Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place! Fiserv’s CUnify core processing system bags 25 US credit unions More good news for the US software vendor. IBM delivers blockchain-as-a-service for developers Code to joy… nearly 44,000 lines made available. Potential “merger of equals” between Deutsche Börse […]
In Green Dot Corp.’s first earnings call since investor Harvest Capital Strategies called for the ouster of Green Dot CEO Steve Streit and two board members, Streit said that while neither he nor the board members will be going anywhere, the company is open to Harvest’s input on how to improve the company’s performance and its advice on adding potential new board members.
The Payment System Regulator (PSR), a government body created to oversee the payment systems industry in the U.K., is calling for the major banks to sell a part of their stakes in U.K.-based payments provider VocaLink, which it claims will create more fertile ground for innovation and competition.
Apple Pay has a new foothold in corporate payroll: Payment Data Systems said that its Akimbo prepaid card program now works with the mobile wallet from the computer maker.
In the battle for mobile wallet supremacy, JPMorgan Chase this week got venti-sized boost in the form of a partnership with Starbucks.
HSBC in Germany will use Swift’s Value Added Network (VAN) solution to connect to Target2-Securities (T2S). VAN Solution enables T2S participants to connect to the new pan-European securities settlement platform for the exchange of business information in ISO 20022. Other banks and central securities depositories (CSD) that have signed with Swift for T2S connectivity include […]
EQ Bank, a new pure-play digital bank in Canada, has opened its virtual doors. It is underpinned by the front-to-back office software from Temenos. The bank is using Temenos’ T24 core banking system at the back-end and Temenos Connect for digital channels at the front-end. It is also using Insight BI for business intelligence and […]
Deutsche Börse has launched a fintech initiative for new companies and start-ups in Frankfurt. From April onwards, it will make “fully equipped rooms available as a suitable environment to further develop new ideas and entrepreneurial concepts”. The start-ups will also receive on-site support from employees of the Deutsche Börse Venture Network. These will use their […]
Avaloq Sourcing Switzerland, Avaloq’s business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary (previously B-Source), has migrated KBL Switzerland to the BPO platform of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL Suisse). The BPO solution is based on the vendor’s flagship core banking platform, Avaloq Banking Suite, and the migration took five months. BIL Suisse acquired the Swiss subsidiary of KBL […]
CPI Card Group has named Steven Schmuelling director of business development.
The Federal Reserve Board has reappointed Federal Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents. Each officer will serve a five-year term beginning March 1, 2016.
Ingenico Group, a global payment solutions provider and 2016 Pay Award Winner, has announced that the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) has named the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company one of the Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in the state.
National Gift Card Corp, a gift card solution partner, has promoted Vice President of Strategic Partnerships Rick Rubin to the newly created position of executive vice president of sales.
PayPal Holdings Inc. has appointed Sri Shivananda senior vice president and chief technology officer, effective April 1, 2016.
PayPal Holdings Inc. has appointed Sri Shivananda senior vice president and chief technology officer, effective April 1, 2016.
Payveris, a provider of open API digital payment solutions, has hired Mohan Chunduri as senior vice president of operations.
The Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA) announced Robert Skiba will return to the role of chairman of the board at the NBPCA. The association named additional officers for FY 2016.
UK-based Genesis Investment Management, a long-standing customer of Simcorp, has implemented the vendor’s client communication and reporting solution, Coric. The system has been deployed on an outsourced basis, hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud. According to Simcorp, the project was completed in four months. As the result, the client reporting efficiency has improved by more than […]
London-based Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has launched Data Services, a market intelligence solution for fund managers. Calastone says that MiFID II, the European regulatory framework designed to “improve the transparency and oversight of financial markets”, is moving responsibility to understand the distribution chain from distributors and platform providers to fund managers. Rob Swan, […]
AsiaHawala, Iraq’s “first” mobile money service, has chosen Mahindra Comviva’s Mobiquity Money solution as it looks to expand its reach across the country. The Iraqi company offers consumers a mobile account for a range of financial transactions – such as P2P transfer, bill payments, merchant payments, salary payments and a recharge service. With Mobiquity Money […]
Four firms have joined forces to introduce the “first” end-to-end security architecture for biometric fingerprint authentication at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. Gemalto, Fingerprint Cards, Precise Biometrics and STMicroelectronics say they are offering original equipment manufacturers (OEM) the opportunity to deploy this feature in the latest generation of wearable and consumer electronics devices. The […]
Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have confirmed they are in “detailed” discussions about a potential “merger of equals” of the two businesses. The announcement saw shares in the LSE and Deutsche Börse rise 17% and 7% respectively. It is the third time they have tried to make a deal, the first attempt […]
Florida-based Net Element has launched its mobile payments platform, Digital Provider, in Azerbaijan. The venture is done via the company’s Russian subsidiary, OOO Digital Provider. The company says the new integration allows content providers and aggregators access to all “major” mobile operators in the country. It has also signed a contract with a national television […]
Temenos is refinancing its existing banking facilities to the tune of a $500 million new facility. The Swiss software vendor says it has “taken advantage of current market conditions to lock in low-cost long term financing” through a new $500 million banking facility, consisting of a five-year revolving credit facility which expires in 2021. The […]
Last fall Talbott Roche, along with seven other female executives at Blackhawk Network, was selected as one of the Women Driving Payments Change. Now she takes the helm of Blackhawk Network, a company she helped build from the ground up.
