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PCN Pulse
Week – 21-28 June 2021 Stay on the weekly beat. In this weeks Pulse: Fundings – from Mollie to Voyager Visa acquires Tink for $2.2 billion 2021 – a record year for European fintech investment Crypto mining crackdown in China – what does it mean for Bitcoin? How PCN launched a 4-day workweek in a […]
Around the cashless world in 80 days
Zurich, June 28 2021 – The hype around contactless plastic money is no longer dedicated to Europe alone. It is an international phenomenon. A global tour reveals stunning developments in the world of digital payments, putting paper money into museums rather than into wallets and pockets. It is said that in China, one can travel […]
Open Banking Expo Awards announce the finalists
Open Banking Expo is delighted to announce that the shortlist for its inaugural Awards ceremony has been released and is now live on the Open Banking Expo Awards website. More than 90 financial institutions, fintechs and Open Banking pioneers across the globe are featured on the list. Open Banking Expo co-founder, Kelly Stanley, said: “I’d […]
PCN Pulse
14/06/2021 – 20/06/2021 Stay on the weekly beat. From Startups to Funding Scale-Up Europe present to Emmanuel Macron. Bringing together more than 200 members of the European tech ecosystem – the initiative aims at developing actionable proposals to support the emergence of 10 technology leaders valued at over $100 billion by 2030 while at the […]
Viva Wallet Announces Partnership with Fraudio
Viva Wallet announces new partnership focused on tackling the elimination of payment fraud and money laundering. Since its inception in 2000, Viva Wallet has become the first entirely cloud-based European neo-bank using Microsoft Azure and has since opened branches in 23 countries in Europe. Viva Wallet is known for its ability to provide businesses of […]
Trust Payments partners with Zip for Buy Now, Pay Later
Trust Payments, the global unified payments group, has partnered with Zip, the first Buy Now, Pay Later provider to join its network of payment partners. The agreement means UK merchants using Trust Payments’ platform can offer Zip at check out and allow customers to pay over four interest-free installments. Founded in 2013 in Sydney, Zip is […]
Have digital options even replaced the petty cash tin?
Any glance at any payment statistic, from Faster Payments to contactless, to click and collect and to the growing global trend of Request to Pay, would suggest that cash no longer has a place in any business in this mid- pandemic 2021 digital world. Have digital options even replaced the petty cash tin? In a […]
European Payments Initiative (EPI) Podcast Series in collaboration with Netcetera and G+D – Part 3 (Video)
We are back with the third and final episode of our European Payments Initiative Podcast Series in collaboration with Netcetera and G+D. In this episode we talk with Andrej Vckovski, CEO and co-founder of Netcetera and Gabrielle Bugat, member of Group Management Team at Giesecke+Devrient about what would make the EPI successful by looking back […]
Money20/20 Predicts Central Bank Digital Currencies Spark New Era for Fintech
Global industry leader shares its predictions for fintech, as we enter Fintech 2.0 in the next three to five years London, 15th June 2021: In a newly released Fintech 2.0 whitepaper, Money20/20, the place where the global fintech community does business, lays out its vision for the next era of fintech, as we enter the recovery phases of […]
Hanseatic Bank unifies authentication with Netcetera and Entersekt
Hanseatic Bank unifies its authentication processes with a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution from Netcetera, the market leader for secure digital payments. In the future, the German private bank will use the same authentication procedures for credit card payments on the Internet, login to online banking, and various self-services, including the “Transakt” app […]