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News/crime
Copenhagen Economics and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) have revealed flaws in the European Parliament’s unprecedented extension of liability beyond payments services providers (PSPs) to online platforms and electronic communication service providers, such as telecom operators, who would also have to refund victims of impersonation fraud.
12 hours
‘Smishing’ accounts for 94% of all fraud cases from January to October this year.
13 hours
News/payments
The European Payment Initiative, a bank-backed venture that was initially set up to build a rival to Mastercard and Visa in Europe, has enrolled 14 million users and processed eight million transactions since launch.
25 November 2024
News/inclusion
Canadian startup Beacon has opened the waitlist for its purpose-built digital wallet for immigrants moving to the country.
20 November 2024
News/cloud
Hot on the heels of its arrival in the US, Santander's Openbank digital offering has landed in Mexico.
19 November 2024
News/retail
Canadian fintech Neo Financial has raised C$110 million in equity and another C$250 million in debt to fuel its efforts to take on the country's big five high street banks.
13 November 2024
The VC arm of insurance giant Allianz has led a $300 million Series E funding round for Ualá which values the Argentinian mobile banking player at $2.75 billion.
11 November 2024
OCBC has used Visa Direct to become the first mobile banking app in Asia Pacific to let customers send near-instant peer-to-peer transfers to both Weixin Pay (WeChat Pay) and Alipay using just the recipient’s China national identification name and China mobile number.
07 November 2024
News/regulation
Florida-based VyStar Credit Union has been hit with a $1.5 million penalty over the botched rollout of a new online banking system that saw members unable to access their accounts and money.
01 November 2024
Speaking to chief experts of Tehanu AI, Tosca Tindall and Patrick McSharry, Finextra learned about their nature-finance focused business that is working to incentivise nature stewardship by creating green jobs.
29 October 2024
News/ai
In a European first, Nordic challenger bank Lunar has launched a virtual assistant using GenAI Native Voice technology.
24 October 2024
News/startups
Afin Bank, a digital lender created to help people from Africa living and working in the UK, is set to start offering mortgages and savings products after securing the regulatory green light.
23 October 2024
Santander has launched its Openbank digital offering across the United States, taking its presence in the country nationwide.
22 October 2024
CaixaBank has become the first financial institution in continental Europe to offer buy now, pay later services to users checking out with Apple Pay.
21 October 2024
Klarna buy now, pay leter credit is now available to users checking out on Apple Pay online and in apps with an iPhone and iPad.
17 October 2024
62.1% of UK consumers see mobile app fraud as a top concern, with 50% also citing hacking as a fear, according to findings from the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) and Appdome.
Monzo is offering employees the opportunity to sell part of their stakes in the digital bank through a secondary sale that sees its valuation hit £4.5 billion.
10 October 2024
Pockit, a UK fintech that provides financial services to low-income and underserved customers, has agreed terms to acquire struggling mobile banking outfit Monese.
In a push for financial inclusion in Mexico, Paysend has launched Paysend Libre backed by Mastercard.
04 October 2024
HSBC has written off its stake in Monese just two years after investing $35 million in the mobile banking fintech.
01 October 2024
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