Klarna partners with a new merchant every 8 minutes in 2019
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
2019 to date has proven to be a record growth year for Klarna, and this is before the much anticipated shopping holidays. Each day thousands of new consumers are choosing Klarna, with especially strong preference building in the UK and the US markets. The unique online and offline customer-centric offering, providing a healthier, simpler and smarter alternative to credit cards, and with multiple services to smoothen the end to end shopping... more
Discover and PayPal™ Collaboration Gives Cardmembers New Way to Redeem Rewards
Discover cardmembers can now use their Cashback Bonus® or Miles to pay for purchases at millions of online stores through PayPal, giving cardmembers another convenient and flexible way to reward themselves.
MVIS and CryptoCompare Launch the MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Bitcoins
MV Index Solutions (MVIS) in partnership with CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data, today announced the launch of the MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index (ticker: MVIBTC), an index designed to measure the performance of a digital assets portfolio which invests in Bitcoin, priced on select exchanges. The MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index is a robust and transparent benchmark for Bitcoin, which will be... more
Clearhaus-Newgen Payments partnership creates new opportunities for European ISOs and PSPs
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
European merchant acquirer, Clearhaus announces that is has integrated with the award-winning payment gateway, Newgen Payments. This integration provides a modern, future-proof white-label payment solution that’s market-ready for ISOs and PSPs to sell under their own brands.
Worldline’s e-Payments Challenge presents winners and smart new solutions to solve the payment challenges of tomorrow
- 5 years 8 months ago
- e-Payments
Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transaction services, proudly announces the winners of its e-Payments Challenge 2019, the industry’s unique hackathon that speeds up the innovation-to-business cycle. The competition showed an extraordinary level of professionalism amongst the Fintechs and produced spot-on solutions to a multitude of industry challenges. Best examples are OneVisage that won the Grand Jury award and Cloudasset... more
ABN Amro to Shut Down Android Wallet App
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
ABN Amro is discontinuing its Wallet app for Android smartphones as too few customers use the device to make payments. The Dutch bank says that fewer than five percent of its customers have ever used the bank's three-year old Wallet app on Android to make a payment. The decision to ditch the inhouse wallet comes just a month after ABN Amro rolled out Apple Pay for contactless payments on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac. The Android app will... more
StyloPay Taps Tribe Payments for Global Digital Wallet Offering
StyloPay, specialists in payment solutions and mobile applications, has selected Tribe Payments’ digital wallet technology. Tribe’s digital wallet technology will form part of StyloPay’s cloud-based payments-as-a-service offering that enables banks and card issuers to rapidly scale card programmes and mobile wallets globally.
PayPal to Buy Online Rewards Platform Honey for $4bn
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
PayPal has agreed its largest ever acquisition - a $4 billion deal to buy Honey Science Corporation, the firm behind a browser extension and app that helps people find online shopping rewards and deals.
Cornèrcard Launches Biometric Credit Card
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
Switzerland's Cornèrcard has teamed up with Gemalto and Visa to launch the country's first credit card featuring a biometric fingerprint reader. To register a fingerprint on the limited edition Cornèrcard biometric gold Visa credit card, users touch a sensor, with an LED signalling the successful capture. Then, for the first transaction with the card, users enter a PIN. After this, they can confirm payments at the point of sale by touching the... more
Nium to power cross-border payments for Cambodia’s PhillipBank
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Nium, the recently-rebranded digital cross-border payments platform for global enterprises and financial institutions, has announced that it will now power cross-border payments for the clients of PhillipBank, one of Cambodia’s growing banking group, across its network.
It’s time for a treat: Klarna brings ‘pup-up’ to London
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Klarna, the leading global disruptor of smoooth shopping and payments, celebrates the dog owning and dog loving communities with their brand new campaign – ‘Who’s a good shopper’ – kicking off with its first ever UK ‘pup-up’ in London on 27-28 November. Klarna will open the pup-up following in the footsteps of their other successful pop-ups in London and Manchester. This time showcasing Klarna to London’s loyal dog-loving community in a setting... more
StyloPay selects Tribe Payments for global digital wallet offering
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
StyloPay, specialists in payment solutions and mobile applications, has selected Tribe Payment’s digital wallet technology. Tribe’s digital wallet technology will form part of StyloPay’s cloud-based payments-as-a-service offering that enables banks and card issuers to rapidly scale card programmes and mobile wallets globally.
ABN AMRO Goes Live with Temenos Payments in Hong Kong
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that ABN AMRO has gone live with Temenos Payments in Hong Kong as part of its global strategy to rapidly rollout state-of-the-art payments capabilities in new markets. Temenos Payments provides a single, global platform that enables ABN AMRO to quickly expand and onboard new countries. The bank also significantly improves straight through processing (STP) rates through advanced... more
Wells Fargo Launches Ability to Send Payments on the RTP® Network
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Wells Fargo announced that its corporate customers can now send real-time payments through the RTP® network via an application programming interface (API), enabling the immediate movement of money and expanding the bank’s faster payments offerings. Wells Fargo previously rolled out capabilities for both retail and wholesale customers to receive payments over the RTP network at the end of 2018.
Globitex equips for SCA with Salt Edge Authenticator app
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Open Banking, Payments
Digital finance platform Globitex has partnered with Salt Edge, a leader in offering open banking solutions, to ensure that its EURO Wallet customers benefit from a secure environment for payments.
