Tagged: mobile wallets

August 19, 2026 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Total payment volumes in the UK reached 49.7 billion in 2025, marking a 2% year-on-year rise, according to data from UK Finance. This figure reflects a maturing digital payments landscape in which consumers drove the majority of activity—41.6 billion transactions—while businesses, government bodies and not-for-profit… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has launched the Alchemy Pay fiat-crypto on-ramp solution on its platform. Alchemy Pay’s payment on-ramp “supports fiat deposits with Visa and MasterCard, as well as numerous popular fiat mobile wallets in emerging markets.” The ramp integration “makes it easy for the public to access… Read More

January 27, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alviere, the embedded finance platform provider, is pleased to announce that Grupo Coppel, Mexico’s largest non-food retailer, has chosen Alviere “to enable the launch of Coppel Access, a mobile wallet that will provide millions of unbanked and underbanked consumers in the U.S. with easy access… 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

January 5, 2023 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PPRO, which claims to be the leading provider of digital payments infrastructure, has announced that it has expanded its coverage of the Portuguese market by integrating MB WAY, Portugal’s leading mobile wallet provider, onto its platform. This development comes “as a result of PPRO’s long-standing… 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

April 4, 2022 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This latest version of 1inch‘s mobile wallet will enable Android users “to take advantage of convenient token swaps at the most competitive rates, as well as other functionality.” The 1inch Wallet for iOS, launched last April, “turned out to be absolutely successful with users, and… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 3:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Paysend, a provider of card-to-card and international payments services, today announced the expansion of its cross-border money transfer services to Colombia with MOVii, a mobile wallet service in Colombia. Using global payments infrastructure company Terrapay, Paysend will enable U.S. and European customers to send money via MOVii mobile… Read More

August 30, 2021 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GCash, a leading mobile wallet provider in the Philippines, reports steady growth as it saw a significant rise in its number of users from 20 million in January 2020 to 46 million in June 2021, according to a release. The GCash app also had more… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Jessica DiRubio, the Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Partnerships at AppBrilliance, an Austin-based payments technology firm. AppBrilliance aims to power and support true, real-time non-custodial Open Payments and Banking services in the United States. The company enables businesses to… Read More

June 5, 2021 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AppGallery, a leading app marketplace, has introduced near-field communication (NFC) payments in European markets, after forming a partnership with Stocard, a leading mobile wallet provider. After teaming up with AppGallery, Stocard worked closely with Huawei to integrate Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core capabilities within its… Read More

May 9, 2021 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese banking institutions have introduced central bank digital currency (CBDC) hardware prototypes for several different use cases. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the nation’s central bank, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have introduced prototype hardware devices that aim to offer support… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 8:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Xoom, PayPal’s international money transfer service, announced on Tuesday it may now send secure and convenient money transfers directly to mobile wallets in markets across Africa with a focus on the underbanked segment. Xoom reported that the new service expands the company’s offering to… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Loopring, which allows anyone to create “high-throughput,” non-custodial, orderbook-based exchanges on Ethereum by leveraging Zero-Knowledge Proofs or ZKPs (for financial privacy), have introduced a beta version of the Loopring Wallet – which is notably the first Ethereum smart wallet with built-in zkRollup… Read More

May 19, 2020 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to significant changes in consumer behavior globally as many people throughout the world are now working remotely from home. Analysts are now questioning whether the behavioral changes are actually permanent or fundamental shifts that will last even after the Coronavirus… Read More

September 13, 2018 @ 10:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced on Thursday it is launching mobile wallets specifically for business cardholders. The banking group reported that starting this September, mobile wallets will begin to make its commercial clients’ lives easier through faster, more secure and more efficient business purchases… Read More