Equals Group is set to acquire Roqqet in a deal subject to regulatory approval. In a press release announcing the acquisition Monday (Nov. 28), the U.K.-based FinTech Equals said the purchase of the open banking payments firm will enable it to offer its merchant customers...
Real-time payments firm ACI Worldwide is partnering with NORBr, a payment services distributor platform for digital merchants, to facilitate merchants’ connection to ACI’s solutions. Nigel Reavley, country manager of France, ACI Worldwide said in a press release on Thursday (May 12) that the company’s merchant...
Payments regulation can feel like a new entrant on to the global scene, given the sheer number of headlines it has suddenly started turning up in over the last few years. But the truth of the matter, Payoneer Chief Operating Officer Keren Levy told Karen...
David O’Brien, CEO of Agreement Express, told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass interview that when it comes to sponsor banks, the heat is on. At a high level, the sponsor bank is responsible for getting the funds that are paid by end consumers to the...
May 19, 2023
To access central bank accounts in the European Union (EU) today, electronic money token (EMT) issuers, and by extension all electronic money institutions (EMIs), have no choice but to rely on banking partners. That lack of direct access to fiat settlement affects stablecoin issuers like Circle — the regulated FinTech behind the USD coin (USDC), […]
August 03, 2021
Payments regulation can feel like a new entrant on to the global scene, given the sheer number of headlines it has suddenly started turning up in over the last few...
July 06, 2021
David O’Brien, CEO of Agreement Express, told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass interview that when it comes to sponsor banks, the heat is on. At a high level, the sponsor...
January 22, 2020
The rollout of PSD2’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) has been a bit bumpy, to say the least. A year ago (when the rollout was still officially on the calendar for...
November 28, 2022
Equals Group is set to acquire Roqqet in a deal subject to regulatory approval. In a press release announcing the acquisition Monday (Nov. 28), the U.K.-based FinTech Equals said the purchase of the open banking payments firm will enable it to offer its merchant customers the ability to accept account-to-account (A2A) payments. It added that […]
May 12, 2022
Real-time payments firm ACI Worldwide is partnering with NORBr, a payment services distributor platform for digital merchants, to facilitate merchants’ connection to ACI’s solutions. Nigel Reavley, country manager of France,...
September 18, 2019
Pan-European payment infrastructure provider EBA CLEARING is rolling out a new request to pay (R2P) solution supported by 26 payment service providers (PSPs) from 11 countries, the company said in...
November 15, 2017
PPRO Group, the cross-border ePayment company, and the European bank Klarna announced Wednesday (Nov. 15) a partnership that will enable payment service providers (PSPs) to offer credit-based payments to European merchants...
