Square’s Early Access Program for Tap to Pay on iPhone is officially over and the payment option is now available to all sellers in the U.S. using an iPhone and Square’s point of sale (POS) app. Early access to Square’s iPhone Tap to Pay option...
Shopify has unveiled POS Go, a point-of-sale (POS) hardware solution that lets merchants transact sales “from counter to curb.” “With POS Go, merchants can close the sale anywhere, while viewing detailed product information, customer notes and purchase history to level up the in-store experience,” the...
Financial technology platform Adyen has partnered with Block’s mobile payment method Cash App to become the first such platform to offer Cash App outside of its Square ecosystem. With this partnership, businesses working with Adyen will be able to begin accessing Cash App Pay as...
Kenya has been at the forefront of Africa’s mobile money revolution ever since Safaricom launched the continent’s first mobile money platform M-Pesa, but Ethiopia has lagged behind its neighbor and other countries in the region. In fact, it’s only this month that Ethiopian FinTech Kacha...
Home to a string of popular FinTech unicorns and pan-African payment giants like Flutterwave, Interswitch and OPay, Nigeria’s tech startups often steal the headlines. However, the budding financial technology in Côte d’Ivoire is an indication that Nigeria is not the only country in West Africa...
African money transfer service M-Pesa has debuted bill pay interoperability that lets Airtel and Telkom customers make mobile money payments directly into Safaricom’s M-PESA Pay Bill Numbers. The move comes in the wake of the company’s announcement in April that allowed Kenyans to make mobile...
After years of sustained growth, the mobile money sector in Africa is changing. Up until recently, mobile money has been seen as a substitute for cash and a convenient way to transfer money without the need for a bank account. But mobile money networks are...
In June, Ghana’s central bank launched GhanaPay, a mobile money wallet for savings and loans companies and banks, including rural and community banks. Developed through a collaboration between local banks and the country’s central bank, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the new platform is expected...
Splitit is partnering with contactless pay and customer engagement solutions firm Everyware in order to add Splitit’s Installments-as-a-Service platform to Everyware’s Pay By Text platform, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS Thursday (June 23). This will see Everyware integrating Splitit’s services to deliver...