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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard’s Vocalink Renews LINK Collaboration Through 2031
Mastercard-owned Vocalink has contracted with LINK through 2031 to continue offering ATM switching and settlement services to roughly 60,000 ATMs in the...
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5.1KPayment MethodsMastercard Partners With Four Retailers For Pay By Bank App
Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay...
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3.8KConsumer FinanceVocalink CEO: The Three Guideposts For Navigating Payments’ Evolution
The good news for customers — and the challenge for financial services players, both established and emerging as the decade comes to...
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4.2KSecurity & FraudVocalink Teams With TSB To Stop Real Time Payments Fraud
TSB is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink to roll out a solution to help prevent fraud and payment mix-ups, Vocalink announced in...
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3.2KPersonnelNew Vocalink CEO Dobbie Will Lead UK B2B Payment Expansion
The Mastercard company Vocalink tapped Gregor Dobbie to be its new CEO, the company announced in a press release. Managing director since...
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5.6KVISAVisa CEO Throws Shade On Real-Time Payments
There’s a need for speed in payments, supposedly — but how much speed is enough? Bloomberg reported on Wednesday (May 29) that...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsVocalink Brings Real-Time Payments To Saudi Arabia
Vocalink is teaming up with Saudi Payments to launch real-time payments in Saudi Arabia, reports in Thomson Reuters Zawya said Thursday (April...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsUK Study: Businesses See Fraudsters As ‘Ahead Of Industry’
In the UK, might the fraudsters be getting ahead of the firms they are bilking? A recent study from Vocalink points to...
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7.8KSecurity & FraudVocalink: Freezing Mule Accounts With AML Tech
Whoa, mule. Pay.UK’s Faster Payments team said this week that it is deploying technology powered by Mastercard’s Vocalink, which uses machine learning...
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8.2KDigital PaymentsFrom Cash To Real-Time Payments
Forty countries: That’s how many places either have real-time payments programs in progress or live. That’s progress. Yet, there is more work...
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6.8KSecurity & FraudVocalink On The Grim Facts Behind Financial Crime’s $1.4T Toll
Halloween comes early this year as we delve into a slew of grisly facts about financial crime in our latest Data Drivers....
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6.5KMastercardMastercard Send Debuts In UK With Real-Time Payments To Bank Accounts
In the first service offered by Mastercard after integrating Vocalink last year, and with an eye on real-time payments, Mastercard Send is...
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7.0KFraud PreventionVocalink: How To Stop Fraud In The Era Of Real-Time Payments
As the speed of payments increases around the world, the potential scope of fraud shifts to targets beyond cards. Criminals are taking...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsNatWest, Vocalink Analytics Go After Invoice Fraud
U.K. bank NatWest is teaming up with payments company Vocalink Analytics to tackle B2B invoice fraud, the firms announced in a Tuesday...
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5.4KFinancial InclusionFinancial Inclusion: Accelerated, Collaborative, Mobile and Global
There are billions of unbanked individuals in the world. Given access to basic financial services via mobile and other technological conduits, quality...
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4.9KSMBsSMBs Have Payment Fraud Blind Spot
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are in the dark when it comes to the impact payments fraud can have on their company,...
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7.0KEarningsMastercard Tops 20174Q Views on Robust Cross-Border Transactions
Absent the same impact U.S. tax laws had on other firms recently reporting results, Mastercard put up numbers Thursday (Feb. 1) that...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsBFC Bank Loops Into UK’s Faster Payments
The U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme has another participant. BFC Bank, a challenger bank with plans to launch later this year, recently announced...
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10.0KBankingVocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with...
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9.9KMerchant InnovationMastercard’s Miebach On 2017’s Big Payments Breakthroughs
While everyone is looking ahead to 2018, it’s worth a look back at some of the major payments milestones of 2017. For...
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15.0KExecutive Insights2017 In Payments: The Year Of …
A lot can happen in a year. What makes one stand out from another? How shall 2017 go down in the history...
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10.9KFaster PaymentsReal-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive
The U.S.’ first new payment and clearing system in more than 40 years is up and running. At 4:59:40 p.m. on Monday (Nov....
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6.5KEarningsMastercard Gets Vocal on VocaLink, Kroger, Masterpass
A rise in consumer spending, broad-based across several geographies, helped Mastercard beat Wall Street estimates for the second quarter. The company announced...
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5.1KRegulationPSR Offers Up Annual Report and Regulatory Roadmap
The latest annual report by the Payments System Regulator, which oversees the British payments industry, debuted Thursday – and gives a nod...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsHow Faster Payments Collaboration Breeds Financial Services Competition
Accelerated payments initiatives like the U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) are only valuable when financial institutions and other players can actually access...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsStarling Eases Access To Faster Payments With Vocalink
Payment systems provider Vocalink, recently acquired by Mastercard, continues to push for quicker payment offerings. Reports said its latest focus-driven initiative involves...
