Octopus, a smart card operator in Hong Kong, is introducing transit cards for public transportation users in more than 300 Chinese cities, the South China...
The “over the top” U.K. buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Zilch has raised $80 million in funding, bringing its value to more than $500...
The Chinese delivery leader Meituan is aiming to raise roughly $10 billion to compete with companies like Alibaba. According to Bloomberg, Meituan is looking to...
The Indian government’s Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has chosen local payments startup Paytm out of 17 competitors to facilitate digital payments for the...
The U.K.’s treasury chief, Rishi Sunak, has dubbed a possible digital pound the “Britcoin,” and said the Bank of England and the Treasury Department would...
When Microsoft spends $19.7 billion on a company whose specialties included voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its health sector strategy, you...
Coca-Cola announced Monday (April 19) that March’s global unit case volume was back up to pre-pandemic levels. Net revenues were up 5 percent year-over-year to...
While there have been many challenges in the past year, Talbott Roche, CEO and president of Blackhawk Network, also recognizes many opportunities inherent in the...
The Bank of England is setting up a task force focused on exploring the design and launch of a digital version of the pound. As...