Youtap launches QR code solutions and apps for markets in Africa and Asia
Youtap has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia.
Youtap’s solution enables customer-initiated or merchant-initiated QR code payments for smartphones and smart point-of-sale devices. The solution conforms to the BharatQR industry standard developed by Bharat, Mastercard and Visa. Youtap’s apps can be white-labelled and branded with the logo and colours of the mobile money service.
The new solution gives any merchant or small business owner with a smartphone the potential to download Youtap’s Merchant App, self-register, and start accepting mobile money payments. Likewise, any subscriber with a smartphone can download the Youtap Pay App and start making payments. Merchants who do not own a smartphone could be provided a printed QR code to accept mobile money.
With Barclays money talks
Barclays is set to become the first UK high street bank to launch payments using Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, enabling customers to make payments using their voice. Available now within the Barclays Mobile Banking (BMB) app.
The Siri integration means BMB customers won’t need to open the app to pay existing payees or mobile contacts, they can simply ask Siri such as “Pay John £15 with Barclays”. Payments are authenticated by the user with Apple’s TouchID fingerprint recognition ensuring maximum security without the need to remember their passcode.
This technology will enable customers to send money virtually hands free, and will make secure banking easier, faster and simpler for all customers, including those with additional needs.
AQMetrics Announces Appian and Macrosynergy as Latest New Clients
AQMetrics announced the addition of two new clients, Appian Asset Management Limited (Appian) and Macrosynergy Partners LLP (Macrosynergy), to its growing client portfolio.
Appian, a leading Irish based asset management firm managing a range of funds that invest globally, has selected AQMetrics’ solution for AIFMD Annex IV reporting. Macrosynergy Partners, a U.K. based discretionary global macro manager dedicated to providing competitive risk-adjusted returns to its clients, will adopt the AQMetrics automated reporting and filing system to ensure compliance with the CPO-PQR rules.
More than a million Tikkie users
Pay-back app Tikkie now has more than a million unique users. This landmark comes a little more than a year after its launch by ABN AMRO, in June 2016.
Tikkie is the fastest-growing payment app in the Netherlands: it reached and passed the previous landmark of half a million users in May 2017.
ABN AMRO’s Chief Digital Officer Frank Verkerk comments, ‘Tikkie was developed as a convenient and friendly tool for asking people to pay you back. We’re proud that Tikkie is so popular that it’s reached the magical landmark of one million users. The reason for its success, we believe, is that it solves a problem that people face every day, one that lacked a simple solution. We also wouldn’t have been able to set this record without the feedback from happy clients. We’ll keep listening to what they want, to add new functionalities and make the app even easier to use.’
