PayPal, the online payment company that has been striking a flurry of deals in recent weeks, has teamed with Microsoft to enable money transfers in Skype’s mobile app. In a blog post announcing the news, John Kunze, vice president of global consumer product & Xoom at...
Viva Payments, a global, cloud-based mobile payments factory that provides secure online payment services to consumers, professionals and businesses of any size, announced news on Thursday (July 27) that it formed a strategic partnership with leading Chinese mobile and online payment platform Alipay. Alipay is...
With a little mPOS magic, can finding a parking spot or running a restaurant be turned into just another day at the beach? From beating beachside blues to revamping how restaurants track and process payments, there’s seemingly little mobile technology can’t make at least a...
Payments was once the specialized domain of very specialized players — but these days that is changing, as some big brands are redefining themselves as commerce enablers —and building the highly technical payments infrastructure to back it up. So what does the world look like...
Concardis is expanding its international portfolio by bringing Chinese mobile payment solution Alipay to Austria and Switzerland. According to Finextra, CGössl is the first merchant in Austria to enable Chinese guests to pay via smartphone and the Alipay app, with the rollout in the Swiss...
The latest Expectations & Experiences consumer trends survey from Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, finds that consumers are paying more bills from mobile devices while slowly starting to venture into digital wallets. According to a press release, the percentage of...
In a saturated eCommerce market, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba and its biggest competitor, Tencent Holdings Limited, have their eyes on diversification, and Alibaba is losing ground. Like their American counterpart Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent are fashioning themselves identities that have less and less to do...
Coins, Southeast Asia’s leading blockchain-enabled mobile payments platform, announced the closing of a $5 million fundraiser led by Naspers, bringing the total amount raised in its Series A to over $9.4 million. According to Finextra, Coins enables anyone — including those without a bank account...
BBVA has launched a new bot that allows Spanish customers to access financial information via Facebook and Telegram, as well as a tool for making payments from WhatsApp. Finextra reports that with around 86 percent of Spanish internet users accessing Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter or Instagram at...