It’s often said that history repeats itself. It’s hard to look at the current state of play regarding instant, or real-time, payments in the EU and U.K. right now and not think about that adage. Because right after the EU standardized an ambitious plan to...
Payments FinTech Bottomline has teamed with Pay.UK to help companies prevent fraud. The collaboration, announced Monday (July 17), sees Pay.UK — the recognized standards body for the U.K.’s national retail payment schemes — launching its Payer Name Verification service via Bottomline Payment Services. According to...
The U.K. has been experiencing a widespread payments fraud epidemic in recent years. Authorized push payment (APP) fraud, for example, increased 40% between 2020 and 2021 and amounted to £583 million ($706 million) in losses in 2021, nearly half of the £1.3 billion ($1.57 billion)...
The U.K. Payment Systems Regulators (PSR) announced on Tuesday (May 24) that it will need to delay an important deadline for companies to comply with new requirements to fight authorized push payment (APP) fraud. However, the regulator is planning to expand the number of companies...
March 21, 2024
It’s often said that history repeats itself. It’s hard to look at the current state of play regarding instant, or real-time, payments in the EU and U.K. right now and not think about that adage. Because right after the EU standardized an ambitious plan to accelerate instant payments, the U.K. has countered with a proposal […]
February 14, 2023
The U.K. has been experiencing a widespread payments fraud epidemic in recent years. Authorized push payment (APP) fraud, for example, increased 40% between 2020 and 2021 and amounted to £583...
July 17, 2023
Payments FinTech Bottomline has teamed with Pay.UK to help companies prevent fraud. The collaboration, announced Monday (July 17), sees Pay.UK — the recognized standards body for the U.K.’s national retail payment schemes — launching its Payer Name Verification service via Bottomline Payment Services. According to a news release, this will give businesses more assurance that […]
