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US Digital Payments Adoption Study

27 Jul 18 @ 11:45

Early Warning Services, the network operator behind Zelle, has published the results of its first Digital Payments Adoption Study. The aim is to track consumer adoption, use, and attitudes toward digital payments,... read more

Snapchat kills P2P payment service Snapcash

26 Jul 18 @ 15:05

Snapchap has announced that it will cease Snapcash, its mobile P2P payments app for Snapchat, on August 30. Snap launched Snapcash in late 2014 via a partnership with Square, but it... read more

Will WhatsApp be Africa’s biggest payments a platform?

02 Jul 18 @ 16:37

The ambitions of WhatsApp have been viewed as something of a mystery, even as its reach as a messaging service and as the social media platform of choice for Africans has grown... read more

Ant Financial fights back from MoneyGram disappointment with rival blockchain remittance service

25 Jun 18 @ 16:42

After the disappointment of US regulators blocking its purchase of MoneyGram, Ant Financial has taken a step towards dramatically lowering the cost of remitting money overseas in a move that... read more

SWIFT extends gpi to all banks for cross border payments

25 Jun 18 @ 15:49

The SWIFT Community is to universally adopt the gpi service, in a move which will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT’s global network use the global payments innovation service (gpi)... read more

Square receives cryptocurrency BitLicense for Cash App

19 Jun 18 @ 11:59

Square has recieved the go-ahead from regulators allowing New Yorkers to trade cryptocurrency on the its rapidly growing Cash app. While Square launched crypto trading through its payments app in... read more

WhatsApp pay hits a million as Indian users test payments feature

18 Jun 18 @ 16:21

WhatsApp is lready the largest messaging app in the India with over 200 million active monthly users, WhatsApp has over the past few months quietly rolled out its payments feature (WhatsApp... read more

Ripple and Swift in arm wrestle over cross-border payments supremacy

14 Jun 18 @ 11:16

It would appear that a new rivalry is raging that looks set to decide how cross-border payments are handled for decades to come. It is a contest that encapsulates much... read more

New data highlights differences in use of P2P mobile payment apps

14 Jun 18 @ 10:54

Use of P2P mobile payment apps, such as PayPal and Venmo, vary significantly by generation, according to a new survey from The Manifest. 29% of millennial’s (18 to 34 years old)... read more

Mastercard Send to launch real-time payments in the UK

07 Jun 18 @ 10:10

Mastercard says it will launch Mastercard Send in the UK. Mastercard Send is a payment service that allows financial institutions, FinTechs, digital customers and other businesses to send real-time payments... read more

OROBO and OpenWay to power cross-border money transfers

07 Jun 18 @ 09:57

OROBO, the newly-launched money transfer platform from Saana Holdings, is opening up cross- border money transfers and bill-payments into Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Serria-Leone and supporting financial inclusion in West Africa.... read more

TransferWise teams with French bank Groupe BPCE

05 Jun 18 @ 09:11

TransferWise has teamed up with Groupe BPCE, in a deal that will give the money-transfer startup access to the banking group’s 15 million retail customers, the companies announced at Money... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more