Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Regulatory change is regulatory BAU

Pat Brazel, Chief Revenue Officer, KX, talks about the value of data-as-a-service, the challenges created by the sheer volume and breadth of data that regulations require firms to handle, and the need for flexibility, enabled by speed, in regulatory data solutions.

07 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

BPI processing snafu double-debits consumer accounts

Bank of the Philippine Islands is extending branch opening hours and suspending all electronic channels after an internal processing error resulted in the double posting of transactions across customer accounts over a five-day period.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Better engage customers or face utility future

Laurence Leyden, General Manager for Financial Services in EMEA, SAP, talks about the perils for banks of failing to engage customers, the need for better, more targeted customer profiling, and the technologies banks can deploy to achieve this.

07 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Cardtek and NXP provide technology for UAE mobile wallet

Cardtek, a leading global payment technologies provider, today announced that it is collaborating with NXP Semiconductors to deliver the first nationally sanctioned mobile wallet solution for the United Arab Emirates.

07 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

MFS Africa partners with Paga to connect Nigerian remittance market to the world

MFS Africa and Paga announced today the launch of their partnership connecting Paga users and Nigerian bank account holders to remittance senders from around the world.

07 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Social payments startup Plynk raises EUR25 million

A Dublin-based social payments outfit founded by former Facebook and Wonga staffers Charles Dowd and Clive Foley has raised €25 million in a Series A funding round led by private investment trust, Swiss Privée.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

UK poised to lead world in payments again

Becky Clements, Head of Industry Engagement and Payment Change, Metro Bank, explains why there has never been a more exciting time to work in payments, and discusses the potential of UK payments reform to drive benefits for banks, consumers and the economy.

07 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

FinTech50: London continues to dominate European scene

The Brexit cloud may loom large but, for now, the UK remains at the centre of Europe's financial technology scene, home to nearly two thirds of the firms that make it into this year's FinTech50.

07 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Mobile payments gaining traction - Fiserv

The latest Expectations & Experiences consumer trends survey from Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, finds consumers are paying more bills from mobile devices and making more person-to-person payments while starting to venture into digital wallets.

06 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Garanti team wins BBVA Open Talent Ideas contest

In a complex environment with interest rates at an all-time low, what business models make sense for both banks and customers?

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Leveraging Ireland’s three Ls…

Alan Duffy, CEO, Ireland, HSBC, talks about the strengths of Ireland in terms of law, location and language, the opportunities – and challenges – created for the country by Brexit, and the power of technology and digital to be gamechangers over the coming years.

06 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

UnionPay mobile QuickPass QR code payment arrives in Hong Kong and Singapore

After UnionPay mobile QuickPass QR code payment was launched on May 27 in mainland China, UnionPay International announced today to extend this service to Hong Kong and Singapore.

06 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Atom Bank postpones launch of current accounts as new rules cloud the outlook

Digital only Atom Bank has put plans to open a current account on ice as it faces up to a slew of new regulations set to land over the course of the next year.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Banks should treat APIs as products

Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payments, talks about the opportunities for banks under PSD2, and how the ability to execute will separate winners from losers.

06 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Belgium's Bancontact opens up to bill-splitting startup Tricount

Bancontact is opening up its popular payment app to users of Tricount, an app that makes it easy for friends to share the bill between themselves.

06 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Mobey Forum launches new workgroups on open banking, virtual currencies and m-commerce

Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to lead in the future of digital financial services, today unveils three new workgroups, each focused on a critical aspect of the global digital financial services market.

06 June 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Apple moves into P2P payments space

Apple is to challenge Venmo and bank-backed network Zelle by introducing peer-to-peer payments as part of a forthcoming update to its mobile operating system.

06 June 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Bango enables carrier billing for Amazon purchases

Bango (AIM: BGO), the leading mobile payments company, announces that it has enabled a new payment method for Amazon customers in Japan.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Turning mobile from a service to a sales channel

Lode Snykers, co-CEO, Spencr, discusses how banks can combine transactional and personal information to make relevant, real-time propositions to their customers.

05 June 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Brexit gives Dublin a chance to shine

Peter Vance, Head of Group Operations, Customer Services, AIB, looks forward to EBAday in Dublin, and discusses the strengths of Ireland as a financial – and technology – centre.

05 June 2017