Automated SMS messages to grow 20% by 2022, exceeding 2.7 trillion, as WhatsApp disrupts the market

The volume of A2P (Application to Person) messaging is expected to increase by 20% over the next 5 years to more than 2.7 trillion by 2022, up from 2.1 trillion

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Xendpay Pay-What-You-Want money transfer service wins approval to start operations in India

Xendpay, the first Pay-What-You-Want money transfer service, which reportedly offers quick, low cost and secure cross-border money transfers, has received regulatory approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to

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TerraPay and Wari enter a strategic partnership for cross-border money transfers to mobile wallets and bank accounts

TerraPay, the mobile payments switch, and Wari, a global platform offering digital financial services have signed a strategic partnership agreement that will strengthen the remittances ecosystem in 35 key African

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EMVCo launches EMV Secure Remote Commerce technical framework

Technical body EMVCo has publicly released EMV® Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) – Technical Framework version 1.0. The framework describes the roles, high level processes and data descriptions that enable card

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Payments of the future designed for when money meets manufacturing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not new. In fact, connected devices with a wide range of functionalities are already widely used in the home, a trend that shows no

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TerraPay launches international mobile money transfers to Uganda enabling cross-border payments in Kenya, Tanzania

TerraPay, has obtained an approval from the Bank of Uganda to facilitate international money transfers to mobile wallets in the country. This enables TerraPay’s network partners across the world to

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Mobile banking is shifting gears with PSD2

Mobile devices are the backbone of digital transformation, enabling new innovations such as smart cities and connected cars but they are also the backbone of disruption in the digital banking

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Visa and Marqeta form global partnership to drive new commercial and consumer payments experiences

Visa and Marqeta, the open API payment card issuing platform, announced a multi-year, global partnership to drive further innovations in commercial and consumer payments. Additionally, Visa has made a strategic

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Almost half of users expect mobile devices to be their main form of identification by 2025

Close to half of consumers (48%) expect a mobile device to become their main form of identification by 2025 thanks to new technologies such as biometrics, with a single means

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Mobile biometric payment volumes to triple in 2017 to 2bn, but consumers need multiple biometric tools

A new study by Juniper Research has found that the number of mobile payments authenticated by biometrics will rise to nearly 2 billion this year. This is up from 600

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