Finance in Motion

Barclays | March 11, 2020

In a UK high street first, Barclays now lets customers make payments from current accounts held with other banks from within its app. Initially, the feature has been rolled out to customers who have a linked current account with NatWest, Nationwide or Bank of Scotland. It will shortly be rolled out to other providers including Santander, Lloyds, Halifax and RBS. The service uses the industry-approved Open Banking API technology, ensuring the process is secure for customers, says Barclays. In the...

Investing.com | April 06, 2020

The cost of swapping euros and sterling for dollars in FX swap markets fell on Monday to the lowest in over a decade in a sign of success for central banks' operations, though some other indicators imply money market stress has not wholly dissipated. The swap moves follow a series of policy efforts to squelch the strains in dollar funding markets, including the U.S. Federal Reserve's dollar swap lines for many foreign central banks and offer of temporary 'repo' facilities for oth...

PAYMENTS

Roxe | December 09, 2021

Roxe, the leading next-generation, open global payment network that uses blockchain to make payments smarter, today announced it has partnered with DocFox to streamline and scale the onboarding for its business customers. Roxe unifies fragmented global payment systems, providing fast, low-cost, peer-to-peer global payments to banks, central banks, payment companies, remittance providers and consumers. With DocFox, Roxe is working to establish an intelligent, automated business onb...

BITCOIN AND CRYPTO

BitPay | April 25, 2022

BitPay, the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services, today announced two new exchanges and two new wallets are adopting its accurate payment protocol including top crypto providers Bitso, Bitstamp, Edge, and Guarda. BitPay’s accurate payment protocol, the BitPay Protocol, enables more reliable blockchain payments by eliminating common payment exceptions including overpayments, underpayments, late payments, unconfirmed payments, and poten...