Bitcoin to Hit Fresh Highs – But Standby for Regulator-Triggered Price Swings
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Bitcoins
The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny. This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations. It comes after the cryptocurrency hit more than $49,700 for the first time in history on Sunday.
27.7% of the UK Now Pay For a Mobile Payment Service, Report Shows
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
57.18 million of us now make digitally-enabled transactions, bringing the total value of digitally enabled payments annually to a staggering $188.3 billion, this is an increase of 19.7% when compared to 2019.
Voyager Digital Raises $100 Million by Closing Private Placement
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Fundraising News, Cryptocurrencies
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Banking Circle Identifies Evidence of Increased Costs for EUR Payments From UK As a Result of Brexit
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Banking Circle, the cross border payments expert, has identified an issue affecting some financial institutions handling cross border transactions from the UK to the EU. It seems Brexit has caused a number of EU banks to increase their fees for receipt of SEPA local payments in EUR from GB IBANs.
Entrust Partners with Netcetera to Fight Online Payment Fraud
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Digital Identity, Securities Services, Payments
Entrust, a leading provider of trusted identities, payments and data protection, has announced a partnership with Netcetera, a leading 3 Domain Secure (3DS) provider, to help financial institutions combat fraud associated with card-not-present (CNP) transactions.
Worldline and Klarna Expand Payment Offering Across Europe
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Klarna, the leading global payments and shopping service, today announces a strategic collaboration with Ingenico (part of Worldline, the European leader in the payment and transactional services industry, since late 2020) to make Klarna’s online payment solutions accessible to even more European merchants.
OpenWay Named “Best-in-Class” Vendor of Payment Processing Platforms
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
OpenWay was recognized as the highest-ranked vendor of payment processing platforms in the global market by Aite, a global research and advisory group.
CoinDCX Announces Cosmex - New Crypto-to-Crypto Trading Platform for Global Audience
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Keeping up with the upbeat momentum in the global crypto industry, CoinDCX is pleased to announce its latest crypto-to-crypto (C2C) product offering, Cosmex. Cosmex is CoinDCX’s global product that reimagines how crypto trading works and gives an entirely new, powerful, and simple model to crypto trading.
Pelican Partners with SWIFT to Streamline Global Low Value Payments
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Pelican today announced its support for SWIFT as it develops a new service for low value cross-border payments. This new service will enable banks to provide fast, easy, predictable, and frictionless cross-border payments for consumers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The service is expected to be ready by end of March 2021.
Mastercard and CleverCards to Expand Digital Card Issuance Across Europe
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Mastercard and CleverCards have signed a strategic partnership to expand the usage of digital cards across Europe. The deal comes as CleverCards also joins Mastercard’s Fintech Express programme, propelling CleverCards to simplify the payments value chain across Europe to enable anyone, anywhere, anytime to be paid instantly by businesses.
Paysend to Waive Money Transfer Fees in Celebration of Chinese New Year
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
To celebrate Chinese New Year, global end-to-end payments provider Paysend has announced that the company is waiving international money transfers fees for funds sent to recipients in China through March 31, 2021.
Adyen Publishes H2 2020 Financial Results
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Adyen published the latest earnings results, indicating another strong half-year for the global payments fintech. Results reflect business resilience and continued profitable growth in the second half of 2020, as surging volumes in online retail and digital goods verticals compensated for declining travel volumes. H2 2020 Figures
TransferGo Selects Thought Machine to Drive Global Expansion
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today announces a partnership with Thought Machine, the cloud native core banking technology company, to propel its ongoing product innovation and drive global expansion into new markets. By taking advantage of Thought Machine’s next generation cloud native core banking platform Vault, TransferGo will focus on enhancing its customer experience through better, more advanced... more
Copper Integrates Avalanche to Bolster Institutional-Grade Storage and Trading Security for AVAX
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
Copper.co, the London-based digital asset infrastructure provider, completed integration with Avalanche, an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem.
Grupo Xcaret Integrates Worldline’s Chatbot Solution to Enhance Customer Experience
- 4 years 10 months ago
- E-Commerce, Payments
Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and number 4 worldwide, today announced it has developed and launched a chatbot for Mexico’s eco-friendly theme park Grupo Xcaret, powering conversational commerce. The chatbot is now live, allowing visitors to chat, research and pay through the messaging bot, while reducing re-directs to mobile websites, which cause significant friction and empty shopping carts.
