Latest Mobile & online banking News: Finextra Research

Digital receipt startup Flux scores game-changing deal with Barclays

Barclays has become the first of the high street incumbents to engage with Flux, a digital receipt startup that is gaining traction with the new wave of UK challenger banks.

13 November 2017

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Visa bids to bring contactless transit payments to the world

Visa is looking to accelerate the adoption of contactless payments on the world's subway, rail and bus networks through the launch of a dedicated transit programme.

13 November 2017

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PayPal launches Money Pools feature

PayPal has launched a new feature that lets people club together to track and share the costs of spending on group activities or personal goals.

10 November 2017

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NAB goes on tech hiring spree

As it kicks off a three-year programme designed to simplify the bank and reshape its workforce for the digital age, Australia's NAB is promising to immediately hire 600 technology specialists in the areas of software engineering, data, architecture and security.

10 November 2017

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Breaking the rip and replace cycle

Nadeem Syed, CEO, Finastra, talks at Sibos 2017 about the challenges banks face today, how they can break the rip and replace cycle while they look for faster ROI and what is driving the gain in momentum towards open APIs.

09 November 2017

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East publishes European fraud update

The European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST) has just published its third European Fraud Update for 2017.

09 November 2017

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Yandex Money refuels for payments at the pump

Yandex.Money, Russia’s leading online payment service, released a new application Yandex.Gas.

09 November 2017

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PayPal begins domestic operations in India

A decade ago, we embarked on a journey to digitize India by enabling cross-border transactions.

09 November 2017

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Oval Money arrives on Android

Oval Money, a leading savings and financial education app, has now launched for Android and is available on Google Play.

09 November 2017

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OCBC puts health insurance on the mobile

Digitalising the way customers buy health insurance products, OCBC Bank has again launched a first in the digital wealth management space.

09 November 2017

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Turkey's Troy moves overseas with Discover deal

TROY, Payment Method of Turkey, goes international. Thanks to the agreement between TROY and Discover Financial Services, TROY's members will be able to offer TROY cards that can be used internationally to users.

09 November 2017

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SocGen opens internal startup programme

Societe Generale is the latest French bank bidding to tap into latent employee talent through a major intrapreneurship programme.

09 November 2017

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Banks look to utilise the richness of the cloud

Nadish Lad, Global Head of Payments Products, Volante Technologies, talks at Sibos 2017 about the growing trend towards payments as a service in the cloud, how easy it is to put a payments suite in the cloud, and what sort of services customers can expect to see being offered in the cloud.

08 November 2017

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NCR Silver now supports Android via Samsung Galaxy tablet

NCR Corporation, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., today launched NCR Silver Quantum™, an all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) commerce station featuring an integrated payment device with mobile wallet acceptance capability, customer display, loyalty scanner and Samsung Galaxy tablet.

08 November 2017

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Scotiabank implements Mastercard's Masterpass

Today Mastercard and Scotiabank announced that Scotiabank customers now have access to fast, simple and secure online payments with Scotiabank Masterpass.

08 November 2017

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BNP Paribas launches WeChat Pay in Europe

BNP Paribas is introducing WeChat Pay to retailers in France and subsequently across Europe, providing an opportunity for merchants to streamline the shopping experience for the 7.4 million Chinese tourists who visit the continent each year.

08 November 2017

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US Bank to use geolocation to authorise card transactions

Just in time for the holiday season, U.S. Bank has added location services to the U.S. Bank Mobile App, offering U.S. Bank Visa credit and debit card customers technology that uses their phones’ location to help verify whether their mobile devices and credit or debit card are in the same location.

08 November 2017

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Time to rethink strategies and business models

Laurence Leyden, General Manager, Financial Services, EMEA South, SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about the role of APIs in securely sharing data across the industry and what new business models are likely to emerge in a world of open banking.

08 November 2017

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Mobile lender WeLab scoops $220 million in financing

Alibaba, Credit Suisse, and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation have joined in a $220 miliion Series B and debt financing round for Hong Kong-based mobile lender WeLab.

08 November 2017

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Coinsilium signs mobile payments MoU with UMT

Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX:COIN), the blockchain venture builder and investor that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UMT United Mobility Technology AG (“UMT”), a German company listed on XETRA, a trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and specialised in the development and implementation of individual mobile payment and blockchain solutions for large-scale customers such as PAYBACK (American Express Group).

08 November 2017