Agreement between SIA and Unicocampania to enable contactless payments on public transport in Naples and at regional level
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Payments
The world of public transport is preparing to face a new challenge. Thanks to the agreement signed between SIA and the Unicocampania Consortium, trials will start in the second half of 2020 in Naples, Salerno, Avellino and their respective provinces for payment of tickets for local public transport using contactless credit and debit cards.
JGOO reveals many UK retailers are failing in China - new focus needed
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Payments
JGOO, the next generation mobile payments platform, says many UK retailers are failing to break into the Chinese market because they don’t acknowledge its huge scale and localise their propositions accordingly. Further, it says that many companies don’t understand the country’s strict censorship arrangements or adapt to the unique shopping habits of Chinese consumers.
ACD and Alchemy Launches ACD Cryptocurrency Tokens Across Asia
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Payments, Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies
Alchemy Global Payment Solutions Limited ("Alchemy"), a global cryptocurrency payment pioneer that powers businesses with Asia's first hybrid cryptocurrency and fiat payment solutions ("Hybrid Payment Solution"), has partnered with Tokyo-based ACD Inc. (a Joint-Venture Group Company of ANA Holdings, TSE:9202) ("ACD"), a company that provides cross-border e-commerce and global air cargo delivery, logistic services in Japan, to enable ACD tokens... more
Cardpay Extends Reach into Mexican eCommerce Market
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Cardpay – global fintech provider and fast-growing payment processor is expanding into the eCommerce market of Mexico. Providing its payment solution to millions of unbanked customers and eCommerce businesses alike. Through Cardpay, businesses can take payments using local payment methods commonly accepted by popular retailers like Walmart, 7eleven, Superama and Extra.
Ripple makes final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Investment, Payments
MoneyGram, a global provider of innovative money transfer services, today announced that Ripple, a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments, has made the final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity pursuant to Ripple's original $50 million equity investment commitment made earl
Judopay reveals Brits would rather queue up in store on Black Friday than pay on their mobile.
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Black Friday is just around the corner with even more UK bargain hunters expected to pounce on big discounts this year. But new research from Judopay shows that not all of these sales will happen online or on mobile, with over a quarter of Brits admitting that they’d rather queue in store than make a purchase on their mobile as it’s ‘too stressful’.
Klarna partners with a new merchant every 8 minutes in 2019
- 5 years 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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
