A new partnership between global branded payments provider, Blackhawk Network, and leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service, Klarna, will extend the ability for consumers to use Klarna’s interest-free alternative payment solutions at a variety of physical retail locations. As consumers expect increased flexibility in the way they shop and pay throughout their everyday […]

Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service today announced the launch of its new Loyalty Card feature in the Klarna App. This allows app users to store and access their physical loyalty cards as digital versions. They can then collect all points and benefits at any merchant without the need to carry […]

Building smarter logistics processes and ensuring sustainable supply chain operations took center stage at this year’s Seamless Middle East – the region’s largest payments and eCommerce event. The eCommerce sector in the Middle East has experienced tremendous growth jumping from USD 5 million five years ago to over USD 50 million by the end of […]

Amadis has announced a partnership agreement with Softpay.io to provide its Universal EMV Level 2 Framework & pre-certified Kernels for integration into Softpay’s new Tap-to-Pay service. Softpay’s revolutionary Tap-to-Pay service can be downloaded into any Android device and turn into a full payment card acceptance terminal. Softpay’s solution provides merchants with greater flexibility and future proofing capabilities, […]

PayMyTuition has announced the launch of their innovative eBill and eStatement solution for the higher education category incorporating open banking and request to pay technologies. This launch, adding to their recent all-in-one solution offering, will equip colleges and universities with a new contactless way to produce and process bills and statements so that payments can […]

Moneyhub has partnered with financial technology platform Wyzr to enable automated financial planning, a first for the UK market. Powered by Moneyhub’s Open Banking technology and Wyzr’s artificial intelligence algorithms, the Wyzr platform will kick off its pilot later this month making it easy for consumers to analyse past and current spending and save for […]

National Incubation Center (NIC) Lahore at LUMS nominated start-up Codeschool.pk has won top laurels and a cash prize in the capstone business pitch competition in the Stanford Seed Spark Program for high-achieving entrepreneurs across South Asia.  This was the inaugural cohort from Pakistan and was introduced by NIC LUMS. “Our partnership with Stanford SEED Spark […]

Global payments and card issuance leader Nium and Japanese payments company Queen Bee Capital (QBC) have partnered to enhance international transfer offerings for both corporate and individual QBC customers across Japan. Through this partnership, QBC will tap into Nium’s advanced pay-out capability to provide real-time, cost-efficient, and transparent cross-border payment solutions from Japan with 30 currencies to over 200 countries and […]

HIPS Payment Group and Vourity have announced their partnership, enabling crypto payment for 50,000 EV charging stations across the European Union (EU). Crypto payments will be fully integrated in the Vourity platform and can connect directly to the blockchain via Hips Merchant Protocol’s (HMP) native protocol token Merchant Token (MTO) starting November 2021. Currently, the […]

CIBC, together with Visa, announced a new installment payment option for online purchases, anticipated to launch for CIBC cardholders in Canada in early 2022. Visa Installments is a new option to convert qualifying purchases into smaller, equal payments made over a defined period of time using an eligible credit card. This new offering will be […]