Mastercard Recovery Insights: E-commerce a Covid Lifeline for Retailers with Additional $900 Billion Spent Online Globally
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Covid-19, E-Commerce, e-Payments
As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online. According to Mastercard’s latest Recovery Insights report, this amounted to an additional $900 billion being spent in retail online around the world in 2020. Put another way: in 2020, e-commerce made up roughly £1.50 out of every £5 spent on retail, up from about £1 out of every £5 spent in 2019.1
Worldline Accelerates the Digital Transformation of Commerce with its New AXIUM Platform
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Platform Technology, Payments
Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transactional services, accelerates the digital transformation of commerce with its new AXIUM platform, comprising innovative Android POS and an unrivalled suite of payment and business services. Worldline, through its Ingenico brand, today announces the launch of its POS AXIUM platform, the latest development in Ingenico’s evolution as an ecosystem enabler and the most trusted technology... more
CoinShares Announces Strategic Collaboration with 3iQ with Launch of the 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Bitcoins
CoinShares International Limited, (Nasdaq First North Growth Market: CS) ("CoinShares" or the "Group" or the “Company”) today announced a strategic collaboration with 3iQ Corp (“3iQ”), commencing with the launch of the 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF (the “ETF”). As part of this collaboration, CoinShares also disclosed a strategic investment in 3iQ, which further aligns the objectives of the two firms.(1)
Mastercard Credit Cardholders Now Enjoy SBI Card Pay Feature
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
SBI Card Pay, a payment feature based on Host Card Emulation (HCE) technology, which allows customers to create virtual version of their physical SBI Credit Card on their mobile phones and then tap their phone at Near-Field-Communication (NFC) enabled Point of Sale terminals (POS) to make payments at merchants, is now available on Mastercard platform.
GreenBond Meter and Sumsub Partner to Save Native Forests by Securing Cryptocurrency Purchases
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
GreenBond Meter, an eco-friendly initiative that allows people to save native forests with the purchase of cryptocurrency, is partnering with Sumsub for KYC, KYB, crypto monitoring, and video verification. The companies are combining efforts to deliver easy, people-friendly, and safe customer verification for those who value environmental protection and lowering their carbon footprint.
EQUOS Expands Stablecoin Offering with Launch of Tether
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Cryptocurrencies
EQUOS, Diginex’s [Nasdaq:EQOS] institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange, has expanded its stablecoin offering by listing Tether (USDT), providing an onramp into the EQUOS ecosystem for traders who use USDT as a base currency. Tether is well-established as the largest and most widely used stablecoin, and is currently ranked fourth largest cryptocurrency, by market capitalization. However, it has also been subject to negative media coverage... more
IXOPAY Partners with Vyne
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments
The industry leading payment orchestration platform, IXOPAY has partnered with Vyne, the go-to payment provider for Open Banking. The strategic partnership will see IXOPAY and Vyne provide clients with a payment solution that enables them to connect to the most relevant payment methods for the markets they sell in. Clients will have access to “direct from account” payments from across Europe with just one connection.
MVIS and CryptoCompare Licensed the MVIS CryptoCompare Ethereum VWAP Close Index to VanEck
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
MV Index Solutions GmbH (MVIS®) in partnership with
Blockchain Market Size in Banking and Financial Institutions To Grow 15X To $22 Billion By 2026
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Banking
Data presented by cryptocurrency tradi
Fingerprints and Fime Minimize Time to Market for Biometric Payment Cards with Mastercard® approvalof T-Shape 2 sensor module
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) and Fime have collaborated to achieve compliance with Mastercard’s Reference Specifications for Fingerprints’ latest T-Shape® sensor module and software platform for biometric payment cards. Proactively securing this approval brings widespread deployments even closer as it simplifies the approval process for card manufacturers. Card manufacturers of all sizes can now benefit from saving time and money when... more
Nets Group Brings Cryptocurrencies to Shop Tills in Austria
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Cryptocurrencies
Nets Group, a leading European payment services provider, together with Salamantex, Austrian specialist for the development of software solutions for cryptocurrency payments, is bringing acceptance of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple to in-store points-of-sale in Austria. The partnership will also help prepare for the introduction of future digital currencies such as the e-Euro.
Mobile Technology: The Gateway to Improving Credit Collections And Customer Engagement
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments
A new survey from digital payments expert, PayPoint, confirms that today’s consumers are ready and waiting for immediate, transparent and flexible payment tools to help them manage their financial commitments. Email and SMS as a means of communication far outweigh the traditional ‘letter in the post’ or a phone call – and importantly, a regular, timely digital nudge from finance providers would be welcomed by the majority to ensure they keep on... more
Goode Intelligence Research Reveals That Global Biometric Payments to The Value of $5.765 Trillion Will be Made Annually by 2026
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Goode Intelligence’s (www.goodeintelligence.com) latest research, Biometrics for Payments; Market and Technology Analysis, Adoption Strategies and Forecasts 2021-2026 – 3rd Edition, reveals that biometrics is now a must-have technology to secure payments across all payment channels – not just mobile – enabling convenient, secure and touchless payments in both physical and digital payment channels. The impact from the Covid-19 pandemic on the... more
UK Businesses Prepared to Spend a Third of Their Annual Budget on a Payments Solution But Confused by Options
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Tug, a leading digital performance marketing agency, today announced new research which reveals UK businesses are prepared to spend a third (35%) of their annual budget on a payments solution in 2021, but are unsure or confused by the different options available online.
Accelerex Offers Ghanaian Customers More Digital Payment Options
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Leading pan-African fintech company, Accelerex Ghana (www.GlobalAccelerex.com.gh), has hit a new milestone, after being granted an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence from the Bank of Ghana (BoG), under the Payment Systems and Services Act, 2019 (Act 987). This makes Accelerex Ghana the only fintech organization currently within the enhanced PSP category that provides physical e-payment devices, merchant acquiring, and agency banking... more