Instead of focusing on P2P, Ingo Money Inc. has its sights set on enabling what Founder and CEO Drew Edwards calls “me-to-me” payments. The company, which specializes in digitizing cash and checks through its Good Funds Network, today announced the rollout of a service within its Ingo Money App that enables consumers to cash a check with their smartphones and send the funds instantly to multiple accounts, including prepaid, PayPal, bank and private-label credit card accounts.
There were more than 1 billion mobile money transactions worldwide in December 2015, according to a report released by the GSMA this week at the mobile association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In its fifth annual State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money, the GSMA outlined the growth of mobile money, which it said is “changing the landscape of financial inclusion.”
The demand for large cross-border transactions is on the rise, and consumers making those purchases are seeking the most convenient and cost-effective transaction methods and channels. That’s according to Flywire, a 4-year-old company that got its start in the international student tuition sector and has since expanded to enable multiple types of cross-border payments.
Starbucks will change its loyalty program, rewarding what consumers spend instead of how often they visit. The change, due in April, has drawn some criticism from the chain’s customers although the coffee giant claims customers suggested it.
Blockchain gets another boost as IBM has made nearly 44,000 lines of code available to the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project to help developers build secure distributed ledgers. IBM has also made a range of announcements spanning technology and business consulting to “rapidly advance the use of distributed ledger technology across multiple industries”. These […]
Veridian Credit Union, a $2.95 billion credit union in Iowa, is implementing Alkami Technology’s ORB platform for digital channels. The new solution will replace a legacy set-up, which includes a mobile banking offering from another US provider, Clairmail (now part of Monitise). Clairmail was selected by Veridian back in 2009. In 2012, the vendor was […]
Broadridge Financial Solutions has taken a minority stake and entered into an exclusive distribution and marketing alliance with Netherlands-based management consulting firm AMA Partners. AMA provides DirectorInsight, a platform offering data and analytical tools for the evaluation of corporate governance and executive compensation. Broadridge says the deal expands its data capabilities for corporations and institutional […]
Fiserv has revealed that 25 US credit unions, with approximately $2.5 billion in assets and 250,000 members collectively, have committed to its CUnify account processing platform. Five of these credit unions are new core processing clients of Fiserv, and will be converting to CUnify in the course of 2016. CUnify is a core platform used […]
The European Automated Clearing House Association (EACHA) is to deliver a framework for ACH interoperability for instant payments by March 2016. EACHA leads, upon invitation by the European Central Bank (ECB), a taskforce consisting of ACHs (including members of EACHA, EBA Clearing and representatives of Target2), national central banks, the ECB, and “ad hoc other […]
Chainalysis, a New York-based cyber security start-up, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) on collaborating to fight online crime. Chainalysis aims to change “negative headlines where digital currencies have been connected to fraud and cybercrime” and is tracking digital identities on the blockchain. The start-up says its software […]
Wearable payments technology and the Internet of Things continue to gain steam, with MasterCard and Visa announcing separate initiatives involving the technologies at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
Growing demand for prepaid products of all types in Canada helped drive Vancouver-based issuer Peoples Trust to add 150 new programs in 2015, and led to a 19 percent increase in the bank’s overall prepaid load volume, to CAN$1.2 billion (US$870 million), for the year, Peoples tells Pay News.
Apple Pay launches in China via a UnionPay deal, giving further mobile payment competition to homegrown rivals such as Alipay. Meanwhile, Samsung Pay also is set to enter the market.
Natixis Payment Solutions has teamed up with French start-up CopSonic to create SwipeSonic, an ultrasound payment solution for online shopping transactions. CopSonic’s technology uses ultrasound to encrypt information within music and voice, or transmit data “entirely inaudibly to the human ear”. Emmanuel Ruiz, CEO of CopSonic, says: “Sound is the easiest and most effective technology […]
MasterCard has unveiled its MasterCard IQ series that uses real-time intelligence to tackle fraud and the increasing number of false declines. The plan is for cardholders and merchants to see a reduced number of transactions unnecessarily declined, while maintaining the “highest levels” of security. Javelin Strategy & Research estimates that one out of every six […]
