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Category: Mobile payments


Mobile payments, Paytech

FinTech Futures Jobs: Three ways generative AI is being used in financial services

June 2, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

After launching in November 2022, ChatGPT had gained 100 million users by January of this year, making it the fastest growing and most speedily adopted app yet—it took Instagram more than two years to reach the same kind of numbers, […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Irish payments start-up NomuPay lands $53.6m in funding

May 31, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

Founded in 2021 following the acquisition of assets from Wirecard, including its licences in Turkey and Asia Pacific, NomuPay operates a unified payments platform that enables cross-border payment acceptance and payout disbursements through a single API. The company says it […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Moment Launches to Accelerate Digital Payments Adoption and Financial Inclusion in Africa

May 30, 2023

Via: The Fintech Times

Moment offers expanded payment infrastructure for businesses across Africa to help them collect and make payments easier, quicker, and more affordable in any manner that their buyers or suppliers prefer. Moment will also offer additional options for consumers to spend […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Consumers, businesses gravitate to faster, mobile payments

May 26, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

The research results gave the Fed an opportunity to plug the arrival of its new FedNow faster payments system, which is expected to launch services publicly in July. That real-time payments system from the central bank has been in development […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Draft bill suggests separating legislation on payment stablecoins and digital asset markets

April 24, 2023

Via: Cointelegraph

Republican lawmakers with the United States House Financial Services Committee have released a draft of a bill focused on payment stablecoins rather than overseeing other aspects of digital asset markets. A senior Republican committee staffer involved in drafting the legislation […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

US Century Bank selects Pidgin for real-time payments

April 18, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

Pidgin says its platform eliminates the need to use a holding account from a third-party provider or virtual wallet, allowing payments to be “routed directly” from one financial institution to another, thereby ensuring a “more secure” transaction. The partnership will […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Amazon paytech added to Whole Foods stores

April 11, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Amazon’s frictionless checkout technology is now available in more Whole Foods locations in Colorado’s capital city. The stores, located throughout the Denver area, including the communities of Belmar, Cherry Creek, Colfax, Colorado Boulevard, Governor’s Ranch, Highlands Ranch, Ideal Market Denver, […]


Blockchain, Crypto, Mobile payments, Paytech

Bitcoin vs. PayPal: Which is the better payment option?

March 28, 2023

Via: Fintech News

In the online casino industry, online casinos accepting PayPal became the most sought-after, with popularity fueled by the UK Gambling Commission’s announcement to ban the use of credit cards to gamble in Great Britain. Currently, Bitcoin and PayPal are two […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Ingenico acquires Phos and extends merchant payment acceptance

March 28, 2023

Via: ThePaypers

Paytech Ingenico has announced the acquisition of software-based POS solutions provider Phos, extending its offering for merchant payment acceptance via smartphone. As per the information detailed in the press release, the strategic purchase of Phos marks an additional step in […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Take the wheel: the future of payments in driverless cars

March 15, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

It’s not until 2030 at least that mass adoption of driverless cars is widely expected. Despite the long wait, once the market matures, it is set to be massive. According to Renub Research, the US autonomous vehicles market will be […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Nationwide Building Society in retail payments tech revamp with Form3 and Accenture

March 7, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

Nationwide – the world’s largest building society – is an investor in Form3, and also announced a cloud-based payments project with the paytech firm in mid-2021. Through a series of phases, which launched in 2022, Nationwide will migrate all types […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Bybit suspends USD bank transfers amid service outages

March 6, 2023

Via: Blockchain News

Bybit, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is temporarily suspending United States dollar (USD) deposits via bank transfers in response to “service outages from a partner.” According to a blog post from March 4, USD deposits via wire […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Restores Access to User Funds

March 3, 2023

Via: Bitcoin.com

Users who have deposited funds to Bitzlato can now start to withdraw their coins, the recently seized crypto exchange said in a Telegram message. The announcement comes after a period of over a month during which the trading platform was […]


Mobile payments, Paytech, Retail

Binance partners Ingenico to support global crypto adoption

February 24, 2023

Via: ThePaypers

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has partnered with France-based paytech Ingenico to enable in-store payments in France. The partnership includes the launc of a pilot programme that accepts more than 50 cryptocurrencies and will be available only on Ingenico Axium payment terminals […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Stripe unveils Tap to Pay for Android devices

February 23, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

Stripe’s Tap to Pay for Android is now available in beta for businesses in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. It supports transactions made with mobile payments such as Google Pay, as well as Mastercard, Visa […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Computop enables smartphones as cards terminals with its PhonePOS

February 14, 2023

Via: ThePaypers

Payment service provider Computop has enabled its retail customers to use their smartphones at the POS to accept contactless payments. With the new Computop PhonePOS solution, using a secure PIN entry will allow retailers to accept payments over GBP 50 […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Thrive Capital believed to be leading new multibillion-dollar investment in Stripe

January 31, 2023

Via: TechCrunch

Thrive Capital has reportedly committed $1 billion in fresh capital to payments giant Stripe as part of a new investment in the works that would value the fintech company at between $55 billion and $60 billion. TechCrunch reported last week […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Indian government set to spend $320m to boost adoption of digital payments

January 19, 2023

Via: FinTech Futures

Banks will be financially incentivised to promote point-of-sale (POS) and e-commerce transactions using RuPay debit cards and the BHIM payments app through to the end of the financial year 2022-23, with ₹2,600 crore ($318.4 million) earmarked for the scheme. BHIM […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

Ingenico partners Fujitsu Frontech for a biometric payment solution

January 18, 2023

Via: ThePaypers

France-based paytech Ingenico has partnered Fujitsu Frontech North America to launch a biometric payment solution based on palm vein identification. Through this partnership, merchants will be able to improve the check-out experience of their customers while minimising fraud risks. Fujitsu’s […]


Mobile payments, Paytech

German fintech ryd partners with Aral for mobile payments

January 17, 2023

Via: ThePaypers

Germany-based fintech company ryd, the operator of a B2C network for petrol station mobile payment has announced partnering with Aral to enable mobile payments at around 1800 Aral petrol stations. Aral customers can use it to pay for fuel nationwide […]