When a major shipping player, like Hanjin, sails into financial uncertainty, the ripple effects are myriad and expensive. As of now, there is around $14 billion in goods currently stranded at sea and a legion of owners trying to get them back to land and...
Google is gearing up to develop a website in India, dubbed Bharat Saves, offering consumers information on financial planning. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...
TNS has succeeded in joining the Australian Payments Clearing Association’s COIN network. For TSN, the company gains access to a bigger market, including clients who would otherwise not do business with out-of-network providers.
Australia is becoming, increasingly, a haven for mobile payments. Tencent is making WeChat’s mobile wallet available to Chinese students in the country. The mobile payment system is being marketed to Chinese tourists and students studying abroad. The availability was announced this month by mobile payments...
The first six months of 2016 have not been good for U.K. payday lenders’ relationships with their client base — complaints have gone up markedly since the beginning of the year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
A video released by the Indonesian government showed the Southeast Asian country is on the hunt for a new advisor for its eCommerce sector. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
What could motivate someone to leave a Mark Zuckerberg-funded startup to tackle one of the hardest problems in payments? Iyinoluwa Aboyeji did just that in order to unlock Africa’s $380B payments opportunity. He told Karen Webster how Flutterwave wants to streamline payments to consumers and...
Alipay‘s expansion into Europe got some help from Germany’s Wirecard, which has created a mobile app that enables retailers to accept and process Alipay payments via a QR code scan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg applauded the entrepreneurial spirit in Africa in his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, saying the future will be built in the region. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