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7.5KNewsNEWS: Mastercard Completes Acquisition of Vocalink
Now that the ink has dried on the paper, Mastercard’s acquisition of Vocalink is now official, as announced today on Mastercard’s Q1...
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7.5KMobile PaymentsMastercard President On How Networks Drive Innovation
From bits of paper receipts to bytes across POS, payments have scaled technological heights globally. At an Innovation Project 2017 fireside chat, Mastercard president...
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2.9KPayment MethodsStarling Bank To Incorporate Pay By Bank For Online Purchases
Starling, the digital bank, has inked a partnership with Pay by Bank, the mobile payment app of Vocalink, to enable users to...
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4.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsRegulators Say A-OK For Mastercard’s VocaLink Acquisition
Done deal. Mastercard’s proposed acquisition of U.K. payments technology firm VocaLink has received approval from regulators, with the deal expected to close...
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2.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard’s £700M Acquisition of Vocalink Has Received Final Clearance
It looks like it’s official — Mastercard will be allowed to acquire Vocalink for £700M, now that the UK’s competition authority has cleared...
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6.5KFaster PaymentsCan Faster Payments Meet Faster (And Higher) Consumer Expectations?
Today, consumers can quickly access to digital media like music and videos on their smartphones. Should they also expect the same ease...
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6.7KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: Faster Payments, Happy Consumers?
New payment solutions are not only allowing payments to be sent faster, they’re also simplifying the process for users and merchants to...
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5.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsBarclaycard And VocaLink Team To Enable Merchants To Accept Pay By Bank App
Barclaycard announced Thursday (Feb. 2) it has partnered with VocaLink to enable its merchants to accept mobile payments via the Pay by...
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3.4KInvestmentsMasterCard 4Q Revenue Down, Cross Border Volumes Up 13%
Shares of global payments processor Mastercard were down roughly 2.8 percent in midday trading on Tuesday (Jan. 31), as the company beat...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsQuestions Surround Mastercard-VocaLink Buy, For Faster Payments And Beyond
As the Competition and Markets Authority raises questions about Mastercard's pending buyout of VocaLink, what might that mean for faster B2B payments?
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4.6KRegulationMastercard VocaLink Acquisition Moving Forward
Mastercard’s acquisition of U.K. payments technology firm VocaLink has marked an important milestone as it attempts to gain regulatory approval for the...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsUK Wants More Competition In Payments Infrastructure
VocaLink isn’t facing enough competition in its role of providing the underlying infrastructure of key payment systems like Bacs, according to the...
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4.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWirecard, VocaLink Team Up On Mobile Banking App
VocaLink announced Thursday (Dec. 15) that Wirecard, the European payment and internet technology company, has joined the payment provider’s backing of the...
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5.4KFaster PaymentsBehind The ACI/VocaLink Real-Time Payments Push
With a global initiative, ACI Worldwide and VocaLink are bringing immediate, end-to-end payments to financial institutions. WA Proctor, vice president and product line manager of UP...
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5.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsACI Worldwide And VocaLink To Create Payments Network
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and VocaLink, a global payments systems company, announced on Tuesday...
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Mastercard On Why VocaLink – And Why Now
Since the announcement yesterday of Mastercard’s $920 million acquisition of VocaLink all eyes have been on the U.K. scale opportunity. But Michael...
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4.6KMastercardMastercard In $920M VocaLink Buy For UK Scale
Mastercard said Thursday morning (July 21) that it has struck a deal to acquire the vast majority – at 92.4 percent –...
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6.5KB2B PaymentsVocaLink Proposes New Payments System To Ease SME Cash Flow
Industry analysts agree that late B2B payments threaten the survival of small and medium-size enterprises. Often operating within thin margins, sometimes without...
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VocaLink Enables UnionPay Cards At ATMs
VocaLink has announced a five-year deal with UnionPay in order to make its cardholders have ATM access in not only the U.K....
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VocaLink’s New ATM Processing Deal
VocaLink has secured a massive five-year deal to provide processing for the LINK ATM network. This particular deal is reported to be the...
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8.1KPayment MethodsMasterCard Reportedly In Talks To Buy VocaLink
According to reports from Sky News, MasterCard is in what’s being referred to as “exclusive talks” with VocaLink to buy the U.K.’s...
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6.8KFaster PaymentsFIS, VocaLink First To Receive Faster Payments Accreditation
Two FinTech companies are the first of their kind to gain accreditation for Faster Payments’ access through the New Access Model. The distinction...
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Is A MasterCard, VocaLink Acquisition In The Cards?
Reports surfaced yesterday (March 3) indicating that MasterCard is considering a bid for U.K. payments provider VocaLink in what could be as...
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4.1KRegulationUK Payments Regulator Pushes Big Banks To Open Up VocaLink
The U.K.’s VocaLink processes 90 percent of the nation’s salaries, 70 percent of household bills and nearly the entirety of state benefits...
