Tagged: payments

January 4, 2022 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zen.com, a licensed electronic money institution regulated by the Central Bank of Lithuania (but based in Poland), has announced fiat to digital asset conversions, along with the transfer of fiat to any digital wallet accepting BTC, ETH, or USDT (ERC-20). Zen states there are more… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, a company focused on payments and card issuance for businesses, notes that as they wrapped up 2021, they decided to take a look back at some of the key milestones.. 2021 was a year of many ‘firsts’ for Nium, the company wrote in a… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Modulr, which supports a new digital payment account for businesses and is specifically building services for companies needing a faster, easier and more reliable way to move money, notes that when they analyzed the results from their Digital Now survey (looking at consumer “attitudes… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ChargeBee notes that for the year it had to follow, 2021 had “a relatively low benchmark to beat in terms of popularity.” ChargeBee, a San Francisco-based financial services firm that’s helping subscription-based businesses stay “agile and adapt their revenue operations workflows to… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder & CEO at Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed Fintech firm that creates software to enable free and instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments, and solutions for businesses to handle online and in-store payments, notes that when him and Maijid and started Chipper Cash in 2018,… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 5:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at WorldRemit, a UK-based digital cross-border payments firm, has shared ways to send money to people who don’t have a bank account. WorldRemit writes in a blog post that for many of us, having a bank account is “an everyday thing.” And yet,… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ruben Salazar Genovez, Global Head of Visa Direct, notes that when he was growing up in El Salvador during the 1980s, people living in “extreme” poverty were defined as those “who spend their daily purchasing power on food and still go to sleep hungry.” Now,… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It was an eventful week for the Java Ecosystem and the Open Source communities: on December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability was found in the widely-used Java Logging framework Log4j (version 2). The team at payments Fintech Adyen has shared details on some of the… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 4:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On its face (or at surface level), 2021 may not have seemed like the year cryptocurrency “got serious,” according to an end-of-year update from Mastercard (NYSE: MA). The team at Mastercard noted that this year, we had Elon Musk sending Dogecoin (a virtual currency initially… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Almond Finance, a blockchain-based funds transfer service, has raised $2 million in a seed round led by Morningside Group. Almond Finance, based in both Boston and Singapore, is targeting the B2B sector to connect financial institutions globally. Almond states that it offers a suite of… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 12:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eli Mydlarz, Head of Engineering at Pakistani Fintech SadaPay, has noted that his firm likes to get feedback as fast and early as possible, so they can’t depend on end-to-end testing while creating financial software applications. Eli wrote in a blog post, earlier this month,… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to ensure the safety and security of the payment system, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expanded the tokenization facility from an earlier version/framework to Card on File Tokenization (COFT). Virtual payments Fintech Paytm has now introduced a tokenization solution for online… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an international provider of real-time virtual payment software and solutions, has announced that it is extending its partnership with PayPoint, the provider of innovative tech and payment services, in order to “drive modernization of its payments business.” PayPoint, a long-standing customer,… Read More

December 24, 2021 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Local tech startup Bloom has unveiled a new collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) to provide extra spending rewards for Visa card users residing in Hong Kong. As noted in an update shared with CI, the tie-up should help with accelerating Visa’s journey in connecting with… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taptap Send, a community-focused cross-border financial platform, has announced a $65M Series B round led by Spark Capital, along with contributions from Unbound and previous leads Reid Hoffman and Canaan Partners, along with Slow Ventures, Breyer Capital, Wamda Capital, Flourish Ventures, and additional investors from… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced it has finalized the acquisition of Currencycloud, an international platform that enables banking institutions and Fintech firms to offer various foreign exchange solutions for cross-border transactions. The acquisition will aim to empower Visa and Currencycloud customers and partners to offer a… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nationwide clients had been left panicking after a recent Faster Payments outage at the building society only a few days before Christmas. After problems being reported on Tuesday (December 22, 2021), Nationwide confirmed that the “technical issue” had now been resolved and that “all delayed… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The month of December is always an “exciting month” for Razorpay, the company wrote in a blog post dated December 20, 2021. Razorpay added that it has celebrated its 7th year since launch. The firm reveals that what started off as an idea between Shashank… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 4:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has chimed in on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) inquiry into big tech and payments. In a letter dated December 21, 2021, Lina Khan, Chair of the FTC said that big tech providing financial services “demand close scrutiny.” In… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PCI Pal (LON: PCIP), the international provider of secure payment solutions, is working with Talkdesk, the global customer experience solution provider for “customer-obsessed” firms, in order to offer clients with innovative customer service and security capabilities. The firms’ growing customer list reportedly includes Air Business,… Read More