Samsung Pay Expands To Four More Countries
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Samsung Electronics today celebrates the continued growth and enthusiasm for Samsung Pay around the world by expanding in four markets over two days. Samsung Pay officially launches in Sweden and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and enters early access in Hong Kong and Switzerland.
Western Union Cooperates with DIT to host UK RegTech Trade Mission
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Money Transfers
The Western Union Company (WU), a leader in global money transfer and payments services, is teaming up with the Department for International Trade (DIT) to host 16 ‘RegTech’ industry leaders in a ‘RegTech’ Lunch and Learn session in New York.
WorldRemit Collaborates with Tigo Money for Mobile Transfers to El Salvador and Guatemala
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Money Transfers
Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit announced today it has partnered with Millicom’s subsidiaries Tigo Money to open up new remittance routes to El Salvador and Guatemala, enabling Salvadorans and Guatemalans abroad to send money transfers instantly to more than one and a half million Tigo Money users in those countries, directly from the WorldRemit app.
Thames Card Technology Capitalises on Strong 2016 with £2m Machinery Investment
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
In response to increasing customer demand for its payments, gift, loyalty and membership card services,Thames Card Technology has invested £2m+ in state of the art personalisation equipment. The equipment increases Thames’ card personalisation capacity by 60%, brings loyalty keyfob encapsulation in-house and delivers greater efficiency. The investments follow success in 2016, where Thames doubled its budgeted profit expectation.
123ContactForm Now Supports Square Payments
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
123ContactForm, which has helped more than a million users worldwide build online forms and surveys, announced today that it now supports Square payments. Square, a leading payment gateway that also enables merchants to accept payments with a physical device for swiping credit cards, handles millions of transactions across Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dwolla and Plaid team on Tokenised ACH Payment Integration
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
Today, Plaid and Dwolla announced a new partnership to offer a fully tokenized ACH payment integration. The partnership makes it possible to tokenize account and routing numbers and authenticate user bank accounts through Plaid and start accepting Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments in minutes with Dwolla’s ACH API.
Starling Bank Adopts Pay by Bank app
Pay by Bank app has announced a partnership with Starling Bank that will launch its market leading mobile payments service to Starling Bank’s customers. Starling Bank is the first challenger bank to commit to Pay by Bank app’s innovative technology, which enables customers to make real-time payments directly from their existing mobile banking app on their smartphone or tablet.
Garanti Bank Romania Opts for Allevo's Open Source Solution for Processing Payments
Garanti Bank Romania selected FinTP, Allevo’s open source solution to connect to SWIFTNet, ensuring compliance to SEPA standards and regulations, in order to optimize its operations. The bank continues, as such, to grow rapidly on the Romanian market, offering better services to its customers.
WorldRemit Collaborate with Wafacash for Money Transfers to Morocco
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Money Transfers
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered with leading Moroccan financial company Wafacash to further support the growing demand for instant remittances and the immediate access of funds in the country. WorldRemit customers can now send overseas money transfers to be collected in one of the 1620 Wafacash cash pick up locations all over the country, including Marrakesh, Tanger, Tetouan, Salé, Fes, Agadir, Meknes, Oujda, Kenitra,... more
BBVA Unveils New Blockchain-Based Transfer System to Simplify Overseas Payments and Reduce Transaction Fees
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Blockchain, Money Transfers
Banco Bilbao Baningo Vazcaya Argentaria SA (BBVA), second largest multinational Spanish Banking group, has announced execution of its first cross-border payments, based on the blockchain-supported fund transfer system. By virtue of the new technological advancement, designed by Ripple, San Francisco firm, BBVA managed to transfer about 50-euto dominated payments from Spain to Mexico within a few seconds. Usually, conventional transactions... more
Token announces $15.7 million in Series A funding
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider that enables banks to generate revenue from PSD2, today announced $15.7 million in Series A funding from major investors including Octopus Ventures, EQT Ventures and OP Financial Group.
Dovetail and IBM Sign Watson Partnership
Dovetail, the provider of best-in-class payments and liquidity management solutions, today announced a global strategic partnership with IBM to offer Dovetail payment solutions in combination with IBM’s Watson Financial Services products.
UK Online Card Spending Increased by a Quarter
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
Internet spending has jumped by more than a quarter in the last two years, a new report analysing how the UK uses payment cards online reveals. Card spending on the internet totalled £154 billion in the UK in 2016, averaging £422 million a day, figures from The UK Cards Association show. This is a rise of 28 per cent since 2014, when online spending amounted to £120 billion. Analysis finds one in four card purchases online is on entertainment,... more
UBS Twint Mobile Payments App Becomes Available
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
UBS Twint is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The free app is ideal for everybody with a UBS account or a Swiss credit card of any kind: Twint payments are debited directly to your bank account or credit card.
Visa Profits Jump in Q2
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Credit Cards
Today Visa Inc. announced financial results for the Company’s fiscal second quarter 2017, ended March 31, 2017. Fiscal Second Quarter 2017 Key Highlights:
