PostBank Uganda and UnionPay International have launched UnionPay PostCard, a new debit card to enable bank customers to conduct fast and safe cashless transactions across the world. Customers can now transact at over 3,000 merchant points in Uganda and over 52 million merchants across 179 countries and regions in the world, with UnionPay PostCard. Julius […]

HSBC Bank USA has announced the launch of its newest real-time payment platform “Global Money Account” which  allows international customer base to hold, manage and send money across various currencies to 14 million HSBC customers in 20 countries worldwide through a single account 24/7. There are no fees associated with Global Money transfers, giving customers […]

Mastercard and its strategic partner Network International have announced a collaboration to drive the adoption of commercial payments and solutions across the region. The collaboration will see the launch of the Commercial Payment Platform in Q4 2020. The platform will offer business and corporate cards, travel cards, fleet cards and procurement cards among other corporate […]

Raffles Hotel Singapore has appointed Adyen as its strategic partner to enhance its digital experience across the hotel’s room reservations, food and beverage offerings, as well as spa and boutique stores. Under this partnership, guests will be offered, contactless check-in and check-out with tokenized payments, heralding a new chapter in hotel guests’ experiences. Contactless check-in/check-out […]

Barclaycard Germany has partnered with Amazon to offer financing for purchases made through Amazon.de above EUR 100 The partnership will enable Amazon’s customers to pay for their purchases in instalments directly during the checkout process, while also having the option of setting up instalment payments for their future purchases. Barclaycard Germany will offer purchase financing […]

Quadpay has acquired Sydney-based technology company Urge Holdings, known for its fashion search engine The Urge as well as a “Shazam for fashion” app known as Shnap, for a purchase price of approximately $6.1 million.  Buy Now, Pay Later company Quadpay will integrate Urge’s technology onto its interest-free instalment payment platform, giving Quadpay’s millions of […]

Mastercard has announced the extension of the Google Pay service to cardholders across Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania together with its issuing partners. With Google Pay, users with eligible Android devices will be able to make purchases in stores and online. Furthermore, this will also give them the option to […]

Bulgarian fintech payment service provider Paynetics AD announced that it acquired tokenization capabilities through Visa Token Service to offer an extended range of services to businesses across Europe. Paynetics can now take its innovative payment solutions in card acquiring and issuing, account management, bank transfers, digital banking platforms and tokenisation to a wider range of European businesses, […]

i2c Inc. has  announced partnership with Purewrist. Under this partnership, the companies will deliver wearable solutions to enable contactless payments at events, retail stores, transit and more. Under the agreement  i2c and Purewrist will provide clients and consumers with the ability to utilize unique wearable payment technology that is affordable, accessible and sanitary. i2c’s platform […]

The Central Bank of the UAE has issued a new regulation on Stored Value Facilities (SVF),  In an effort to ensure that stored value products and services are operated in a secure, sound and efficient manner in the country. This new regulation aims to facilitate FinTech firms and other non-bank payment service providers easier access […]