Tagged: digital transactions

February 21, 2023 @ 6:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced the launch of OneSpan Notary, which is described as “a next-generation, all-in-one, cloud-connected solution that enables organizations to transform the way notaries and customers complete agreements and notarize documents in a secure and trusted environment.” Unlike… Read More

February 17, 2023 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Siemens is one of the first companies in Germany to issue a digital bond, “in accordance with Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (Gesetz über elektronische Wertpapiere, eWpG).” Worth 60 million, it has “a maturity of one year and is underpinned by a public blockchain.” According to… Read More

February 12, 2023 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bungii, the “fast-growing” platform for big and bulky last-mile delivery, announced it has adopted workforce payments platform Branch in order “to streamline the payments experience for its growing network of drivers. Drivers that sign up with Bungii will onboard with Branch to receive fast, easy… Read More

February 10, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rosbank demonstrated the first digital gold exchange deal in Russia using digital rubles. According to the bank it involved “the exchange of tokenized gold between two parties using innovative distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to ensure the security and continuity of the process.” The project was… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vancity took another step recently in its commitment to climate action. It is reportedly one of the first financial institutions in Canada “to offer its members a way to estimate the CO2 emissions that come from their purchases.” Every Vancity Visa credit cardholder “can track… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Post-COVID-19 holiday shoppers flocked to online sales “in unprecedented numbers in 2022, bringing along with it an increased risk of chargebacks.” Monica Eaton, founder of Chargebacks911, advises eCommerce merchants “to act now and protect themselves from first-party fraud.” As holiday shoppers navigated the post-COVID-19 inflationary… Read More

February 1, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strike, which claims to be the world’s “leading” digital payments platform built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, announced the expansion of its “Send Globally” product to the Philippines. Send Globally now “enables fast, secure, and low-cost money transfers between the U.S. and the Philippines, revolutionizing traditional… Read More

January 31, 2023 @ 1:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) are excited to announce the launch of Binance Card in Brazil. Brazil is among “the top ten markets for Binance globally and becomes the second country in Latin America to have the product, following its release last year in Argentina.”… Read More

January 30, 2023 @ 7:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research defines credit cards as a payment instrument which allows consumers as well as cardholders “to borrow money to pay for products and services, and make deferred payments for their purchases in exchange of monthly interest based on the amount owed.” As noted in… Read More

January 26, 2023 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Girts Straujums, CEO of WeavePay, a UK-based payment platform that helps businesses go borderless. Girts Straujums talked about the issues facing Fintech platforms and how certain customer needs are still not being met. Straujums also shared the main reasons why… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment service provider Clik2pay announced it has developed an “industry-changing” application that allows any Shopify store to seamlessly “offer a direct-from-account payment option to customers.” The first business to use the new app on Shopify is popular eyewear company Ollie Quinn, which successfully “went live… Read More

January 3, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Philippines revealed that it will be making a full shift towards all-digital payments by February 1, 2023. The general public residing in the Southeast Asian country will be using the eSPAYSEC that was introduced in March 2022,… Read More

December 29, 2022 @ 1:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. eCommerce sales “increased by 50.5% from 2019 to 2021,” according to an update shared by Chargebacks911. While eCommerce growth is “predicted to slow to 9.4% year over year in 2022, online sales are expected to cross the $1 trillion… Read More

December 28, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Akash Sinha, CEO & Co-Founder, Cashfree Payments has provided a brief evaluation of the year 2022 and the anticipated trends in 2023, with respect to fintech, digital payments, BaaS, among other sectors. Sinha noted: “India is in a strong position to become the global leader… Read More

December 27, 2022 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

According to a survey, removing disputes from the payments ecosystem has “become the number one concern for sellers, with a tertiary concern of first-party-misuse1.” As noted in an update from Verifi, the question is – how do you stop disputes and still do right by… Read More

December 24, 2022 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Customers who have a Global Account with C6 Bank with a balance in euros have a new feature that “allows them to make international transfers in foreign currency.” The option, which was already available in the Global Dollar Account offered by C6 Bank, serves those… Read More

December 23, 2022 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyre is pleased to announce their recent integration with BNB Chain. This partnership allows their developers building with Wyre the ability to leverage their entire API stack on BNB Chain “as well on-ramping directly into $BUSD and $BNB through all payment methods.” This integration is… Read More

December 21, 2022 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When it comes to payments, Latin America is “diving deeper into alternatives,” according to an update from EBANX. Beyond Borders 2022/2023, a recent study by EBANX, a Brazilian fintech that processes payments for global players in rising markets, “shows that alternative payment methods (APMs) have… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NASDAQ: MQ) brings Apple Pay to its cardholders in Kuwait. Apple Pay is “providing a safer, more secure and private way to pay that helps customers avoid handing their payment card to someone else, touching physical buttons or exchanging cash — and uses the… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashfree Payments, India’s leading payments and API banking solutions company, is enabling eUPP (eLite Unified Payment Platform), a fee payment management system for schools and colleges, “to offer an instant and secure fee payments experience for end users.” Currently, through this partnership, “more than 500… Read More