Tagged: mobile payments

February 6, 2024 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be the largest company in the cryptocurrency industry, has announced its investment in Oobit, a mobile payment application. The Series A investment round has concluded “with $25 million raised for Oobit’s ongoing development, supporting its goal of mainstream cryptocurrency adoption.” This… Read More

August 25, 2023 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

International card networks, including Visa, Mastercard, JCB, and Discover Global Network, are launching a major campaign with Alipay, the digital payment and lifestyle service platform in China, “to further enhance international visitors’ mobile payment and travel experience in the country on the 30-day countdown to… Read More

June 26, 2023 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mypinpad, a global innovator in mobile card payments acceptance and identity authentication software solutions, is pleased to announce a substantial investment round of $13 million led by Crossfin Holdings. This strategic investment will “help expansion and support Mypinpad’s goal of building out its global payments… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XMDS Holding, a European software company active in the field of fintech and faretech, has acquired KUARIO, the Dutch based self-service payment provider to complement its portfolio of mobile payments solutions, playing into the increasing use of self-service kiosks. Since its establishment in 1998, XMDS… Read More

May 17, 2023 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fabrick, a European leader in ‘Open Finance’, announces today the acquisition of Judopay, a UK-based mobile payments company. This deal will allow Fabrick’s Payment Orchestra “to benefit from Judopay’s innovation expertise in digital commerce.” Together, they will “define new models and standards to provide smoother… Read More

February 2, 2023 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

P97 Networks, a connected commerce, mobile payments, and mobility services provider, announced that it is teaming up with Visa to deploy its token technology. This collaboration will “help reduce friction with in-car payments, enable EV charging payments across public networks, and further accelerate mobile payment… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citcon, the “one-stop” service global payment platform in providing in-store, online, and mobile payment solutions, and Klarna, which claims to be the global leader in the generational shift away from credit cards, announced an integration and business partnership which will add Klarna as a featured… Read More

December 30, 2022 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, the Finnish cloud-native issuing and processing pioneer, has announced the launch of a pilot project with social enterprise Welcome.Place, Finnish mobile payments provider for employment benefits Epassi, and digital payments giant Visa in order “to distribute prepaid payment cards to refugees arriving in France.”… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published a new standard designed “to support the evolution of mobile payment acceptance solutions.” PCI Mobile Payments on COTS (MPoC) “builds on the existing PCI Software-based PIN Entry on COTS (SPoC) and PCI Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC)… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) announced the release of Honeywell Smart Pay, a contactless software payment solution “enabling the company’s powerful mobile computers to become secure and compliant payment terminals, accepting contactless mobile payments from anywhere a business sells or delivers goods and services.” Honeywell Smart Pay… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB has launched tap on phone payment technology “for small businesses in a first for a major Australian bank.” The NAB Easy Tap app is described as “an innovative solution that allows small businesses to accept contactless payments when customers tap their card1 or phone… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bizum has arrived at N26. The online bank has announced that all customers with a Spanish IBAN can now “send, receive and request money through the popular mobile payments solution.” In addition, the online bank’s app will “incorporate the Bizum functionality to pay at partner… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of “choice” for large businesses, has teamed up with Cash App (Block, Inc.) to offer Cash App Pay, “a mobile payment method, to Adyen’s U.S. customers.” Businesses working with Adyen will “have access to Cash App Pay… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Synch Payments, the Irish instant mobile payments provider, recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with European Paytech Nexi as its platform and service provider to help bring the Synch proposition to Irish clients. Synch has reportedly obtained authorization from the Competition and… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ComfortDelGro Taxi and Alipay+ recently announced a partnership that enables mobile payments from Malaysia and South Korea, “namely the Touch ‘n Go eWallet and Kakao Pay, to be accepted as cashless payment options in all its Comfort and CityCab taxis.” Users of these mobile wallets… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp, the payments company making crypto accessible to everyone, has reportedly added Apple Pay as a payment option for its US clients in 36 states. As mentioned in the update shared with CI, the mobile payment option, “already available to consumers on Ramp in the… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are the first mobile payment systems to become “interoperable with one another.” Interoperability of said two systems “is based on the specifications of EMPSA (European Mobile Payments System Association).” TWINT and Bluecode interoperability has already “been running since… Read More

June 3, 2022 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), which claims to be an international “leader” in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and Mobily Pay, a “pioneering” mobile wallet powered by Saudi-based telecommunications and digital service provider Mobily, have announced a partnership “to launch MoneyGram’s leading international money… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 4:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MYPINPAD, an international player in mobile-based payments acceptance and digital authentication solutions, has teamed up with CircleBlue Pay (CBP) and OTP Mobile in a move that will “allow thousands of merchants across Hungary to accept card payments via Tap to Phone technology.” Based in Budapest,… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayByCar, Inc., the mobile payments Fintech responsible for offering pay-by-text payments at gas stations across Massachusetts, has confirmed the completion of a $4 million seed round of funding. Anand Raman, President, and co-founder of PayByCar, stated: “Following a string of successes since our 2020 pre-seed… Read More