Tagged: payment service providers

July 20, 2026 @ 10:05 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued new guidelines setting out its expectations for the annual audit of payment service providers (PSPs), requiring licensed firms to strengthen oversight of risk management, regulatory compliance, and controls as the city-state’s digital payments sector expands. The Guidelines… Read More

November 13, 2023 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it is working with payment service providers to do more “to protect consumers from fraud, including authorized push payment (APP) fraud.” While FCA‘s review of firms’ fraud controls and complaint handling found examples of good practice, they were… Read More

November 5, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mollie, one of the fastest growing payment service providers in Europe, announced it has been granted a Payment Institution license in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Mollie originally launched in the UK in early 2021, “serving merchants both domestically and those expanding… Read More

July 14, 2023 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, which claims to be the global leader in cloud payments modernization, has deepened its existing partnership with KPMG LLP by “developing a new ISO 20022 maturity model to help payment service providers determine ISO adoption readiness.” Within the next four years, it is… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), which claims to be a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced a collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, to enable financial institutions and payment providers to utilize ACI solutions on the platform. The collaboration… Read More

February 9, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new insight report – The perfect payment partner? What merchants are looking for from their PSPs – from Banking Circle, the next generation technology-led Payments Bank, suggests that the services currently “offered by Payment Service Providers aren’t going far enough to support the shift… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Computop, a global payment service provider, and ESW, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce company, announced that the companies have “extended their strategic partnership in several key global markets.” Building on its nine-year relationship with Computop in the UK, ESW will now also “use its Paygate payment… Read More

October 25, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, a platform to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations, announced the public launch of its Payments Engine, a new suite of tools that will “enable payment service providers (PSPs) with the ability to provide a blockchain agnostic, end-to-end solution… Read More

July 11, 2021 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asheesh Birla, GM – RippleNet at American Fintech Ripple, which is currently involved in a lawsuit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently published a blog post, titled, “Evolving RippleNet for a Tokenized Future.” Birla writes that cryptocurrency and blockchain or DLT are… Read More

June 14, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA), a regulatory body of the European Union that’s headquartered in Paris, released a report, earlier this week, on the data offered by payment service providers (PSPs) on their readiness to apply strong customer authentication (SCA) for the set of payment… Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Authorities in China have reportedly told 13 of the nation’s largest tech firms to “rectify prominent problems” on their platforms, according to a recent report. These developments appear to be a sign that China continues to increase its regulatory scrutiny and pressure of its Fintech… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Spreedly, a provider of a secure, agnostic, and flexible platform that welcomes all payments participants, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new partnership program built for gateways and other Payment Service Providers (PSPs).  According to Spreedly, the Partnership Program was created to further support… Read More