Payments

OT Provides a Unified Transportation Payment Card in the Philippines

8 years 3 months ago
Payments, Infrastructure

OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, today announced its partnership with AF Payments Inc. (AFPI) to provide multi-purpose smart cards in the Philippines to allow end-users to have one single card to commute and pay in Manila.

Payment Institute CM Payments Licenced by De Nederlandsche Bank

8 years 3 months ago
Payments, Compliance

Payment Institute CM Payments has been licenced by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) for the execution of payment services. As a result, CM Payments is now an official Payment Institution operating under the supervision of DNB and the first mobile-focussed Payments Institute with a DNB license.

Ingenico Predicts Black Friday Spending Growth Across UK and Europe

8 years 3 months ago
Payments, Retail Banking

The UK is set for higher online Black Friday retail spending growth than the US, according to new data from Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile division of Ingenico Group.

Ingenico Group Offers Room to Grow for Brantano and Jones Bootmaker’s Multichannel Ambitions

8 years 3 months ago
Payments

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payments, today announced details of its innovative multichannel payment solution for footwear retailers, Brantano and Jones Bootmaker. The offering has been implemented specifically to support the ambitious growth plans of the two retail brands.

MFS Africa Connects 120 million Mobile Wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa

8 years 3 months ago
Payments

MFS Africa, the leading Pan-African fintech company, today announced that its MFS Hub is now connected to 120 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through partnerships with mobile network operators including Airtel, Econet, MTN, Orange, Tigo and Vodafone, MFS Africa now has unparalleled reach into mobile wallets across the continent. The MFS Hub scales transactions across networks and borders to create greater value for customers and... more

Lipis Advisors Research Reveals Lower Cost of Instant Payments Implementation is Opening the Market for Small and Mid-Sized Banks

8 years 3 months ago
Payments

A new study by Lipis Advisors, experts in real-time payments, has found that the cost of migrating to Instant Payments infrastructure for small and medium sized banks is far lower and more controllable than previously thought. This revelation suggests that smaller banks are actually better positioned to respond to regulatory and consumer pressures for Instant Payments, and that real time banking doesn’t need to be the preserve of large, well-... more

Elavon and System Innovators Partner to Protect Government Payment Data

8 years 3 months ago
Payments, Security, Data

Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, and Systems Innovators, a leading enterprise revenue management and centralized cashiering provider, have teamed up with government agencies to deploy a payment system that helps protect citizens’ information, helps prevent fraud and provides industry-compliant EMV technology.

Flypay Signs a Deal with Nando’s

8 years 4 months ago
Payments

International restaurant group, Nando’s, has announced a partnership with Flypay, the market leader in innovative state-of-the-art technology and its ground-breaking new Flyt platform. Flypay will focus on leveraging digital innovation to improve the experience for Nando’s customers, first by streamlining the online ordering process. Future plans include integrating Nando’s technology partners on to the Flyt platform and revolutionising the... more

Spire Payments to Release its Android-based SmartPOS and its Converge™ Software Framework at TRUSTECH 2016

8 years 4 months ago
Payments, Infrastructure

Spire Payments, a leader in payment technology and solutions, will be launching its SPx1, a next generation SmartPOS device, and its ‘Converge’ payment software framework at TRUSTECH 2016 in Cannes, France. The SPx1 SmartPOS is a milestone in the evolution of payment devices. Seamlessly running multiple applications, this EMV and PCI approved Android device offers an enriched consumer/merchant interaction point akin to a tablet or smart mobile... more

LotteCard Opts for Gemalto’s Contactless Sticker for Payments and Transport in South Korea

8 years 4 months ago
Payments, Infrastructure

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying its Optelio Contactless Stickers to LotteCard – one of Korea's largest credit card networks. The miniature size sticker is one third the size of a sta

How did Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference in Moscow Go?

8 years 4 months ago
Blockchain, Bitcoins

On Thursday, the 10th of November, Moscow hosted Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia – the largest Eastern European annual conference on cryptocurrency and blockchain. Representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Sberbank, Skolkovo, as well as a number of entrepreneurs and founders of blockchain-based startups shared their views and developments.

Cinkciarz Innovates Online Currency Exchange and Payments Markets

8 years 4 months ago
Payments, Cryptocurrencies

Cinkciarz, a European pioneer in the online currency exchange market, has announced it will use the latest GPU technology from NVIDIA® as part of a groundbreaking project to transform the way people exchange currencies and pay online. Cinkciarz will be utilizing the NVIDIA DGX-1™, the world's first purpose-built system for deep learning and AI accelerated analytics, to help its users make smarter transactional decisions.

Adyen Adds WeChat Pay to its Platform Globally

8 years 4 months ago
Payments

Adyen, the payments company powering global commerce for Uber, Facebook and Netflix amongst others, today announced that it has added WeChat Pay to its portfolio of local payments methods. It’s the first major payment service provider to integrate WeChat Pay into its offering on a global scale – providing businesses with access to 400 million Chinese shoppers.

SEQR Reveals Global Instant Peer-to-Peer Money Transfer

8 years 4 months ago
Transaction Banking, Payments, Infrastructure

SEQR, a subsidiary of Nasdaq Stockholm-listed Seamless (STO:SEAM), is launching a peer-to-peer money transfer solution that enables users to instantly transfer money to each other regardless of where they are in the world. The service is now being rolled out for SEQR users in 14 countries. The solution is automatically available for those who download SEQR.