Latest Mobile & online banking News: Finextra Research

Worldpay pilots app-only mPOS for small retailers

Worldpay is conducting extended trials of a software-based mobile points of sale system which helps cash-only mobile and micro retailers to accept card and phone payments on their NFC devices.

19 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Mastercard bags TSB business

Mastercard and TSB, Britain’s biggest challenger bank, today announced that they will work together to issue Mastercard debit cards to all the Bank’s current account customers in 2018 as part of a 7 year agreement.

19 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Open banking rules to trigger new wave of challengers

Tech companies, retailers and price comparison websites could become major banking brands says Deloitte on the release of research which reveals that a significant number of consumers who already use mobile banking would be willing to share data with traditional retailers.

19 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Klarna granted full banking licence

Klarna is proud to announce that it has been granted a full banking licence by Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.

19 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Online and contactless drive surge in UK card spending

The number of purchases using debit and credit cards has more than doubled in the past 10 years, as contactless payments and online retail have driven a change in the way consumers pay, a new report from The UK Cards Association shows.

19 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

WeSwap API connects currency swap service to third party site

Disruptive peer-to-peer travel money exchange WeSwap today announces a host of new developments for the business and its travel partners.

19 June 2017

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Digital identity key to making open banking frictionless

Rob Kotlarz, Business Development Director, Signicat, talks about how digital ID can reduce abandonment rates in onboarding and the role of a reusable, interoperable digital asset in tackling the identity fraud epidemic - and in making PSD2 interactions work in practice.

16 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Performance requirements of instant can be daunting

Tristan Blampied, Senior Product Manager at Pelican, talks about the rise of real-time payments, the challenges in meeting performance demands, the compliance requirements of instant and how off the shelf platforms can help.

16 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Santander's Openbank relaunched as 100% digital bank

Banco Santander is overhauling the operations of its direct banking subsidiary in Spain, transferring all IT assets and client transactions to the cloud and revamping its online and mobile presence as part of a group-wide mission to recruit 30 million digital customers by 2018.

16 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Monese moves closer to full-service banking

The transformation of mobile account provider Monese into a full-service bank has moved a step closer with the introduction of direct debits and Faster Payments.

16 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Citizens Bank builds online and mobile services for business customers with Bottomline

Citizens Bank has announced that it will partner with Bottomline Technologies to deploy a market-leading online and mobile banking platform for its Commercial and Business Banking clients.

16 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

BlueRock Wealth Management offers digital safekeeping with FutureVault

BlueRock Wealth Management Inc., a trusted wealth management firm that provides personalized financial advice and services, has announced that it is offering FutureVault’s Digital Collaborative Vault – called the BlueRock Vault – as an exclusive service to its executive and high-net-worth clients.

15 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Chase launches QuickPay with Zelle

Chase customers now have broader access to an easy, safe and fast way to pay other individuals through the ZelleSM network.

15 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Netclearance takes IoT payments to the point-of-sale

Netclearance, providers of the world’s biggest network of smart Bluetooth payment terminals, today unveils the world’s first commercially available Bluetooth 5 payment beacon.

15 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

AI opens up high-end next-gen automation

David Bannister, Principal Analyst, Financial Services Technology, Ovum, talks about the search for the killer app for voice processing technology, the cultural hurdles to be overcome on the path to AI adoption and how AI will work together with IoT and blockchain.

15 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Innovation platforms help banks exploit emerging tech

Rob Hetherington, Global General Manager Financial Services, SAP, talks about why emerging technologies are so hot right now, the use cases for machine learning already making an impact and how financial services firms need to be able to experiment to unlock the power of these technologies going forward.

15 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Belfius introduces HCE mobile payments

Customers of Belfius Bank who have the Belfius Mobile application can now make payments with their Android compatible mobile telephone by holding it close to a payment terminal equipped with contactless technology.

15 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

SafeCharge brings WeChat Pay to bricks and mortar retailers across Europe

SafeCharge (LON:SCH), the leading payments technology company, today announced that it is partnering with Tencent Holdings, the leading provider of internet value added services in China, to add WeChat Pay, the booming payment service of the Chinese messaging giant and China’s most popular social media on its global payments platform.

15 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Will words and gestures replace plastic cards and cash?

The man who invented an early form of text messaging for fixed line networks while working at BT believes that in the future people will use words and gestures to pay for transactions, ditching payment cards altogether.

15 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Fiserv signs Affinity Plus FCU

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has selected Fiserv to help meet the demand among its members for intuitive and reliable digital self-service banking capabilities.

14 June 2017