Exceeding Merchants’ Payment Expectations

New research into digitalising e-commerce highlights how payments businesses can utilise partnerships to improve the cross-border offering.

Turning Cross-Border Payments from a Burden to a Benefit

Livia Benisty (Banking Circle) explores the current offering and limitations of cross-border payments, and what steps PSPs and banks can take to deliver them as an added value service.

TMI’s View from Sibos – with Jussi Lindberg, Banking Circle

Jussi Lindberg (Banking Circle) covers key developments in the FX and cross-border payments space.

2022 Expert Predictions: A Year for Innovation in Banking and Payments

Banking Circle Group asked industry experts about their predictions and expectations for 2022. Which trends will continue? Will emerging innovation reach the mainstream? What are the opportunities and challenges for which the banking and payments industry should be preparing? The year for the full B2B finance stack Søren Mogensen, Chief Growth Officer, Banking Circle, believes […]

How a Global Health Crisis Brought about a Revolution in Business Banking

When we think about a health crisis, we don’t naturally assume banking will change as a result. Nevertheless, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered positive change within the financial services industry, as recent research by Banking Circle illustrates. When the first wave of lockdowns hit in March 2020, businesses of every type and size responded to […]

How Request to Pay Will Transform the Payments Landscape

Request to Pay – a new standard for requesting a payment – is being built on top of the existing payment infrastructure throughout Europe. With a patchwork of account-to-account solutions already covering a wealth of different use cases, how will Request to Pay change the payments ecosystem? In a recent Banking Circle webinar, Sarah Lauridsen, […]

Banking Circle Joins P27 Initiative as a Front-Runner Bank to Support Consolidation of Currently Fragmented Nordics Payments Ecosystem

London – Banking Circle has joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a front-runner bank in creating bulk-clearing for the Danish Krone, underlining its commitment to building a global payments infrastructure. P27 has been acknowledged as a vital initiative to address the disparate clearing systems currently operating across the Nordic region. P27, named for the […]

EPA Champions Open Access to Bank Accounts with Release of New Guidance

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which promotes collaboration and innovation across payments, has today released its updated guidance, EPA’s Guide to Payment Account Providers: 2021 edition, in partnership with the Association of Foreign Exchange and Payment Companies, to continue its work of campaigning for increased open access to accounts and payments within the UK. Traditionally, […]

Banking Circle Identifies Evidence of Increased Costs for EUR Payments from UK as a Result of Brexit

Banking Circle, the cross border payments expert, has identified an issue affecting some financial institutions handling cross border transactions from the UK to the EU. It seems Brexit has caused a number of EU banks to increase their fees for receipt of SEPA local payments in EUR from GB IBANs. Banking Circle Head of Sales, […]

How SMEs Can Benefit From Bounce-Back Banking

The current downturn is having a devastating and potentially fatal impact on small and medium-sized enterprises. But there are steps financial institutions can take to add value to the experience they deliver to the businesses known as ‘the backbone’ of most economies. Here, Anders la Cour, CEO, Banking Circle, examines the insights delivered by the […]

Banking Circle Supports Payments Businesses’ Merchants Ahead of the Big Christmas Sales Push

USD Collections for online marketplaces tackles transfers fees that erode marketplace seller profits

Using POBO and COBO to Ease Reconciliation Pain Points

Every treasurer knows the frustration that arises from receiving a payment and not knowing to which customer or supplier it relates. Challenges in reconciliation can cause cash flow and supply chain delays and potentially damage business relationships when settled invoices are chased unnecessarily. As B2B payments are rarely sent by direct bank transfer from one […]

Two Future Digital Awards for Banking Circle

Banking Circle has been awarded two prestigious awards in the 2020 Juniper Research Future Digital Awards. 

Rebuilding for the Digital Age

Banking Circle research has uncovered how financial institutions are rethinking the value of digital infrastructure to future-proof their business in a post-pandemic world. Anders la Cour, Co-Founder and CEO of the financial utility discusses how the crisis has accelerated digitalisation strategies across the industry. Earlier this year Banking Circle commissioned MagnaCarta Communications to take an […]