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Company update/payments

Rabobank hits instant payments milestone with ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that Rabobank has achieved the final milestone in scaling up instant payments.

18 September 2019

News/Sepa

What’s next after the SCA deadline?

Following the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) deadline passing on Saturday, Dr Ruth Wandhöfer, honorary professor at the London Institute of Banking & Finance and board member at LSEG, took to the stage at the World Conference of Banking Institutes to discuss the changing pace of the payments industry and the role of the banking sector in this age of disruption.

17 September 2019

Company update/payments

LBBW extends equensWorldline Sepa agreement

equensWorldline, a subsidiary of Worldline [Euronext: WLN], European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announces the early renewal of its service agreement by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW).

29 August 2019

Company update/payments

Volante launches Sepa instant payments as a service on Microsoft Azure

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernization, today announced that it is providing end-to-end SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) instant payments processing as an on-demand managed service on Microsoft Azure.

17 June 2019

News/Sepa

Payment firms raise fears over EU security rules

A lack of preparedness for the EU's new regulations on authentication could cost Europe's online economy more than €50bn according to a number of payment processors and e-commerce merchants.

04 June 2019

Company update/payments

EBA Clearing RT1 platform gets Finnish banks onboard

EBA Clearing announced today that RT1 now counts six participants from Finland: Bonum Bank, Central Bank of Savings Banks Finland, Danske Bank A/S Finland Branch, OP Corporate Bank, Svenska Handelsbanken and Nordea Bank.

08 May 2019

News/payments

JP Morgan launches Sepa instant payments in Europe

US banking giant JP Morgan is boosting its real-time payments offering by launching Sepa Instant in Europe.

10 April 2019

News/payments

Deutsche Bank releases API interface for instant payments in SAP ERP software

Deutsche Bank has joined forces with software firm Serrala to launch an API interface for Sepa instant payments for corporates using SAP enterprise resource planning software, taking a step towards real-time treasury.

05 April 2019

News/Sepa

Tackling digital transformation in Nordic financial services

SWIFT's Business Forum Nordics event examined how the financial services community in the region can deliver technological innovation while managing emerging risk factors.

04 April 2019

News/Sepa

Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019, live from Copenhagen. This event has a focus on accelerating digital transformation, and will look at how the financial community in the region is harnessing technological change to deliver a digital customer experience.

28 March 2019

News/Sepa

41% of banks missed PSD2 deadline says survey

Close to half of banks (41%) failed to meet a recent deadline for the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) to provide a testing environment or 'sandbox' for any third party service providers (TPPs).

21 March 2019

Company update/payments

Wirexend enlists Onpex for multi-currency cross-border payments

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with Canadian financial institution, Wirexend. The partnership will see ONPEX provide Wirexend with a seamless cross-border solution to offer its customers access to accounts with SWIFT and SEPA transfer capabilities.

04 March 2019

Company update/Sepa

Iberpay passes instant payment processing milestone

Since its launch on November 2017, Iberpay’s instant payment service has processed over 25 million instant transfers worth more than 18,000 million euros, issued by the 90 Spanish banks that participate in the system, representing more than 90% share of the market.

11 January 2019

Company update/Sepa

Bitwala to launch blockchain banking in Germany after €4m fund raising

Bitwala, the German blockchain banking service, raised more than 4 million Euros in funding to provide the world’s first fully regulated blockchain bank account from November.

25 September 2018

Company update/devops

EBAday: Finastra European payment solution available on Microsoft Azure

At EBAday in Munich today, Finastra announced the commercial availability of its European instant payments solution on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-ready, trusted cloud platform.

12 June 2018

Company update/Sepa

CBA completes Sepa instant payment testing with EBA Clearing

Norwegian software vendor Commercial Banking Applications (CBA), today confirmed that it has successfully completed testing of instant payments with EBA Clearing – with the result that its IBAS SIP - SEPA Instant Payment Solution can now support the processing of real-time payments for banks connecting to the EBA Clearing Instant Payment System.

12 June 2018

Company update/Sepa

The Bank of Lithuania picks SIA to access pan-European instant payments

The Bank of Lithuania, the Central Bank of the country, has selected SIA to access RT1, the pan-European instant payments infrastructure that is operative as of 21 November 2017.

11 January 2018

News/Sepa

Sepa instant payments goes live

Nearly 600 payment service providers (PSPs) from eight countries are onboard for today's launch of the Sepa Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, bringing real-time money transfers to much of Europe.

21 November 2017

News/Sepa

EPC gears up for pan-European instant payments

A new voluntary pan-European instant credit transfer scheme that will bring real-time money transfers across the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) is on course to go live in November, with five countries onboard from the off.

14 July 2017

Company update/Sepa

Rabobank selects Finastra payment services hub for cross-border payments

Finastra today announced that Rabobank has selected the global payment services hub from Finastra (previously D+H) to centralize cross-border payments.

21 June 2017