Mobile Remittance

25 May 18 @ 13:22

Google has deepened its relationship with PayPal, making it easier to make mobile payments on premium apps and services (like the new YouTube Music, for example). It’s been possible to... read more

17 May 18 @ 11:33

As of late 2017, more countries and regions joined the global real-time payments movement. With the arrival of European Banking Association Real-Time 1 (EBA RT1), SEPA Instant Payments, The Clearing... read more

16 May 18 @ 13:15

BNP Paribas has announced it is set to compete against other money transfer services such as PayPal, Venmo, and Lydia by deploying its new mobile P2P payment service, Paylib.  Other members of the Paylib consortium,... read more

10 May 18 @ 15:48

Ripple has announced aggregated and averaged results from several early xRapid pilots. xRapid is Ripple’s on-demand liquidity solution which uses the digital asset XRP for more efficient cross-border transactions between... read more

09 May 18 @ 16:08

PayPal is the single most used digital wallet in the world. Judged as the worst business idea back when it was founded in 1998 – the era of cheques –... read more

02 May 18 @ 15:53

Blockchain technology is probably one of the most impactful discoveries in the recent history. After all, it has a massive potential to change how we handle online transactions. Despite some... read more

02 May 18 @ 10:26

Financial inclusion is on the rise globally, accelerated by mobile phones and the internet, but gains have been uneven across countries. A new World Bank report on the use of... read more

30 Apr 18 @ 13:32

In the first quarter of 2018, more than $25 billion moved through the Zelle Network, up 15% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), on 85 million transactions, up 14% QoQ. “Zelle is replacing cash and checks for sending... read more

27 Apr 18 @ 10:24

Earlier this year, Google pushed out a redesign to its mobile wallet and changed the name from Android Pay to Google Pay. Now, Google Pay has passed 100 million installs from the... read more

26 Apr 18 @ 09:38

A 27-member Governance Framework Formation Team (GFFT) has spent eight months working on a draft governance framework for a new US Faster Payments Council (FPC). The draft for the new... read more

18 Apr 18 @ 11:46

TransferWise has become the first non-bank company to gain direct access to the UK’s Faster Payments Scheme, which TW says will help it compete with banks on sending money overseas.... read more

18 Apr 18 @ 11:38

Almost half (45%) of corporates see a bank’s B2B payables and cross-border payments offering as being a very or extremely important factor in the bank selection process. In its 2017... read more