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International multicurrency payments play a crucial role for many businesses, enabling them to conduct cross-border transactions with customers and suppliers located in different countries. As these payments can be more...

Think of the last few times you used your debit card. Were you holding your card sideways or vertically? What way do you hold it while making a contactless payment?...

Getting a new Business Account shouldn’t be a “big move”. Opening a new business account shouldn’t be a big move. With Ulster Bank now sending out thousands of letters to...

Introduction We are very pleased to announce our new Fire Open Payments User Interface, delivering enhanced branding and less friction in the payments flow. The aim of this new UI...

Introduction We are delighted to release improvements to the Fire Open Payments User Interface to all customers. If you are unfamiliar with Open Banking, click here to learn more, but...

We are pleased to announce that our business and personal customers may now pay by direct debit from Fire euro accounts. Direct debit is a very common way to pay...

Automating your payout process with batches In a previous blog post we described the payouts pain point some businesses experience today, how Fire can help automate this process and examples...

Product Owner Jonah is one of our Open Banking and technical specialists in Dublin, so we spoke to him about his career so far with Fire - the challenges but...

Compliance, Risk & Oversight Officer Shruti Patel is a core part of our London team. We sat down with her to find out what it's like working with Fire, as...

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Open Banking Payments provide a disruptive alternative to online payments, but what does an actual payments journey look like for a customer? If you have been following the fire.com blog...

Introduction The way in which merchants accept payments and the devices/terminals used to facilitate these transactions have undergone quite the evolution over the past 70 years. Merchant acquiring technology now...

The Dream that Might Still be Open Banking Open Banking was, at one time, set to give consumers access to their bank and e-money accounts with the ability to share...

Photo: Roy Keane launches Irish Guide Dog Day (Friday 7th May 2021) As Irish Guide Dogs for the blind launch their annual Guide Dog Day, we see Fire Open Payments...

The arrival of Open Banking Payments (also known as account-to-account (A2A) payments) is already starting to shift the way consumers and businesses pay and get paid. Regulated third-parties such as...

Discover the Benefits of Open Payments for your Business Open Payments are hitting the mainstream – it’s time to look at adopting the new payment technology Open Banking Payments are...

In an online retail setting, cart abandonment is when a shopper shows interest in a business’s products or services by adding items to their cart, but do not complete the...

Have you recently started a business or are you self-employed and looking to open a business bank account? We answer frequently asked questions by freelancers to help you make the...

How digital advertising agencies can simplify their payment workflows with client-specific accounts and debit cards. Managing a high volume of payments for many different clients at the same time, makes...

Trade into the eurozone easily with a Brexit-ready dual-currency business account The last thing you need when you are trying to run a business is uncertainty about the future of...

The administrative effort tied up in processing pay-outs can be a burden for many businesses. Whether accounts payable or the issuing of refunds, paying out in a traditional sense is...

Learn how Fire Open Payments give you a new, easier way to get paid The arrival of Open Banking represents a seismic shift in the way consumers and businesses use...

How e-commerce businesses can benefit from frictionless bank account payments that provide fast settlement, reduce fraud and cost less than card payments. For years, consumer buying behaviour has been shifting...

From 1st April 2020, fire.com Mastercard® debit card holders can now make contactless card payments of up to €50.00 / £45.00. This change is part of an industry-wide movement to...

Use Fire Open Payments to receive cost-effective, fast and secure payments The arrival of Open Banking represents a major change in the way consumers and businesses will use financial services....

Business Analyst Cailín is part of our Dublin team. We sat down with her to find out what it's like working at fire.com's HQ and what brought her to the...

At the core of fire.com are our software developers. We recently sat down with Darren, from our Dublin team, to find out what it's like working for one of Ireland's...

We recently sat down with Robert, Operations Analyst at fire.com, to find out what it's like working in the Operations team and what led him to fire.com. Check out the...

Eoin is part of the fire.com Product team. We recently sat down with him to find out what his job entails as Product Analyst and what brought him to fire.com....

If you’re thinking of setting up your own e-commerce business, online marketplaces can be a good way of reaching a wide audience at a comparatively low cost, leveraging market trust...

As part of our continuing growth, we are pleased to announce the opening of a new development hub for fire.com in Cork, Ireland. Our Cork team, comprising development and product...

The last few years has seen a significant rise in the number of institutions offering alternative finance options to businesses and consumers. From merchant cash advance, to crowdfunding and invoice...

If you are a UK business that regularly sells into the eurozone as part of your business model, or occasionally receive an invoice euro, having a pool of funds in...

You’ve come up with the concept, approved your plan, registered your company name and had your licenses approved… what next? When it comes to choosing a business account there are...

fire.com is changing the way businesses pay and get paid.  Working closely with leaders in alternative finance that provide invoice finance, merchant cash advance or traditional business loans, we are...

With new standards part of EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) becoming effective as of 14 September 2019, comes tighter regulations surrounding the authentication of payment transactions online. A key...

With more than 3,000 businesses now using fire.com, we are continuously enhancing our platform and adding new payment services to help our customers pay and get paid. The fire.com API...

You may or may not have heard about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA for short). Either way, what's important to know is, it will change the way you access your bank...

When it comes to change, the payments landscape, like so many other aspects of business is undergoing deep transformation. This change is driven by many factors – technology, regulation and...

There is little doubt that the effective control and management of business expenses is a key objective for organisations of all sizes – from start-ups to large corporates. Keeping business...

Today sees the launch of the fire.com business account payment initiation API. It is a key delivery as it now enables the complete integration of the business account with a...

You've made it through another end of year, your tax returns are complete, and you've promised yourself to be more organised next year. Being organised is a key aspect for...

Time is moving on. With the deadline for the UK to leave the European Union now just 12 months away businesses need to start preparing for the possibility of a...

For many UK and European based businesses, trading in both sterling and euro is an essential part of doing business. Given the size and proximity of the markets it is...

For many businesses the reconciliation of their bank account balance and transactions is a key control point. This will be easier now for fire.com customers who use Xero or FreeAgent...

On Saturday 13th January European wide changes in the rules about payments came into effect. These changes have been years in the making and they are designed to open things...

The need to make payments more secure whilst improving customer experience is becoming increasingly important for businesses. Our fire.com business account is used by a diverse range of business customers....

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