Moneymailme CEO reveals first multi-protocol blockchain marketplace at Paris Fintech Forum

Mihai Ivascu, the CEO and founder of the award-winning social payments app Moneymailme, announced at the Paris Fintech Forum his company’s secret breakthrough: the world’s first multi-platform blockchain app store for smart contracts.

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Benefits of an open and shared mobile money ecosystem

Ever since its advent, mobile money services have particularly been rather efficient in extending financial services to users from across the globe. The number of people that use open and

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Sleeping giant – Part 1: The $142bn carrier opportunity

Apple uses it. Amazon uses it. Spotify uses it. In fact, many well-respected consumer technology brands are embracing it with aplomb. DCB – or Direct Carrier Billing – has historically

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Vulnerabilities in mobile networks opens bitcoin wallets to hackers

Cryptocurrencies offer unprecedented transaction speeds and remittance security, but this is compromised by the weak security of digital wallets storing them. Positive Technologies has demonstrated an attack on a user

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Chinese players pursue $3.4trn international digital payments opportunity

A new study from Juniper Research highlights the increasing dominance of Chinese companies in digital payments, with players such as Alibaba, Tencent and UnionPay seeking to bolster their revenues through

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DOCOMO Digital enables NTT DOCOMO’s carrier billing for Amazon in Japan

m-commerce enabler DOCOMO Digital reported that it has joined forces with parent company and Japan’s largest operator, NTT DOCOMO to enable Carrier Billing as a payment option for Amazon orders in Japan.

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Mobile operator billing solution for Spanish ticketing app e-park launched by DOCOMO Digital

DOCOMO Digital has partnered with Spain’s most popular mobile ticket app to allow customers on the country’s three biggest carriers to buy parking tickets using direct carrier billing. This is said to

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How cryptocurrencies have aided cyber-criminals using ransomware

Every year, online crime increases its share of the total crime being committed. Last year, The National Crime Agency (NCA) Cyber Crime Assessment 2016 report stated that cybercrime accounted for

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