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What does the future of banking look like?

Derek White, BBVA global head of customer solutions, takes a tour of the new digital technologies that are set to reshape banking.

02 May 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

PayPal launches Business in a Box service for SMBs

PayPal has unveiled a new service, called Business in a Box, which brings together a host of tools designed to help small firms start and run their online operations.

01 May 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Pangea Money Transfer arrives in Honduras

Pangea Money Transfer, a remittance app built for the mobile user, has expanded its service into Honduras. With this addition, Pangea’s application is now available in six Latin American countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.

01 May 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Mastercard CIO McLaughlin moves up the ranks; appointed to president, ops and tech

Mastercard today announced the appointment of Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology, effective May 1, 2017.

28 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

BNP Paribas Wealth Management launches four new digital platforms

BNP Paribas Wealth Management is launching four digital platforms bringing unique financial, business and lifestyle content to private clients and prospects.

28 April 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

RBS profit overshadowed by NatWest downtime

On the day that Royal Bank of Scotland reported its first quarterly profit in 12 years, the sweet taste of success has turned bitter for customers of subsidiary NatWest who have seen transfers from accounts vanish and mobile apps and online banking go dark.

28 April 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Monzo opens doors to community collaboration

Digital challenger bank Monzo has earmarked a dedicated space in its East London headquarters building as a collaborative community room, to host events and test out new ideas with its growing membership base.

28 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Paykey wins Temenos’ Innovation Jam Final

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the software specialist for banking and finance, has today announced that the winner of its global Innovation Jam contest is fintech start-up Paykey.

28 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

ItzCash partners with Prabhu Money for Indo-Nepal remittances

ItzCash, India’s largest digital payments company and the leading player in domestic remittances, has further ventured into cross-border remittances through its collaboration with Prabhu Money Transfer India, a leading remittance company in Nepal.

28 April 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Bank branch visitors more satisfied than digital-only customers

American customers who occasionally visit branches are more satisfied with their banks than those that only use mobile and online channels, according to a new JD Power study.

28 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Walmart launches mobile money sending platform

Three years ago this week, Walmart introduced its groundbreaking money transfer service, Walmart2Walmart Powered by Ria, with the goal of bringing customers dramatically lower costs and a simpler money transfer experience.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

WorldRemit partners Tigo Money for mobile transfers to El Salvador and Guatemala

Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit announced today it has partnered with Millicom’s subsidiaries Tigo Money to open up new remittance routes to El Salvador and Guatemala, enabling Salvadorans and Guatemalans abroad to send money transfers instantly to more than one and a half million Tigo Money users in those countries, directly from the WorldRemit app.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Samsung Pay launches in four more countries

Samsung Electronics today celebrates the continued growth and enthusiasm for Samsung Pay around the world by expanding in four markets over two days. Samsung Pay officially launches in Sweden and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and enters early access in Hong Kong and Switzerland.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

TransferWise opens Asian hub in Singapore

We’re excited to announce that we’re launching TransferWise’s Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

PayPal posts healthy Q1

Global technology platform and digital payments leader PayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:PYPL) today announced first quarter results for the period ended March 31, 2017.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Belato welcomes new directors to the board

Today Betalo announced that Thomas Eriksson, CEO at Carnegie Investment Bank until 2015, and Stefan Alexandersson, CEO at Collector Bank until 2017, have joined its new Board of Directors.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

TSB to hook up with fintechs for new mobile app

TSB has begun to rollout its new mobile banking app, which is the challenger bank’s first service built by its new ‘Proteo’ IT platform.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Payza opens online payment platform to Chinese market

Payza, a leading global online payment platform, announced that Payza members in China can now load their Payza e-wallets using popular local options WeChat, UnionPay, and ePayLinks.

27 April 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking