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Visa upgrades Verified by Visa technology simplifying e-commerce
Visa announced enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. The upgrade will deliver rich data to financial institutions and merchants to better authenticate consumers and reduce fraud on transactions made via a mobile or [...]
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BBVA commercialises Open Banking APIs ahead of PSD2
Spanish bank BBVA says it is open for business with its Open Banking programme and is making eight of its APIs commercially available for the first time ahead of the new PSD2 regulation. The launch of BBVA API Market comes after the Spanish bank says it spent more than a year working with developers and businesses to [...]
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The changing face of UK payments – Mobile payments and the rise of data
The UK Payments industry, along with the rest of Europe, is facing a raft of challenges in the near future, from the proliferation of alternative payment channels, increasingly demanding merchant end-user consumer expectations and the imminent implementation of open data regulatory standards set to unleash competition from FinTech upstarts. Mobile Four out of five UK [...]
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Fight over EBA’s recommendation on Screen Scraping hots up as banks up the ante
Just days after a coalition of 56 FinTech vendors lobbied the European Banking Authority in a strongly worded petition regarding the practice of Screen Scraping, The European Banking Federation (EBF) is asking the European Commission (EC) for its help on a Screen Scraping ban due to concerns over the privacy of client data, cyber security and innovation. The [...]
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PSD2 access to accounts: A huge hidden revenue opportunity for banks
There is a widely-held belief in the banking industry that PSD2 access to accounts (XS2A) has to be provided for free. This is not true. Sure, Europe’s banks must grant customer-permitted Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs) and Account Information Service Providers (AISPs) access to their bank accounts and financial data, but crucially, PSD2 says nothing [...]
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