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4711 Results from 2018

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Nexo Standards welcomes ten new members

As nexo standards continues to respond to the expanding needs of the payments market, the association today announces that ten companies have joined its membership base in 2018 to support the growth of fast, borderless and interoperable card payments globally.

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InstaRem enables business users to make multi-currency payments in one go

InstaReM, Southeast Asia’s leading money transfer service, has introduced a new feature to its money transfer platform that enables Small & Medium Business (SMB) users to make payments in multiple currencies in one go.

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Etoro survey shows strong intrest in crypto asset education, despite market downturn

A new survey from eToro U.S., a leading global investment platform, finds that despite a clear interest in investing in cryptoassets, education is the key barrier preventing online investors from purchasing the asset.

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Visa agrees deal to acquire Earthport for £198 million

The boards of Bidco and Earthport are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all cash offer for the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Earthport by Bidco, a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of Visa.

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MTB introduces UnionPay to Bangladesh with support from Compass Plus

ompass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced that Mutual Trust Bank Ltd (MTB), one of the top five retail banks in Bangladesh, has become the first bank in the country to issue UnionPay International cards.

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Tall Group targets cheque fraud in alliance with DIA Europe

The TALL Group of Companies, the UK’s leading provider of secure electronic and paper payments solutions, has partnered with DIA Europe, providers of the Kappa cheque fraud prevention platform used by many leading banks, to create a new tool that is designed to strengthen the cheque industry’s protection against payment fraud.

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EMVCo provides security evaluation for mobile payments

EMVCo has established a Security Evaluation Process for software-based mobile payments (SBMP) to provide an efficient, flexible offering for product providers and promote a robust security foundation for SBMP solutions.

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Fido Alliance specifications now adopted as ITU international standards

The FIDO Alliance, the industry consortium developing open, interoperable authentication standards, announced today that two of its specifications are now recognised as international standards by the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Standardisation Sector (ITU-T).

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DBS partners Halcyon to create a digital marketplace for sustainable rubber

DBS Bank Ltd (DBS) and Halcyon Agri Corporation Limited (Halcyon) today announced a partnership to launch a digital marketplace for the trading of sustainably processed natural rubber.

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Paysafecard enters five new EU countries with Google

Google has added paysafecard, a leading prepaid solution and part of the Paysafe Group (Paysafe), as a new payment method in the Google Play Store in the UK and four additional European countries: Germany, France, Spain and Greece.

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South Korea's Coinone makes Ripples in cross-border remittance markets

This month Coinone Transfer, a payments business and a subsidiary of Coinone, introduced South Korea’s first blockchain-powered remittance mobile app and web service called Cross — offering faster, lower cost payments to Thailand and the Philippines.

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European Cards Stakeholders Group seeks feedback on card standardisation

The European Cards Stakeholders Group (ECSG), the industry association in charge of cards standardisation in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), is today releasing version 8.5 of the SEPA Cards Standardisation Volume (the Volume) for a three-month public consultation.