Tagged: payments

June 3, 2019 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced at Money2020 Europe in Amsterdam, TransferMate is now offering an API, allowing software partners and business customers access to its globally regulated payments technology through direct integration. TransferMate says it can now enable same day payments across 162 countries and 134 currencies. The TransferMate… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments and loyalty Fintech Yoyo has announced that David Yates, former president of New Payment Platforms at Mastercard and now a senior advisor to Mastercard, has taken on the role of chairman of the company. Yoyo combines payment, loyalty and marketing to increase customer lifetime… Read More

June 2, 2019 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Frente Corretora de Câmbio, a Brazilian money transfer and remittance platform, wants to become the “Transferwise of Brazi” by leveraging Ripple to provide low-cost transfers. According to a report in Exame, Frente is the 15th largest currency brokerage in the country. Frente wants to be in… Read More

May 29, 2019 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

TransferMate, a cross-border B2B payments providers, has secured its first regulatory approval in Asia with a payments license in Singapore. TransferMate claims to hold one of the largest portfolios of payments licenses in the world. This includes all 50 US states plus territories, to support… Read More

May 21, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Alipay announced on Tuesday that fintech company ininal has become its first partner in Turkey. According to Alipay, ininal is a new-general payment platform and a subsidiary of Multinet Up. The partnership will allow Alipay to be available for Chinese mainland visitor sat bricks-and-mortar stores… Read More

May 14, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Paysend Group, an FCA licensed e-Money institution, is planning to issue a stablecoin in June. Paysend is using Stellar to provide the crypto that will allow its users to send instant global payments without the traditional cross-border fees. Paysend notes that Stellar was designed expressly… Read More

May 6, 2019 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Thunes (previously DBA as TransferTo), a cross-border payments Fintech, has completed a $10 million Series A financing led by GGV Capital.  Thunes is a Licensed Payments Service Provider in the UK. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes connects mobile wallet operators, corporates, merchants, money transfer operators, payment… Read More

May 3, 2019 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, announced earlier this week it was launching its services in Sri Lanka. Those who are interested in money transfers to Sri Lanka you can send funds from Europe, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, Mexico and other countries available on… Read More

April 30, 2019 @ 3:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global payment technology provider Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP; LSE: WPY) announced on Tuesday the launch of FraudSight, which is a new solution designed to prevent fraud and optimize approval rates potentially boosting revenue across all channels. According to Worldpay, FraudSight makes transaction validity decisions for merchants of… Read More

April 15, 2019 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Corporate Traveller, a UK-based specialist provider of business travel management services to SME companies, announced on Monday it has teamed up with global blockchain payment provider BitPay to allow cryptocurrency payments on its platform. Corporate Traveller reported that it may now accept bitcoin and bitcoin… Read More

April 10, 2019 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

J.P. Morgan announced earlier this week it is advancing its real-time payments offering by launching SEPA Instant in Europe. The banking group reported that with this latest offering it is continuing on its mission to drive efficiency and add critical value to our clients’ business…. Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 6:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital money transfer Fintech Azimo has secured a license from the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank) to operate its services in the Netherlands, according to a release from the firm. Azimo said its headquarters will remain in London and its engineering and operations in… Read More

April 7, 2019 @ 8:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An on-the-ground investigation by London news outlet Financial Times has shown that several payment referral partnerships maintained by German payments giant Wirecard in the Philippines are either insubstantial or dubious. On Friday, it was revealed that a top accounting executive with the firm had departed…. Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

CABIM Ltd, the parent company of Crown Agents Bank has acquired Segovia, a US-based payments firm. In a release, Crown Agents Bank said the purchase will enable it to extend its payment network, including mobile money, and integrate Segovia’s payments infrastructure with Crown Agents Bank’s… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder and former chief executive mobile payment Fintech Jumio with defrauding investors. The former CEO of Jumio, Daniel Mattes, has agreed to pay more than $17 million to settle the charges. Mattes is also a “business… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 2:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global payment technology provider Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP; LSE: WPY) announced on Wednesday it is set to expand its services into Australasian later this year, thanks to two major investments. The first step is to open two sales offices in Australia and the second is the expansion of its… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pelican, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, announced on Wednesday the further extension of its API Interoperability solution, with expanded support for the six popular Open Banking API standards, now including the UK’s OBWG, France’s STET… Read More

March 22, 2019 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Marqeta has just raised $250 million in a Series E funding round that reportedly valued the firm at around $2 billion. It was reported that hedge-fund firm Coatue Management LLC led the investment round. Omri Dahan,  Chief Revenue Officer of Marqeta, recently told… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 1:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

JP Morgan’s Global Head of eCommerce Solutions, Ron Karpovich, has told CNBC that there is, “more partnership instead of competition,” in payments and that, “Ultimately behind the scenes, (payments disruptors) are going to have to use a bank to move funds.” He also seemed to dismiss… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 6:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based Fintech InstaReM has announced a partnership with First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions. The new partnership will combine InstaReM’s digital payments and remittance solution with First Data’s debit processing solution. InstaReM said that by leveraging First Data’s… Read More