Tagged: payments

July 4, 2018 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Yoyo, a mobile payment and marketing platform, has announced a partnership with digital ordering firm Preoday to create a way for retailers to provide pre-ordering services across the UK. Yoyo says it will integrate Preoday’s order ahead solution, enabling customers to pre-order within the Yoyo… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, announced on Tuesday it secured $20 million through its latest funding round, which was led by investment firm MARCorp Financial. Founded in 2015, PaySend describes itself as a UK fintech company and payments disruptor on a mission to change how money… Read More

June 25, 2018 @ 3:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ant Financial, a payments leg that services Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba, is trialing a blockchain-based remittance channel connecting Hong Kong to the Philippines, Coindesk reports. Ant Financial made the announcement today in Hong Kong. According to a roughly-translated press release, the new system will transmit… Read More

June 8, 2018 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Montreuil, France based Lemon Way is the number one online payment solution for crowdfunding platforms in continental Europe. The company received a payment institution license in 2012. According to the Fintech firm, today Lemon Way provides payment solutions to over 200 crowdfunding sites (both debt… Read More

June 6, 2018 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has launched a six week consultation to adopt a common global language on payments known as ISO 20022. The Bank notes that existing standards are fragmented and inconsistent thus complicating the important aspect of the financial industry. By creating a standard,… Read More

June 2, 2018 @ 11:52 am By Xu Gao  |  

International Tuition Payment Platform Easy Transfer Receives Tens of Million Yuan in Series A Financing This week, Easy Transfer announced that it has won tens of millions yuan in Series A financing, which was led by Zhen Fund and followed by IDG Capital. It is… Read More

June 1, 2018 @ 8:26 am By Clayton Moore  |  

When Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) became the first major retailer to accept Bitcoin for payment in 2014, the move raised eyebrows. Four years later, cryptocurrencies still struggle with being seen as “fake” money, exacerbated by boom and bust headlines and regulatory uncertainty. The fastest path to legitimacy?… Read More

May 12, 2018 @ 10:32 am By Xu Gao  |  

PBOC Bans Unauthorized APP to Access Credit Rating System Recently, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, issued a document named, “Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Credit Information Security” (Yinfa [2018] No. 102) (hereinafter referred to as “Document No. 102”), to… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 10:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month after launching its global cryptocurrency API solution, Galileo, a U.S.-based payments processors and program management firm,  announced on Tuesday the launch of its new securities solution assist asset managers, registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, wealth managers and robo-advisors to build world-class financial products that… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

WorldFirst, a Fintech payment platform, is out with a report on UK SMEs. Their ninth quarterly Global Trade Barometer is putting a positive spin on the UK economy as smaller firms position themselves for the post Brexit reality. WorldFirst says more payments are beginning to… Read More

May 8, 2018 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Transferwise: Over $1 billion Deposited into borderless accounts in the product’s first year Fintech unicorn TransferWise has launched batch payments, a new feature that enables both international payroll and corporate payments to suppliers. Simultaneously, Transferwise announced that over $1 billion has been deposited into their… Read More

April 18, 2018 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has approved the first non-bank payment service provider to join the UK payment system settling in central bank money. Described as a milestone event for the BoE in accommodating innovation, this is the first Fintech to gain direct accesss. Transferwise is… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 8:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Galileo, a U.S.-based payments processors and program management firm, announced on Wednesday the launch of its Galileo Cryptocurrency API to bridge the gap between cryptocurrencies and mainstream payments. According to Galileo, the cryptocurrency solution enables customers to seamlessly deposit funds denominated in cryptocurrencies to their accounts,… Read More

March 31, 2018 @ 1:16 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Cross-Border Payment Company iPayLinks Wins Hundreds of Million-Yuan B1 Round of Financing led by Tencent On March 28th, cross-border payment company iPayLinks announced that it had completed, at the beginning of this year, a hundreds of million-yuan B1 round of financing led by Tencent and… Read More

March 20, 2018 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Currencycloud, an international payments platform, has announced the launch of Global Collections. Leveraging multi-currency accounts receivable offering, banks and other payments companies may allow customers to receive payments across borders without the typically exorbitant fees and extensive delays prevalent in payment transfers today. Currencycloud is… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, global payments platform Veem announced it has formed a partnership with BlueVine, a provider of working capital financing to small and medium-sized businesses. The companies reported that the new partnership will allow Veem’s US-based clients to finance their cross-border and domestic payments, and get access… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) is moving things around once again by boosting its ownership in Bitt.com, a Blockchain based payments platform that is based in Barbados. The move was orchestrated by Medici Ventures, Overstock’s Blockchain subsidiary, and it was part of an option that was exercised to invest… Read More

February 28, 2018 @ 4:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

WorldFirst, a global payments provider, has published their Global Trade Tracker that provides a glimpse of UK SME activity during the quarter. According to their numbers, international trading by UK SMEs declined by almost 50% in comparing Q4 of 2017 to the same quarter in… Read More

February 27, 2018 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Accuity, a financial crime compliance, payments and know- your-customer (KYC) platform, has partnered with France-based Fintech Lemon Way, to help flag potentially high-risk customers. Lemon Way has decided to utilize Accuity’s  Firco Compliance Link, a solution which will enable the business to streamline its financial… Read More

February 21, 2018 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

InstaReM, a southeast Asia’s digital cross-border money transfer service provider, has inked a strategic partnership with enterprise Blockchain payment solutions provider, Ripple. According to InstaReM, this partnership will facilitate quick and secure payouts for RippleNet members across Southeast Asia.  InstaReM is a Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments… Read More