Bank of China has a new online banking platform resulting from a collaboration with IBM that will allow it to leverage customer transactions for future planning. The Chinese bank had ordered a complete overhaul of the platform, including the user interface and the overall design...
MasterCard has acquired Provus, an independent payment processor based in Turkey, the payment card network announced. Neither MasterCard nor Provus disclosed the terms of the sale. Founded in 2001, Provus is based in Istanbul. The acquisition is designed to strengthen MasterCard’s presence in the region....
Known colloquially as “the Square of Africa,” it’s safe to say that mobile payments processor Kopo Kopo had some hefty expectations to live up to when it entered the East African market in 2010. However, recent developments suggest the long quiet company may be finally...
Swedish social payments company and MPOS provider iZettle announced that it will now offer its iOS and Android services in the Mexican market, according to a press release. Mexican merchants are currently being served by recently launched startup Clip, but Square has not yet entered the...
Scott Goldthwaite was named new Senior Vice President of Operations at ROAM less than two weeks ago, on April 1, 2013. A man with experience at payments innovators such as Payment Planet, Hypercom, WAY Systems and other companies, Goldthwaite’s resume speaks for itself when it...
Welcome to Day One of PYMNTS.com’s Mobile World Congress 2013 Recap: a comprehensive look at all the most important payments announcements and coolest stories from MWC2013 in Barcelona, Spain. We will be live on-site for all four days of the conference and aim to bring...
