Latest Mobile & online banking News: Finextra Research

Elavon to bring Poynt smart terminal to European retailers

US Bancorp subsidiary Elavon and California-based Poynt are excited to announce their plan to bring the Poynt Smart Terminal to the wider international market, beginning with Europe.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

N26 embeds insurance robo-advisor Clark

Clark, the leading german insurance robo-advisor, expands its integration base with german Banks.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

ACI Worldwide brings Alipay to Africa via Peach Payments

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and Alipay today announced that they are launching Alipay in South Africa, via leading regional payment service provider (PSP) Peach Payments.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Accuity to provide screening compliance tech to TransferMoney Latvia

TransferMoney Latvia, one of Europe’s fastest growing cloud payment institutions, has selected Accuity to streamline its account and payments screening processes.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Yoyo Wallet secures £12 million Series B funding

Yoyo Wallet, Europe’s fastest growing mobile payment and customer engagement platform, today announced a £12 million Series B round, led by the digitalisation and investment arm of the METRO GROUP Wholesale & Food Specialist Company, an internationally leading specialist in wholesale and food retail with ca. €37 billion in annual turnover, with additional investment from Woodford Investment Management and Touchstone Innovations.

26 June 2017

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European savings and co-operative banks join screen-scraping row

Trade groups representing over 5000 European savings and co-operative banks have called on the European Banking Authority to reject Commission amendments to the revised Payment Services Directive which would require banks to provide a fall-back interface to screen-scraping technology for third party access to consumer bank data.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Secure Trading partners with Railsbank

Award winning payments group, Secure Trading, has today announced its new partnership with Railsbank, a global open banking and compliance technology platform, offering companies API access to global banking with 5 lines of code.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Two french cities go live with Masabi mobile ticketing

Masabi, the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and innovative fare collection, today announced the first two deployments of mobile ticketing using the JustRide SDK, the world’s first mobile ticketing Software Development Kit (SDK) for the transport industry, used first by Keolis and its digital subsidiary, Kisio.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Wirecard releases AI-powered omnichannel ePOS Suite

Artificial intelligence is shaping the future of retail. Smart algorithms and data analyses are creating sustainable performance benefits across all levels of the retail supply chain.

26 June 2017

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Poland's mBank to license tech platform to third party financial institutions

Poland's mBank is taking a leaf out of German banking peer Fidor's playbook, licensing its technology backbone to other financial institutions across Europe.

26 June 2017

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Ireland to provide launchpad for Starling flight into Europe

UK challenger Starling Bank is preparing to expand into Europe, launching its first euro-denominated current account in Ireland.

26 June 2017

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Mastercard eyes opportunities to profit from sharing economy

Seeking to profit from a booming sharing economy, Mastercard has identified trust, experience and regulation as vital to unlocking the potential of the new commerce models that are emerging.

26 June 2017

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4th EU AML Directive will make curbing crime easier, but cost banks millions

As the 4th EU AML Directive comes into force today, a pair of studies suggests that while most UK FS industry financial crime professionals think the new rules will make it easier to prevent money laundering, they are likely to cost banks millions in inefficient KYC checks.

26 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Greater Wyoming FCU moves to Fiserv

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that Greater Wyoming Federal Credit Union, based in Casper, Wyoming, has partnered with Fiserv to enhance efficiency with integrated technology.

23 June 2017

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BBVA trains 1000 'ambassadors of design'

BBVA is promising to put design and user experience (UX) at the centre of its digital strategy by training up 1000 staff 'ambassadors' to spread good practice throughout the Spanish bank's operations.

23 June 2017

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ABN Amro tests wearable tech for contactless payments

ABN Amro is undertaking tests of wearable technology to make contactless payments, with the aim of rolling out its first card-free tap-and-pay product to customers by the end of the year.

23 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Stripe lands in six new European countries

Today we’re excited to launch in six more European countries, making all of our products fully available to businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

23 June 2017

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Starling opens community site and previews product roadmap

App-only Starling Bank is giving customers a sneak peak at its product plans over the coming year, with support for Apple Pay and Android Pay, joint accounts, goal-based savings features and additional mobile-controlled card security options on the way.

23 June 2017

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In-app payment messaging startup PayKey raises $6 million

Fresh from a stint at the Fintech Pavillion at this year's EBAday in Dublin, social payments startup PayKey reports that it has secured more than half of its second- round funding target of $10 million.

23 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

CA rolls out suite of products for PSD2

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) Solution by CA to help banks, payment service providers (PSPs) and third-party providers (TPPs) to modernize their application architectures, accelerate open banking and streamline digital payments innovation to address PSD2 requirements.

23 June 2017