Our CEO speaks to Banking Tech News

We share our insight with Bank­ing Tech­no­logy Magazine about the mis­con­cep­tion with block­chain in the industry sur­round­ing the belief that it is a solu­tion to mak­ing faster and securer pay­ments. There are some issues around the block­chain that explain why, in its present form, it isn’t an ideal replace­ment. For example, the Bank of Canada, the Read More …

What is the future of digital cash?

We speak to FinTech Futures about the future of crypto and digital cash. Decem­ber 8, 2017 The recent World Eco­nomic Forum (WED) report “Sweden could stop using cash by 2023”, says that the coun­try is mov­ing towards favour­ing cards and mobile pay­ment apps. Yet retail­ers are expec­ted to accept cash for at least a couple of years Read More …

Blockchain in Policing: Go Beyond the Hype

Kalypton CEO Lars Dav­ies speaks to Poli­cing Insight about the hype sur­round­ing data pro­tec­tion and block­chain. As Gart­ner observes, Block­chain is massively ove­rhyped but that doesn’t mean it should be ignored: “Block­chain tech­no­lo­gies are extremely hyped, evolving at dif­fer­ent tra­ject­or­ies, but should not be ignored. They offer the poten­tial for sub­stan­tial change in tech­no­logy devel­op­ment and Read More …

Fintech Startup Kalypton Gains $2.6m Investment

After Kalypton Gains $2.6m Invest­ment, U.S. Fed­eral Reserve Awards Top Vendor Status Press Release Decem­ber 1 2017 Fin­an­cial ser­vices and global real-time pay­ments and set­tle­ments com­pany Kalypton has profited from a £2m ($2.6m) invest­ment by reach­ing the pin­nacle of the U.S. Fed­eral Reserve’s Faster Pay­ments Taskforce top vendors list. This invest­ment has been received from a Read More …

Payment Eye Magazine: New tech solves GDPR

The Ver­itas GDPR 2017 Report sur­veyed 900 busi­ness decision-makers across 8 sig­ni­fic­ant coun­tries, and des­pite 31 per­cent of the respond­ents believ­ing that they are already com­pli­ant, Young says the study shows that they aren’t com­pli­ant to GDPR. Data pri­vacy is driv­ing the European Union’s Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tions (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely Read More …

Kalypton Speaks to Mobile Payments World About This GDPR Compliant Tech

Data pri­vacy is driv­ing the European Union’s Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tions (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other fin­an­cial ser­vices insti­tu­tions have run out of time to find to find ways to com­ply with the require­ments. Loom­ing on the hori­zon for fail­ing to com­ply is a dark cloud of Read More …

New technology solves GDPR for Banking and Financial Services

We speak to Pay­ments Cards & Mobile about how the major­ity of organ­isa­tions think they’re GPDR com­pli­ant and actu­ally aren’t. The fines that could be imposed for non-compliance could be up 4 per­cent of global annual turnover or 20 mil­lion euros – whatever is the greater. Data pri­vacy is driv­ing the European Union’s Gen­eral Data Read More …

We speak to ITProPortal about the new tech that solves GDPR for banks

Loom­ing on the hori­zon for fail­ing to com­ply is a dark cloud of sig­ni­fic­ant fin­an­cial pen­al­ties, we speak to ITPro­Portal about plan­ning for GDPR. Data pri­vacy is driv­ing the European Union’s Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tions (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other fin­an­cial ser­vices insti­tu­tions have run out of time Read More …

American Banker speaks to our CEO about the US Fed’s faster payments plan

CEO Lars Dav­ies speaks to Amer­ican Banker Magazine about the Faster Pay­ments Task Force ini­ti­at­ive in the United States. Now that a Fed­eral Reserve-convened panel has fin­ished its work on mod­ern­iz­ing the U.S. pay­ment sys­tem, the Fed itself has some import­ant choices to make. The cent­ral bank has long per­formed key jobs in the nation’s pay­ments Read More …

Fedcoin’ Strikes Again: Fintech Companies Propose Use of Crypto to US Fed

In a report by the Faster Pay­ment Task Force, fintech com­pan­ies have out­lined how Block­chain tech­no­logy can be used to make pay­ments faster for the US Fed­eral Reserve. In this art­icle, The Coin­Tele­graph looks at the com­pan­ies that sub­mit­ted their pro­pos­als includ­ing Kalypton Group, Ripple, Eccho, Xal­gorithm, Hub Cul­ture, Nan­o­pay Cor­por­a­tion and Thought Mat­rix Con­sult­ing. Read More …