
PayPal: pathfinder in mobile payments and setting direction for the industry
PayPal has been in the news recently for launching and enhancing services that are changing the way we pay for goods – and manage our money. Read more…
PayPal has been in the news recently for launching and enhancing services that are changing the way we pay for goods – and manage our money. Read more…
Contactless payments and mobile payments in general have been on a sustained growth curve for the last few years. Read more…
Three Indonesian digital fintech firms are working with Facebook to apply for regulatory approval to launch mobile payments in the country. Read more…
Surveying 4,837 Chinese travelers and 547 overseas merchants, report finds that Singapore leads in mobile payment usage among Chinese tourists. Read more…
LINE Pay Taiwan forms “Cross-Border Mobile Payment Alliance” allowing people from Japan, Korea and Thailand to use mobile payment services in Taiwan. Read more…
Home-furnishing retailer Pricerite provides a wide range of mobile payment methods and is now the first local retail chain to accept cryptocurrencies. Read more…
WhatsApp is in talks with multiple Indonesian digital payment firms to offer their mobile transaction services, to tap the fast growing e-commerce sector. Read more…
There seems to be a lot of activity in the world of payments. Sadly, not all of it is encouraging and some of it seems more than a little confusing. Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese chat app operator Line Corp will set up a bank with Mizuho Financial Group and also partner China’s Tencent to offer mobile payment services – plans which saw its stock rise Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings and Japanese chat app operator Line Corp will tie up to offer mobile payment services for small Japanese retailers aiming to attract business from Chinese tourists, the Nikkei business daily Read more…
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lowering the fees migrant workers pay to send money home could result in $1 billion more being spent on education in developing countries, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Financial Read more…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday laid out guidelines that would allow for seamless payments between different mobile wallets, in a move that could further boost the use of digital payments Read more…
The Singtel Group has launched its planned cross-border mobile payment alliance with Thai cellco AIS and Kasikornbank, Thailand’s largest digital bank. Under the alliance, branded ‘Via’, Singtel and AIS will offer QR code-based mobile payments Read more…
JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) – For Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, Southeast Asian domestic helpers in Hong Kong may prove key to their global ambitions in financial services. Both companies recently launched money-transfer services that Read more…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Google has tweaked the privacy policy of its Indian digital payments mobile application, days after local rival Paytm complained that the US tech giant’s platform allowed disclosure of customer data for Read more…
SoftBank, Synchronoss Technologies and TBCASoft have partnered on a proof of concept (PoC) for a new cross-carrier mobile payments service based on the RCS global messaging standard and TBCASoft’s cross-carrier blockchain platform. Earlier this year, Read more…
HANOI (Reuters) – Grab announced on Tuesday its partnership with Vietnam’s Moca Technology and Service company (Moca) for a mobile payment service in Vietnam, as the ride-hailing firm pushes to cement its position in the Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google said on Tuesday it is partnering with a handful of Indian banks to bring quick loans to the masses, as it aims to woo tens of millions of new internet Read more…
NEW YORK/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway invested 25 billion rupees ($356 million) in the Indian company behind digital payments firm Paytm, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal, in a foray by Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said Facebook-owned WhatsApp had pledged on Tuesday to develop tools that would combat fake messages, to help the country crack down on people whipping up public anger through mass message Read more…
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