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ISO 20022: Full of Promise But Treasurers Remain Wary

June 14 2022

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• Barclays
• SWIFT

“Global payment has been transformed for the better over the last decade and while champions of the new payment messaging standard ISO 20022 believe it will deliver it even more profound benefits for the industry over the next ten years, corporate treasurers are more circumspect. At a recent conference Ross Jones, head of global payments at Barclays, […]

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What Barclays/Lloyds Wrist Slap Means for Open Banking APIs

May 24 2022

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• Barclays
• Lloyds

“One of the promises of Open Banking was that it would level the playing field, making it possible for new entrants to compete with the banking behemoths but for that to happen there needs to be transparency. Any inaccurate information can skew the market and potentially disadvantage those that rely on that information to compete. […]

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End of days as Barclays brings bPay into Pingit

March 5 2019

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• Barclays

“Barclays’ bPay app has had its day as it will be brought into Pingit to build out this mobile payment brand. The latter has about 3.6 million users, but bPay, which was launched in 2014, has users “in the high tens of thousands,” a Barclays spokeswoman says. With two separate apps, and the struggle against rivals […]

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Barclays launches new digital platform in Western Europe

September 27 2018

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• Barclays

“The new digital platform is result of long-term project with its international corporate and institutional clients across Portugal, Spain, France and Ireland. Germany is expected to join later this year, followed by other countries.”

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Barclays quick to embrace Open Banking with 3rd party account view in banking app

September 12 2018

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• Barclays
• Open banking

“Barclays says it will embrace the Open Banking revolution by updating its core mobile banking app allowing customers to view accounts from rival banks in one place. This change has been driven by the new Open Banking regulations which came into force earlier this year. Open Banking is a European regulation which forces the banks […]

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Crowdz Selected for Barclays Techstars London Accelerator

August 21 2018

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• Barclays
• Blockchain

“The primary goal of Crowdz’s blockchain-based Smart Transaction Networks is to use the blockchain, along with the associated technologies of artificial intelligence, self-executing smart contracts, and IoT (Internet-of-Things) sensing, to accelerate business-commerce transactions within the $25 trillion global business-to-business commerce market from the current weeks or months to literally milliseconds.”