payments
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
Read moreXendpay 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
Read moreTerraPay 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
Read moreEMVCo 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
Read morePayments 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
Read moreTerraPay 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
Read moreMobile 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
Read moreVisa 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
Read moreAlmost 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
Read moreMobile 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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