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Prepare to Choose: 4 factors Banks must assess before committing to a SaaS Provider

22 September 2021 512 downloads

Wave closes largest Series A round for an African fintech with $200 million

Valuing the independent mobile money provider at $1.7 billion, the landmark Series A round was led by Sequoia Heritage, Founders Fund, Stripe and Ribbit.

07 September 2021

Company update/payments

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*.

23 August 2021

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Corporate Mobile Banking and the Road to Omnichannel

23 August 2021 340 downloads

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SMEs Front and Centre

10 August 2021 524 downloads

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Responding to Lending Disruption

27 July 2021 604 downloads

News/payments

P27 Nordic Payments secures merger approval from EU Commission

The European Commission today announced merger approval for the P27 Nordic Payments initiative to establish its pan-Nordic payments platform. This approval marks a significant milestone for the initiative which is working toward the creation of a common payments infrastructure across the Nordic region.

09 July 2021

News/payments

Stripe prepares for listing - reports

Irish online payments firm Stripe is reportedly preparing for a stockmarket debut after appointing a law firm to explore a listing.

09 July 2021

News/markets

Wise completes largest direct listing in UK history at £8bn

Wise, one of the UK’s leading fintechs goes public on the London Stock Exchange today, with first trades expected to commence shortly after 11:22am BST under the ticker ‘WISE’.

07 July 2021

Company update/payments

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%).

07 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

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The Future of Payments 2021

23 June 2021 1436 downloads

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The advantage of Machine Learning in preventing fraud

17 June 2021 390 downloads

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Liquidity: The Oil in the Machine of Finance

16 June 2021 97 downloads

News/regulation

Governor Bailey encouraged by progress around ‘critical innovation’ of CBDC

At the launch of the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) fourth Innovation Hub in London, Governor Andrew Bailey expressed positivity around the work currently being carried out by the Bank of England on central bank digital currencies.

11 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: new speakers announced

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are thrilled to announce a fresh slew of speakers, guaranteed to draw out the detail and depth of European payments during EBAday 2021.

11 June 2021

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Refreshing Payment Orchestration for a digital future

11 June 2021 419 downloads

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EBAday 2021: Do we really need CBDCs?

The highly anticipated session scheduled for day two of the upcoming EBAday 2021, titled ‘Do we really need Central Bank Digital Currencies?’ is focused on answering this precise question.

09 June 2021