Moorwand CEO Vicki Gladstone selected for Top 100 Women In Fintech
Vicki Gladstone, Moorwand CEO and COO, has been selected as one of the Top 100 Women in Fintech by FinTech Magazine and their audience. See the whole top 100 list.
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Dear Luc: The free ATM conundrum
I often hear about consumers over-using costly features like free ATM withdrawals. How can I put some controls around what customers are doing with my cards?
Dear Luc, I often hear about consumers over-using costly features like free ATM withdrawals. How can I put some controls around what customers are doing with my cards? Although giving a user access to ATM withdrawals is standard for a banking proposition, it doesn’t necessarily mean you want withdrawals to be one of the main […]
Vialet selects Moorwand as Issuer and BIN Sponsor for new credit launch
Alternative financial solutions provider VIALET has selected Moorwand as the issuer and BIN Sponsor across Poland, Spain, Lithuania and Latvia for its new credit product .
The History of Payments: The rise of Prepaid Cards
Customers are presented with a wealth of payment methods daily, so Moorwand has created a new series where our team will delve into the different types available. First up: Prepaid Cards
The industry often talks about payments as if it’s one, homogeneous group. But in actual fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth. A ‘payment’ is simply the action of paying or being paid. But the method this action chooses in order to complete itself is completely variable. Today, customers are presented with a wealth […]
What do customers want from their banking products?
The UK is crowded when it comes to banking, so businesses wanting to succeed in this space need to ascertain what customers really want from their payments and banking products. But does what the market think?
The UK is already a crowded market when it comes to banking. And it has been for some time now. An Accenture report from 2018 found new entrants accounted for an “eye-popping” 63% of companies operating in the UK’s banking and payments industry. “It’s a pretty saturated market as things stand, with some very big […]
Luc Gueriane joins EPA Project Banking Access team
Moorwand is pleased to announce that Luc Gueriane, CCO, has joined a group of other industry figures to support the Emerging Payments Association Project Banking Access group.
Moorwand is pleased to announce that Luc Gueriane, CCO, has joined a group of other industry figures to support the Emerging Payments Association Project Banking Access group. The purpose of the group is to help the payments industry support EMIs, PIs, digital banks, and merchants to open and keep open bank accounts for safeguarding funds […]
Mobile wallets aren’t going anywhere, and here’s why…
In a pre-pandemic world, mobile wallets struggled to compete with the penetration rates of alternative - more embedded - payment methods. But then COVID happened, and it caused the payments landscape to shift.
In a pre-pandemic world, mobile wallets struggled to compete with the penetration rates of alternative – more embedded – payment methods. According to Capgemini’s World Payments Report, there were 708.5 billion non-cash transactions in 2019 globally. But just one billion of these were via mobile wallets. Whilst a staggering 81% of Chinese consumers were using […]
Let’s look back at 2020’s 12 days of payments
To bring a bit of festive cheer to an otherwise gruelling year, Moorwand has put together 12 days of payments from 2020 which we think the industry should be proud of.
It’s no secret that COVID-19 has disrupted payment firms’ transaction volumes this year. Particularly those who rely heavily on brick and mortar customers or international travel, as opposed to e-commerce-based merchants. When the UK lockdown began, Revolut saw a dramatic 40% dip in revenues due to its reliance on interchange fees. But eight months later, […]
Moorwand strengthens client offering with growth of its Account Management team
Moorwand has introduced its Account Management team to provide a consistent and ongoing level of support for its programme managers once they go to market.
With the continued development of the business throughout 2020, Moorwand has grown its Account Management team to provide a consistent and ongoing level of support for its programme managers once they go to market. Kevin Friedrich, has joined Moorwand as Head of Client Relations, a new position designed to ensure Moorwand’s clients have access to […]
From Open Banking to contactless payments, what will shape the fintech industry in 2021?
2020 has been dramatic to say the least. We can expect this turbulent year to have a longstanding impact with even more drastic change on the horizon. So, what do the next 12 months have in store?
2021 predictions from Luc Gueriane, Chief Commercial Officer at Moorwand 2020 has been dramatic to say the least. In the fintech industry there has been a monumental shift towards digital payments. The mix of shop closures, lockdown measures and the booming ecommerce sector have made fintech products more relevant, and more important, than ever. And […]