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Partnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard’s Vocalink Renews LINK Collaboration Through 2031
Mastercard-owned Vocalink has contracted with LINK through 2031 to continue offering ATM switching and...
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Payment 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...
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Consumer FinanceVocalink CEO: The Three Guideposts For Navigating Payments’ Evolution
The good news for customers — and the challenge for financial services players, both...
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Security & 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...
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PersonnelNew Vocalink CEO Dobbie Will Lead UK B2B Payment Expansion
The Mastercard company Vocalink tapped Gregor Dobbie to be its new CEO, the company...
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VISAVisa CEO Throws Shade On Real-Time Payments
There’s a need for speed in payments, supposedly — but how much speed is...
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B2B PaymentsVocalink Brings Real-Time Payments To Saudi Arabia
Vocalink is teaming up with Saudi Payments to launch real-time payments in Saudi Arabia,...
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B2B PaymentsUK Study: Businesses See Fraudsters As ‘Ahead Of Industry’
In the UK, might the fraudsters be getting ahead of the firms they are...
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Security & FraudVocalink: Freezing Mule Accounts With AML Tech
Whoa, mule. Pay.UK’s Faster Payments team said this week that it is deploying technology...
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Digital PaymentsFrom Cash To Real-Time Payments
Forty countries: That’s how many places either have real-time payments programs in progress or...
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Security & 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...
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MastercardMastercard Send Debuts In UK With Real-Time Payments To Bank...
In the first service offered by Mastercard after integrating Vocalink last year, and with...
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Fraud PreventionVocalink: How To Stop Fraud In The Era Of Real-Time...
As the speed of payments increases around the world, the potential scope of fraud...
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B2B PaymentsNatWest, Vocalink Analytics Go After Invoice Fraud
U.K. bank NatWest is teaming up with payments company Vocalink Analytics to tackle B2B...
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Financial InclusionFinancial Inclusion: Accelerated, Collaborative, Mobile and Global
There are billions of unbanked individuals in the world. Given access to basic financial...
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SMBsSMBs Have Payment Fraud Blind Spot
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are in the dark when it comes to the...
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EarningsMastercard Tops 20174Q Views on Robust Cross-Border Transactions
Absent the same impact U.S. tax laws had on other firms recently reporting results,...
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B2B PaymentsBFC Bank Loops Into UK’s Faster Payments
The U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme has another participant. BFC Bank, a challenger bank with...
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BankingVocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together...
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Merchant InnovationMastercard’s Miebach On 2017’s Big Payments Breakthroughs
While everyone is looking ahead to 2018, it’s worth a look back at some...
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Executive Insights2017 In Payments: The Year Of …
A lot can happen in a year. What makes one stand out from another?...
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Faster 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...
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EarningsMastercard Gets Vocal on VocaLink, Kroger, Masterpass
A rise in consumer spending, broad-based across several geographies, helped Mastercard beat Wall Street...
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RegulationPSR Offers Up Annual Report and Regulatory Roadmap
The latest annual report by the Payments System Regulator, which oversees the British payments...
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B2B PaymentsHow Faster Payments Collaboration Breeds Financial Services Competition
Accelerated payments initiatives like the U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) are only valuable when...
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B2B PaymentsStarling Eases Access To Faster Payments With Vocalink
Payment systems provider Vocalink, recently acquired by Mastercard, continues to push for quicker payment...
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NewsNEWS: Mastercard Completes Acquisition of Vocalink
Now that the ink has dried on the paper, Mastercard’s acquisition of Vocalink is...
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Mobile PaymentsMastercard President On How Networks Drive Innovation
From bits of paper receipts to bytes across POS, payments have scaled technological heights...
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Payment MethodsStarling Bank To Incorporate Pay By Bank For Online Purchases
Starling, the digital bank, has inked a partnership with Pay by Bank, the mobile...
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Partnerships / 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...
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Partnerships / 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,...
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Faster PaymentsCan Faster Payments Meet Faster (And Higher) Consumer Expectations?
Today, consumers can quickly access to digital media like music and videos on their...
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Faster PaymentsNEW REPORT: Faster Payments, Happy Consumers?
New payment solutions are not only allowing payments to be sent faster, they’re also...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsBarclaycard And VocaLink Team To Enable Merchants To Accept Pay...
Barclaycard announced Thursday (Feb. 2) it has partnered with VocaLink to enable its merchants...
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InvestmentsMasterCard 4Q Revenue Down, Cross Border Volumes Up 13%
Shares of global payments processor Mastercard were down roughly 2.8 percent in midday trading...
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B2B 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,...
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RegulationMastercard VocaLink Acquisition Moving Forward
Mastercard’s acquisition of U.K. payments technology firm VocaLink has marked an important milestone as...
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B2B PaymentsUK Wants More Competition In Payments Infrastructure
VocaLink isn’t facing enough competition in its role of providing the underlying infrastructure of...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsWirecard, VocaLink Team Up On Mobile Banking App
VocaLink announced Thursday (Dec. 15) that Wirecard, the European payment and internet technology company,...
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Faster 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...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsACI Worldwide And VocaLink To Create Payments Network
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and VocaLink,...
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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...
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MastercardMastercard In $920M VocaLink Buy For UK Scale
Mastercard said Thursday morning (July 21) that it has struck a deal to acquire...
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B2B 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...
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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...
- Payment Methods
VocaLink’s New ATM Processing Deal
VocaLink has secured a massive five-year deal to provide processing for the LINK ATM network....
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Payment MethodsMasterCard Reportedly In Talks To Buy VocaLink
According to reports from Sky News, MasterCard is in what’s being referred to as...
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Faster PaymentsFIS, VocaLink First To Receive Faster Payments Accreditation
Two FinTech companies are the first of their kind to gain accreditation for Faster Payments’...
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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....
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RegulationUK 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...
