CashtoCode now offers unique cash deposit option for iGaming operators across 60,000 locations
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
After a successful launch in Austria and Germany in 2017, CashtoCode (C2C), the instant cash payment service for online goods, today announced its availability in several new European markets including the UK, Greece and Italy. This expansion means that players can now make physical cash deposits into their iGaming accounts from more than 60,000 retail locations in Europe.
Singapore offers banks more time to implement e-payment protection rules
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will give banks and credit card issuers more time to adopt the E-Payments User Protection Guidelines (“Guidelines”).
Trust Wallet Joins FIO Protocol to Advance Blockchain Usability
- 6 years 10 months ago
- E-Wallets, Cryptocurrencies
The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and FIO Protocol, the new inter-wallet operability protocol that removes the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of moving tokens and coins, is delighted to announce that
Philippines issues new rules on acquiring cryptocurrency assets
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
The Philippines, through the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), unveils a comprehensive set of new rules governing cryptocurrencies in a bid to effectively regulate and protect investors. CEZA has approved the Digital Asset Token Offering (DATO) regulations that cover the acquisition of crypto assets, including utility and security tokens. Under the new framework, CEZA is the principal regulating authority. The Asia Blockchain and Crypto... more
Securitize, Coinstreet Partners and STO Global-X Collaborate to Modernize Digital Securities in Asia
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies, Consultancy
Coinstreet Partners, the pioneering token consultancy and crypto investment firm, STO Global-X, a security token exchange platform, and Securitize, a blockchain-based digital security issuance and management platform, entered into a strategic partnership to bring one-stop, end-to-end digital security offering (DSO) services to the vibrant Asia market, which has yet to see widespread adoption of tokenized securities.
Western Union Digital Money Transfers Now Live in South Korea via kakaobank Mobile App
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Money Transfers, Banking
The Western Union Company, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, and
MuchBetter takes aim at the multi-billion-pound iGaming payments monopoly
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
One year on from its commercial launch, payments app MuchBetter, is announcing a number of significant milestones and figures, as it signals its intent to ‘break the monopoly of iGaming payments’, in an industry estimated to be worth £40bn. Having launched in November 2017, key highlights and milestones after 14 months include:
Earnings Review: Strong Performance in Q4, Continued Momentum for 2019
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
This morning, we hosted a conference call where we shared Mastercard’s financial results for the fourth quarter and our 2018 fiscal year. If you listened to that call, you heard how we had a strong end to the year, delivering broad-based growth. The numbers speak for themselves – double-digit gains in both volume and transactions, with earnings per share increasing 40 percent year-over-year, on a currency-neutral basis and excluding special... more
Suits Me partners with HooYu to simplify banking for migrant workers
Leading identity confirmation provider HooYu has partnered with hassle-free alternative banking solution, Suits Me, to help financially-excluded workers get quicker and simpler access to bank services.
Ultra-secure payments app reaches 150,000 users in same time as Monzo
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
One year on from its commercial launch, payments app MuchBetter, is announcing a number of significant milestones and figures, as it signals its intent to ‘break the monopoly of iGaming payments’, in an industry estimated to be worth £40bn. Having launched in November 2017, key highlights and milestones after 14 months include:
UK consumers threaten to thwart banks’ SCA compliance
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Compliance
Lenders, card issuers and payment service providers that need to comply with new fraud rules under PSD2 next year face a challenge from their own customers. In a new FICO survey, only about half of UK consumers say they are willing to give their bank or card issuer their mobile number in order to carry out extra authentication steps. Many banks are counting on authentication using mobile phones to comply with the rules.
UnPAY, Tencent Research Institute Released Whitepaper on Indonesia’s Payment Market
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
UnPAY and Tencent Research Institute have jointly published a whitepaper on Indonesia's payment market. This whitepaper focuses on hotspots and key issues of the payment system in Indonesia and is the second of its "Venturing Out" series. It aims to help Chinese payment companies expanding overseas gain a deeper understanding of the world's fourth most populous country. The first whitepaper which was published in October last year, honed in on... more
CRYPTOCURRENCY LIQUIDITY PROVIDER B2C2 OTC RECEIVES FCA AUTHORISATION
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Trading Systems, Cryptocurrencies
B2C2, one of the largest cryptocurrency liquidity providers and the leader in electronic OTC trading, today announced that its UK subsidiary, B2C2 OTC Ltd, is now authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to arrange and deal in Contracts for Difference (CFDs) with eligible counterparties and professional clients. The FCA authorisation will allow these clients of B2C2 OTC Ltd to gain exposure to cryptocurrency markets via... more
GBIH LIMITED implements complete decentralization by developing 'YANT,' a blockchain-based P2P cryptocurrency trading system
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
GBIH LIMITED (CEO Yoon Bliss) announced recently that the YANT blockchain project they have been pursuing has now been successfully developed into a blockchain-based P2P cryptocurrency trading system, thereby achieving complete decentralization that solves the instability caused by depending on exchanges.
