Latest Mobile & online banking News: Finextra Research

FinReach enters Austria and Spain

What started with a single banking-cooperation has evolved to become an international bestseller in just two years.

28 November 2017

Erste Bank und Sparkassen brings HCE to Austria with Giesecke & Devrient

Erste Bank und Sparkassen recently launched within their “George Go” app the first Mobile Payment Wallet in the Austrian market based on HCE (Host Card Emulation) technology.

28 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Cardlytics appoints UK strategy and innovation lead

Cardlytics, a purchase intelligence platform that makes marketing more relevant and measurable, has expanded its senior team with the appointment of Jed Murphy as the new UK Head of Strategy and Innovation.

28 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Islandsbanki introduces money pooling with Memento

Memento, together with Islandsbanki, just deployed a new service allowing anyone to raise money together with group of friends, co-workers, fellow students or the whole community.

27 November 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Savings app Chip sets sights on banking licence

Chip, an AI-powered automatic savings app, is looking to raise £2.4 million in a crowdfunding campaign to finance a banking licence application and become the "Brewdog of banking".

27 November 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Commission sets deadline for banks to meet new payment standards

European banks and service providers have been given an 18-month deadline to adopt new security measures and provisions for customer data exchange as mandated by the EU's revised Payments Service Directive (PSD2).

27 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

ABN Amro's Tikkie app kicks off partnership with Ajax

Ajax is to become the first Dutch football club to partner with the payment app Tikkie.

27 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Bango expands carrier billing on Windows 10 and Xbox One

Bango (AIM: BGO), the leading mobile payments company, has expanded the availability of Direct Carrier Billing for Windows Store and Xbox One to over 200 million subscribers across Europe and the USA.

27 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Antelop adds Visa token support to white label NFC mobile wallet platform

Antelop Solutions has just joined the Visa Token Service program as a certifying token requestor, enabling banks and card issuers to use its cloud-based HCE NFC payments platform to launch mobile wallets that fully comply with the latest Visa tokenization requirements.

27 November 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

In Europe, cash still dominates at the POS

Cash still dominates at the point of sale in Europe, accounting for more than three quarters of all in store transactions in the euro area last year, according to an ECB study.

27 November 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

High expectations in the corporate market

Falk Rieker, Global Head of Banking IBU, SAP and Oliver Bussmann, Founder and Managing Partner, Bussmann Advisory, talk at Sibos 2017 about the need for change in the world of corporate banking, what corporates can expect from their banks in the future, what will disrupt this sector and whether banks are doing enough to improve the services they offer.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

De Volksbank completes migration of investment accounts to Ohpen core

De Volksbank and Ohpen have successfully completed the migration of over 122,000 investment accounts to Ohpen’s core banking platform.

24 November 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

MayBank eases mobile log-ins with a choice of face, voice or fingeprint ID

Malaysia's MayBank is betting big on biometrics to replace password logins, adding facial and voice recognition to its fingerprint-protected mobile app.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Revolut hits one million user milestone

Revolut, the digital banking challenger, has today announced that it has signed up 1m customers across Europe and saved consumers over £120m in hidden fees as the innovative fintech continues to disrupt traditional banking.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Yandex.Checkout ships API

Russia’s leading payment aggregator Yandex.Checkout has launched a new technological platform that will help companies accept online payments faster than before, use the special offer system to increase sales, and receive key business analytics.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Mypinpad partners with POS hardware suppler Datecs

MYPINPAD, a global leader in payments software authentication solutions, today announced a partnership with Datecs, a leading manufacturer and developer of innovative POS hardware, to deliver a PCI compliant PIN on Mobile (PoM) solution.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

WorldFirst seeks to capitalise on Amazon launch with Australian dollar accounts

WorldFirst is today adding Australian dollar currency accounts for businesses and online sellers to its recently launched World Account platform – the addition of the new accounts coinciding with Amazon’s own high-profile launch Down Under.

24 November 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

WeChat Pay comes to Hong Kong's transit network

Hong Kong's Octopus contactless transit payments system is facing competition from the mainland, as WeChat begins trialling its mobile wallets on the island's railway network.

24 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

MoneyGram starts using Interac e-Transfer Bulk Disbursement

Interac Association/Acxsys Corporation (Interac) announced today that MoneyGram International, Inc. has begun using Interac e-Transfer Bulk Disbursement, an extension of the Interac e-Transfer service, as a new way for Canadians to receive payments sent through MoneyGram's payment service.

23 November 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

BUX raises over EUR1 million in crowd campaign

Next generation trading app BUX has raised a total of €1,289,892 in just two weeks of being live on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

23 November 2017