partnerships & Market Development at Banfico, discusses the hurdles of meeting the IP regulation compliance deadline for payee verification at EBAday 2024. With over 5000 PSPs in Europe, connectivity remains a major challenge, despite existing name check systems in several countries. Sitelis stresses collaboration among schemes, technical providers, and banks as crucial, and advocates for broader industry involvement beyond banks to combat APP fraud globally, suggesting the need for enhanced data analysis beyond name matching.

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EBAday 2024: Collaboration is key to fraud management

In one of the closing sessions of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, panellists Marc Corbalan, VP of RTP analytics at Visa; Erwin Kulk, head of service development and management at EBA Clearing; Simone Löfgen, global head of payment platforms and managing director at Commerzbank; and Kannan Rasappan, founder and CEO of Banfico, explored innovations in cybersecurity in a panel titled ‘New approaches to fraud management’.

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IP Regulation, VoP and Interoperability: Preparing for the October 2025 Deadline

FinextraTV and Banfico’s CEO Kannan Rasappan explore all the current moving pieces of the puzzle for payments service providers in the EEA region, dive deep into the biggest challenges ahead of compliance with the incoming instant payments regulation in October 2025 and how Verification of Payee will impact this. VoP must also be considered as a fraud and financial crime mitigator, and the conversation turns to how cross border payments could open the door to potential scams and how banks must stop operating in siloes to prevent them. Banfico is running an upcoming webinar to delve deeper into these topics with other key players in the VOP landscape.

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Confirmation of Payee & Account Verification: Addressing the rising complexity of fraud

At NextGen Nordics 2024, FinextraTV and Kannan Rassapan, CEO of Banfico, dive into the evolving landscape of account verification services and Confirmation of Payee (CoP) implementation in the Nordics. Learn how these initiatives combat rising fraud and explore how current efforts in Europe and around the world can help to tackle fraudulent activities. Uncover the challenges associated with implementing a pan-European solution to meet regulatory requirements and ensure secure transactions across borders.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: What to expect from this year's conference

Finextra is returning to Stockholm for the annual NextGen Nordics event. Attendees can expect in-depth conversations on a variety of topics, and much more.

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NextGen Nordics: Signicat finds 68% of consumers abandon onboarding

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27th April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of selected top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Arion Bank Chooses Banfico OB Directory Plus to Verify TPPs

Arion Bank, one of Iceland’s leading universal banking groups, has chosen the Banfico OB Directory Plus to support its Open Banking and PSD2 access-to-account compliance process.

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Banfico enters Brazil

Banfico today announced the launch of its subsidiary in Brazil, Banfico Tecnologia Ltda in São Paulo.

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Banfico releases Open Banking directory

Banfico has launched an Open Banking Directory Service, enhancing its open banking portfolio, already being used by communities around the world.