Payments

Payroc and Ethos Sign Cryptocurrency Partnership

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

The Ethos Bedrock platform will be integrated with Payroc’s payment gateway platform, enabling a simple “Pay with Crypto” button to be placed on merchant websites, giving consumers the option of paying with cryptocurrency in addition to traditional payment forms. The companies made their partnership intentions known late last week during Digital Currency Con in Park City.

Mastercard Brings STEM Education Program to Major League Baseball Youth Academies

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Infrastructure

Girls4Tech™ comes to Washington Nationals Youth Academy and DREAM Charter School in New York with curriculum that has reached 50,000+ girls Mastercard recently teamed up with Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals Youth Academy to bring its signature Girls4Tech STEM program to Washington, D.C.

ACH Alert Experiences Tremendous Growth as Payments Fraud Rises, Prevents More Than $388 Million in Fraudulent Transactions

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

ACH Alert, an award-winning provider of electronic payments fraud prevention technology for financial institutions of all sizes, has experienced record growth, signing on more financial institutions in the last 12 months than the past four years combined while successfully preventing more than $388 million in fraudulent transactions. To maintain this growth and meet increased demand for the company’s fraud prevention solutions, ACH Alert also... more

Long Queues Cost UK Retailers Up To £12 Billion Per Year

8 years 2 months ago
E-Commerce, Payments

New research released today by Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, reveals that long queues are the biggest turn-off for UK shoppers, costing retailers up to £12 billion each year in potential sales losses[i].

Shieldpay Taps US Market

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Shieldpay has increased its global footprint by launching in the US by partnering with the car classified site, AutoClassics.com. Shieldpay enabled the site to become fully transactional to its customers for the first time across the UK, EU and US.

Visa Hosts Dubai Smart City Accelerator's FastTrack Mentoring Program

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Visa, the world leader in digital payments, and Startupbootcamp, the leading network of innovation programs accelerating startups worldwide, hosted “FastTrack”, a mentoring session for startups participating in the Dubai Smart City Accelerator, which is hosted in Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre (dtec), the largest hub of its kind in the Middle East that is wholly owned by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA).

SIA Signs Financing Contract to Acquire First Data Business

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Infrastructure

SIA, a European hi-tech firm leader in the payment services and infrastructures sector, has today signed a financing contract to support the acquisition of First Data’s business in a number of countries in Central and Southeastern Europe. UniCredit, one of the main reference banks and sponsor of SIA Group, acted as Sole Underwriter, guaranteeing the total underwriting of the amount, Global Coordinator, Initial Bookrunner, Initial Mandated Lead... more

YouGov Poll: UK Adults are Seeking innovative Digital Payment Experiences From Banks

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Banking

UK adults are ready for real-time interaction with their banks. The results of a recent YouGov survey, on behalf of Ondot, revealed today that online security and fraud prevention comes top in what Brits think banks should guarantee, with 60% wanting 'peace of mind' when using cards online. The survey also discovered that consumers are keen to play a much more proactive role in managing their personal finances.

Tinkoff and Sberbank Announce P2P Money Transfers Using Just a Mobile Number

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Online Banking, Mobile Banking

Tinkoff Bank has launched a joint initiative with Sberbank to allow their customers to make P2P money transfers using a mobile number, as part of the bank’s drive to expand the payment options available to its customers. The service will be rolled out from today in the bank’s mobile apps and the personal online accounts of Moscow-based customers, and will be available to all customers across Russia by the end of July.

PPRO Group Partners with YapStone

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

PPRO Group, a cross-border e-payment specialist, today announced it will enable online marketplace payments provider YapStone to offer Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) also referred to as Local Payment Methods (LPMs). The move will expand YapStone’s global e-commerce reach across the travel, vacation rental and new online marketplaces and software partnerships.

Yandex.Checkout Upgrades Mobile SDK

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Yandex.Checkout has updated its mobile SDK―the tool for providing businesses with friction-free payment methods in their Android and iOS mobile apps. Yandex.Checkout becomes a pioneer among Russia’s payment providers to introduce such a feature.

Basware Unveils New Analytics Dashboard for Payment Plans

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Data

Basware, the global leader in networked source-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services, has released enhancements to visualize data related to payment plans, helping customers to get the most out of this functionality in Basware’s Purchase-to-pay (P2P) solution.

UAE Exchange Rebrands its Africa Operations as Unimoni

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Money Transfers

UAE Exchange, a leading global money transfer, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand, announced the rebranding of its Africa operations as “Unimoni” (www.Unimoni.com). The announcement was made by Promoth Manghat, Executive Director of Finablr (www.Finablr.com) and Group CEO, at an event held in Nairobi, Kenya, in the presence of dignitaries, partners and other guests.

You can now pay using Jiffy to park in Via Milano Parking car parks at Milano Bergamo Airport thanks to an agreement between SEA, UBI Banca and SIA

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Today you can now use your smartphone to pay for parking in the P2 and P3 car parks at the Milan Bergamo Airport, operated by ViaMilano Parking, thanks to the Jiffy service provided by UBI Banca and SIA. When you use Jiffy, cameras scan the license plate of your vehicle when you enter the car park and then you use your smartphone to pay when you leave.