South African mobile pay platform Zapper has announced that merchants on its platform will be able to accept tap-on-phone payments, a report said Tuesday (May 3). This will give them access to almost all digital payments, without needing other point-of-sale (POS) hardware, and it won’t...
P97 Networks, a mobile commerce platform, has partnered with Viva Energy Australia to roll out an app for fleet managers and drivers, a press release said. The app, called Shell Card Go, will provide fleet managers and drivers with contactless mobile payments, letting authorized drivers...
MercadoPago, the payments division of MercadoLibre — a Latin American eCommerce giant akin to Amazon — is now one of the company’s most profitable units, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (April 28). MercadoLibre launched in 1999 as a second-hand marketplace in Argentina and has...
Merchant acceptance is key for new payments methodologies to reach critical mass, to truly become ingrained in commerce. In Brazil, Meta, in its bid to become a true payments giant across all use cases, is facing significant headwinds. Meta had been on the path to...
Long gone are the days when making mobile or digital purchases in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was an almost impossible task. According to Sahar Salama, CEO and founder of Cairo-based TPay Mobile, even though millions of people in the region have limited...
Venmo has debuted its #VenmoU “Finals Giveaway” of $500,000, letting students earn money as they keep up their schooling, a press release said. This comes as many students might miss opportunities to earn money through like part-time jobs or work study positions. A study found...
Digicel Group CEO Aniqa Sandhu said she thinks it’s high time for emerging economies to get a payments overhaul. Sandhu recently joined Digicel, a mobile phone network and home entertainment provider with operations in 33 countries, after years of working in the financial services industry...
Dutch payments group Adyen has teamed up with Apple to bring Tap to Pay to iPhones for U.S. customers later this year, allowing them to accept contactless payments on their mobile devices without adding other hardware or payment terminals. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables...
When consumers make online purchases of food items, retail products, groceries or travel services, a growing share of them are doing it on mobile devices. The share is especially high when it comes to travel services. Among the consumers who made at least one purchase...
