REAL TIME PAYMENTS

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Icici Bank allows students aspiring to study in Germany to open digital accounts

ICICI Bank Germany, a part of ICICI Bank, today announced the launch of a digital and instant Blocked Account* for students aspiring to study in Germany. A Blocked Account* is a special type of account wherein students are required to keep a certain amount of money in order to get a Balance Confirmation Certificate (BCC), a mandatory requirement for a student Visa in Germany. Only banks, which are authorized by German Federal Foreign Office, can offer the Blocked Account*.

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Real time payments tip the balance against cash in Southeast Asia

Real-time payments are now as popular as cash as a payment method for consumers in Southeast Asia, according to new research from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and YouGov. Three out of five consumers (61%) in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore prefer real-time payments as a favored way to pay in 2021, level with cash (61%) and higher than other payment categories, including digital wallets requiring cash or card top-ups (56%) and credit cards (30%).

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Ecommpay announces partnership with Nuapay

International payment service provider and direct bank card acquirer, ECOMMPAY, today announced it is partnering with open banking solutions provider, Nuapay, to enable better payouts to EU and UK bank accounts, and access to SEPA — the Single Euro Payments Area — an EU initiative to improve payments across the Eurozone.

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FSS and NPCI International Payments to expand UPI rails internationally

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a globally leading provider of integrated payment products and India’s largest payments processor, and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL, International arm of National Payment Corporation of India), have signed a strategic partnership to expand UPI (Unified Payment Interface) rails in international markets.

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Mizrahi-Tehafot Bank goes live with Finastra

Finastra today announced that Mizrahi-Tehafot Bank, the third largest bank in Israel, has chosen its pre-packaged payments solution, Fusion Payments To Go. The solution, aimed at small and medium-sized banks looking to implement domestic and cross-border payment services, will enable the bank to offer its customers frictionless and immediate payments, with reduced, fixed implementation cost. With a modern and agile solution in place, the bank will be able to better serve its customers, and in turn to grow its business, whilst being prepared for changing regulations such as ISO 20022.

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Polish and Finnish banks join European Payments Initiative

Today, EPI Interim Company, responsible for initiating the implementation of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), is pleased to announce that PKO Bank Polski (“PKO BP”), Poland’s largest bank, and OP Financial Group, the leading Finnish retail bank, are joining EPI as founding shareholders of the recently created company.

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Worldline and P3 Financial Group seal partnership

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transaction services and #4 player worldwide, today announced a partnership with P3 Financial Group, a Fintech from Helsinki, Finland and the winner of Worldline’s E-Payments Challenge Special Prize in 2019. The two companies come together to make P3’s PSAAS (Payment System as A Service) operational in 13 European countries and offering real time commerce and payment service across the market.

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Mastercard and AlRaedah Finance launch payment solutions for SMEs in Saudi Arabia

Mastercard has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AlRaedah Finance, to launch a unique ‘SME in a Box’ payment solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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IBanFirst acquires German FX startup Forexfix

After establishing itself in the Netherlands last month, iBanFirst, global financial services provider delivering solutions across banking borders, today announced the acquisition of Forexfix, a German foreign-exchange start-up based in Berlin with clients across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As a result, Forexfix’s customers will benefit from iBanFirst’s award-winning online platform, a single interface to receive and make cross-border payments, hedge foreign exchange risks and finance their international growth. This takeover is instrumental in iBanFirst’s change of scale and contributes to the 5 billion euros in payments processed for its more than 3 000 clients this year.

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Flywire and iSAMS integrate to simplify reconciliation for schools

Flywire, a provider of vertical payment and receivables solutions for businesses and institutions, today announced a new integration partnership with iSAMS, a 100% web-based school management and integrated accounting solution. Flywire will integrate its comprehensive payment and receivables platform for Education with the iSAMS iFinance solution, streamlining international payments for K-12 students and their families while simplifying reconciliation for schools.

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Super Processor signs for TAS USA card payments platform

TAS USA Inc., part of TAS Group, a global provider of digital payments software, today announced that it has signed a deal with Super Processor Inc., a full-service payment processor based in Hawaii, to provide its end-to-end card payments platform, CARD 3.0 I.E., and deliver innovative issuing and acquiring functionalities to cover the entire payments value chain.