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Western Union expands online money transfer in Europe

The Western Union Company (WU), a leader in global payment services, announced the launch of new transactional web sites in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia.

11 August 2015

Company update/Online banking

Lloyds partners Cambridge Judge Business School on innovation programme

Lloyds Banking Group and the Cambridge Judge Business School undertook a unique collaboration to look at innovative digital opportunities for the future of banking and our customers.

05 August 2015

Company update/Online banking

Vasco and Sumitomo Mitsui to create secure mobile banking app

Vasco Data Security (NASDAQ: VDSI) today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will provide their online retail banking customers with a highly-secure mobile banking solution for their smartphones developed with Vasco's Digipass for Apps.

05 August 2015

Company update/Online banking

Fico software puts card controls in hands of consumers

Fico (NYSE:FICO), the analytics and decision management software company, today introduced Fico Consumer Fraud Control, a new solution for banks that enables their cardholders to configure card usage controls and transactional alerts via the bank’s mobile app.

05 August 2015

Company update/Online banking

VSoft launches Iris omni-channel banking

VSoft Corporation, a global provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, launched IRIS, an omni-channel platform spanning across all devices and channels for both personal and business banking.

04 August 2015

Company update/Online banking

WorldRemit debuts mobile money transfers in Sri Lanka

WorldRemit, the ‘WhatsApp of money’, today launches instant Mobile Money transfers to Sri Lanka.

24 July 2015

Company update/Online banking

ONPEX signs deal with Latvian bank

ONPEX, The Online Payment Exchange, has announced details of a partnership with Latvijas pasta banka, an innovative and fast growing Latvian bank.

22 July 2015

Company update/Online banking

Mint Payments collaborates with online payments provider

Mint Payments is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with eWAY, whereby eWAY will licence Mint’s “card present” capability to distribute their own mobile point of sale (“mPOS”) solution.

21 July 2015

Company update/Online banking

RedCloud and TSI Global team up for African m-banking venutre

RedCloud Technologies and TSI Global Technologies have signed a Partnership to bring secure mobile financial solutions to the banked and unbanked across the West Coast of Africa.

21 July 2015

News/Online banking

SAP Financial Services Forum Focus: Matthias Kröner, Fidor Bank

Co-founder of DAB Bank, continental Europe's first online broker, and once the youngest CEO and executive board member of a German bank in German banking history Kröner's career has blended the world of banking, financial services and technology.

19 June 2015

News/Online banking

US proximity payments will rise, but slowly says Aite

The US retail m-commerce sector will be worth $536.5bn by 2020, from a base of $112.5bn in 2015, Aite Group is predicting in its new report entitled 'Mobile Proximity Payments: A Disruption in the Force'. It is predicting the specific mobile proximity segment will lag behind, however, reaching $487bn by 2020 from just $7.5bn now.

15 May 2015

Company update/Online banking

FCA warns users off Zopa clone

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to consumers about a website cloning Zopa, the popular P2P lender.

13 May 2015

Company update/Online banking

Orwell selects Interoute cloud platform for cross-border current account

Interoute, owner and operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has announced that it has been chosen by Orwell, a pan-European financial services group, to host its new online current account service ipagoo.

07 May 2015

Company update/Online banking

First Internet Bank offers Touch ID for customers

First Internet Bank, a premier provider of online banking services nationwide, announced it is providing Touch ID functionality for customers using its personal mobile banking application.

07 May 2015

Company update/Online banking

Zenith Software launches Banc724-Digital banking platform

Bengaluru based Zenith Software Ltd. (ZSL), a Global IT Solutions and Services Company, has announced the launch of their latest banking solution Banc724-Digital, which will enable the banking industry to offer its customer a digital experience and achieve operational excellence.

27 April 2015

News/Online banking

£12.8 billion to be sent through digital banking by 2020

The Future Trends in UK Banking report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and Fiserv predicts that the use of online, mobile and digital banking will continue to increase in the coming years.

20 April 2015

Company update/Online banking

Nationwide chooses eggPlant for mobile and digital banking testing

TestPlant, the maker of the eggPlant range of software quality tools, today announced that it has signed a deal with Nationwide, one of the UK’s largest financial institutions, to support the company’s continued digital transformation.

14 April 2015

Company update/Online banking

Lloyds pledges 20,000 digital skills staffers on roster by 2017

As part of its 2015 Helping Britain Prosper Plan, Lloyds Banking Group has this week announced plans for around one in every four of its colleagues to be dedicated to helping people and organisations use the internet to improve digital skills and financial capability. This substantial commitment will deliver 20,000 Digital Champions by 2017.

02 April 2015

Company update/Online banking

FD buys Affinity for £7.7 million

First Derivatives (FD), a software and consulting company, has bought Affinity Systems for CAD$14.5m (£7.7m) in a cash and share deal.

01 April 2015

Company update/Online banking

Defaqto swaps private equity owner

Defaqto Group, a benchmarking company that provides a number of ratings and data analysis services to financial institutions, has swapped its private equity owners after Foresight Group sold its share in the firm to the management, backed by a majority investment of £24.25m from UK PE firm Synova Capital.

01 April 2015