Japanese Payment Methods Konbini and Pay-easy Join APAC Giants on PPRO’s Payments Platform
- 5 years 8 months ago
- E-Commerce, Payments, PaaS
PPRO, the world's leading local payments platform-as-a-service, has entered the Japanese e-commerce market. Two popular Japanese payment methods – Konbini and Pay-easy – join over 150 local payment methods on PPRO's platform, a portfolio that already includes APAC heavyweights like Alipay, WeChat Pay, UnionPay, and GrabPay.
Banking Circle Research Reveals How Payments Businesses Are Adapting in the Wake of COVID-19 Restrictions
Recent research[1] commissioned by financial infrastructure provider, Banking Circle, following a webinar on the impact of COVID-19, has found that businesses are innovating rapidly to meet their customers’ ever-changing needs. Key highlights:
Pandemic Accelerates Contactless Payment Adoption in the Nordics
The first four months of 2020, during which the Nordics imposed strict Covid-19 social distancing measures, saw contactless payments in the region increase by an unprecedented 12 percentage points, according to transaction data from European payments industry leader, Nets, released today.
Asia Pacific Partnership Offers FIs a Future-proof Solution for All Their Payment Needs
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Compass Plus further strengthened its partnership with Stratus Technologies in Asia Pacific with the announcement of the successful stress testing of TranzAxis using Stratus
TranSwap Launches E-Remittance Services for Foreign Domestic Workers
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
TranSwap, a home-grown cross-border payments platform for businesses, today announced that it has launched an e-remittance service, for employers of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) to digitally send money back to their FDW's families during Circuit Breaker. The launch comes at a time when it has been challenging for FDWs to access remittance services to send money home and support their families.
Marriage Care Roll Out MobiCash to Enable Charitable Donations
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Marriage Care, a UK relationship counselling service charity, are rolling out MobiCash, a mobile payment service, to all of their centres that provide counselling across England and Wales.
Bitcoin Halving to Attract More Investment, Says eToro's Simon Peters
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Investment, Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin, the world’s best known and arguably most successful crypto, will undergo a halving on the 12th May. According to Simon Peters, analyst at investment platform eToro, the halving could not only see the price of bitcoin rise, as it has done following previous halvings, but it could also result in a whole new brand of crypto investors. The halving, which will be the third time it has happened on bitcoin, will see the block halve from 12.5... more
MEA Retail Banks Strongly Believe in a Cashless Society According to Temenos Research
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Online Banking
Banks in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are the strongest believers in a cashless society, according to a global retail banking survey released by Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company. The in-depth survey conducted in 2019 by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on behalf of Temenos reveals that 6 in 10 Middle East and African banking executives think cash will dip below 5% of retail transactions in the next five years, compared... more
Genome is Waiving Service Fees for All Low-Risk Businesses as a Support Act During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Covid-19, e-Payments, Money Transfers, Banking
Genome is an Electronic Money Institution, licensed by the National Bank of Lithuania, founded in 2018. Specializes in online financial services for personal and business needs: the opening of business, settlement and merchant accounts with dedicated IBAN’s, providing SEPA and SWIFT transfers with a possibility to do currency exchange and also payment processing via credit cards and all other alternative payment methods. The fintech company has... more
Form3 and Barclays Enable Access to the SEPA Instant Payment Scheme for FinTechs, With Ebury as the Launch Client
Form3, the leading cloud-native, payment technology provider, and Barclays, a leading provider of financial services to regulated payment institutions, have announced a combined directly connected access solution to the SEPA Instant payment scheme with Ebury as launch client.
Worldpay from FIS Enables One-Click Google Pay Integration for Merchants
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Payments
FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, today announced the addition of Google Pay to its Hosted Payment Page (HPP) product for online merchants. Because Worldpay from FIS has made the technical integration within their HPP offering, merchants can simply “turn on” Google Pay to enable express online checkouts.
Judopay and SafeCharge Partner With Envoy Taxi App to Help Launch Unique New Taxi Courier App
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Judopay, a leading mobile-first payment provider, today announced that together with SafeCharge, a Nuvei company, it will enable Envoy Taxi app to take payments in-app as it launches its unique courier app using London’s Black Taxis. It means that people living in London will now be able to use the app to order a collection and deliver items.
TransferGo and RDC Partner to Combat Financial Crime
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Money Transfers, Risk Management
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today announced it is extending its partnership with RDC, the global leader in compliance screening. The three-year extension will see TransferGo utilise RDC’s next-generation customer screening technology to help combat financial crime ahead of their electronic money institution (EMI) licence activation this summer.
TPAY Mobile and Vodafone Egypt Launch Digital Payment on Google Play
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Vodafone Egypt, the largest mobile network operator in Egypt in terms of active subscribers and TPAY MOBILE, the leading digital payment enabler in the Middle East and Africa, announced today the launch of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) on the Google Play store. Through this partnership TPAY MOBILE, which operates in the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, in addition to seven other countries, enables Vodafone Egypt subscribers to purchase from Google Play... more
Latoken Lists TOP50 by CMC
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
LATOKEN is delighted to announce the listing of Monero (XMR), Cardano (ADA), Decred (DCR), and Ravencoin (RVN), which are the TOP50 cryptocurrencies according to Coinmarketcap. Since now, depositing, trading, and withdrawals are open for ADA/BTC, ADA/USDT, XMR/BTC, XMR/USDT, DCR/BTC, RVN/BTC, RVN/USDT trading pairs. The joint daily volume of the listed coins is over 350 million in USD.
