In today’s top payments news around the world, Visa is rolling out a new program meant to link European financial institutions (FIs) and merchants with cutting-edge digital payment offerings, Payments Canada is teaming with Mastercard’s Vocalink to advance a new Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system....
Payments Canada is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink for clearing and settlement for the country’s new real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR). Delegated by the Canadian Government, Payments Canada is responsible for the clearing and settlement infrastructure, processes and rules. The RTR is the...
Mastercard-owned Vocalink has contracted with LINK through 2031 to continue offering ATM switching and settlement services to roughly 60,000 ATMs in the U.K., Mastercard announced on Friday (Oct. 25). An infrastructure partner to LINK since 1986, Vocalink will remain the technology provider that connects ATMs...
Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. 18). “We are thrilled to be partnering with...
October 07, 2019
The good news for customers — and the challenge for financial services players, both established and emerging as the decade comes to a close — is that when it comes to payments, this is the era of customer choice. Walking around at the Sibos conference in London last week, Vocalink CEO Gregor Dobbie said the […]
December 14, 2018
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 and other advanced technologies to help banks identify...
December 06, 2018
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 to be done. In the latest edition of...
October 02, 2018
Halloween comes early this year as we delve into a slew of grisly facts about financial crime in our latest Data Drivers. Losses amount to $1.4 trillion? While 41 percent of...
November 12, 2020
Payments Canada is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink for clearing and settlement for the country’s new real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR). Delegated by the Canadian Government, Payments Canada is responsible for the clearing and settlement infrastructure, processes and rules. The RTR is the foundation of Payments Canada’s plans to modernize the payments infrastructure […]
October 25, 2019
Mastercard-owned Vocalink has contracted with LINK through 2031 to continue offering ATM switching and settlement services to roughly 60,000 ATMs in the U.K., Mastercard announced on Friday (Oct. 25). An...
October 18, 2019
Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced...
September 26, 2019
TSB is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink to roll out a solution to help prevent fraud and payment mix-ups, Vocalink announced in a press release on Thursday (Sept. 26). TSB...
