8 Out of 10 Card Payments Now Contactless in the Nordics
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Denmark leads the pack with a staggering 90 per cent of card payments now contactless. Norway is close behind at 87 per cent. Sweden and Finland have now both surpassed 70 per cent.
Chile’s Data-driven Lender Mento Launches on Mambu to Improve Financial Inclusion
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
Mento’s migration to the leading cloud banking platform will bolster Chile’s efforts to improve financial inclusion by providing microlending and other credit options to the unbanked and underbanked
B2B Payments Platform Billhop Raises €10.5 Million Led by EQT Ventures to Help Businesses Optimise Working Capital and Gain Process Efficiencies
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Fundraising News, Payments
Billhop enables businesses to pay supplier invoices using existing cards, regardless of the suppliers’ payment stack – tapping into $120 trillion B2B payments market, which lacks low-friction options compared to B2C Creates opportunities for increased capital efficiencies, creating win-wins for all buyers, sellers, and their payment providers New funding will be used for hiring, customer acquisition, and geographical expansion
Nium and FINCI Announce Partnership to Strengthen Payment Services Internationally
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
The partnership will enable FINCI to provide quicker and more cost-effective pay-outs to key markets in Europe and APAC
THG Adds Nuvei as Global Payments Provider
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Nuvei Corporation, the global payment technology partner of thriving brands, announces today that it has gone live as a payment provider with THG plc, the global technology platform company specialising in
Accenture to Develop UAE National Instant Payment Platform
Accenture has been selected by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) to lead a consortium of companies to help execute its National Payment Systems Strategy. In collaboration with SIA, now part of Nexi Group, and G42, Accenture will build and operate the National Instant Payment Platform (IPP) over the next five years.
Splitit Finds Over Half of Uk Credit Card Holders Plan to Use Buy Now, Pay Later in 2022
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
Over half of UK credit card holders (54%) plan on using a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)1 service within the next 12 months. 46% agree using a BNPL service is a smarter way to manage their finances. In the next year, a fifth (20%) plan to use a BNPL service over four times. Just under half (49%) agree they prefer a BNPL service that works with their current credit card(s).
Failure of 'easy' Resolutions Show It Is Time for Brits to Take a Long-term View
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Digital banking, Personal Finance, Payments
People believe popular new year’s resolutions such as exercising or eating healthily are easier to commit to than saving into their pension Less than half of adults say they would easily commit to saving an extra £75 a month into their pension One in five people don’t currently save into their pension each month
IXOPAY Partners with FinTecSystems
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Payment orchestration and open banking synergy The industry leading payment orchestration platform, IXOPAY, has partnered with FinTecSystems, a leading open banking and data analytics platform.The strategic partnership will see IXOPAY and FinTecSystems offering clients a smart payment solution that provides high-risk merchants with independence, flexibility, and security backed by data-driven automation.
ACI Worldwide and COMO Global Partner to Help eCommerce Businesses Grow Revenues
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Payments service provider COMO Global to utilize ACI Secure eCommerce, giving merchants access to wide range of acquirers and alternative payment methods
2022 Payments Summit Agenda Features In-Depth Sessions on Mobile and Contactless Trends, BNPL, Fraud Mitigation, Cryptocurrency and Authentication
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Cryptocurrencies
Event to include prominent speakers from across the global payments landscape
AstroPay Launches Cryptocurrency Offering
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments
Users can trade cryptocurrencies without paying any purchase, trading, transfer or maintenance fees First digital wallet in Latin America to support ADA Cardano, in addition to Bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoins
SumUp and PrestaShop Partner to Empower Businesses Selling Online
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Global financial technology company SumUp and PrestaShop - the leading e-commerce platform in Europe and Latin America - announce a partnership that will give hundreds of thousands of merchants on the PrestaShop platform access to SumUp’s extensive product suite of tailor-made business tools thanks to PrestaShop’s SumUp Payment Module.
Another way to #BeYou: T-Mobile brings True Name® by Mastercard® to T-Mobile MONEY
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
What’s the news: T-Mobile MONEY customers can now use True Name, a feature that lets customers display their chosen name on their T-Mobile MONEY debit card. Why it matters: Transgender and non-binary Americans face substantial challenges and even discrimination and harassment when names on their bank cards don’t match who they truly are. And it’s difficult to get those cards updated. T-Mobile makes it easy for all customers to be themselves... more
Visa's Crypto-Linked Card Users Made Payments Worth $2.5 Billion in First Fiscal Quarter of 2022
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Visa, the popular global payment network company, said during an earnings call that its customers made $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 18,685 crore) in payments using its crypto-linked cards during the first fiscal quarter of 2022 that ended on December 31. That volume, when put into perspective, already accounts for over 70 percent of all crypto-card volume throughout the fiscal year of 2021 that ended on September 30 2021, signalling increased... more
