Sightline Payments is working with Mastercard on the Play+ Mastercard, allowing players to use it for casino games and other activities, according to a press release. Sightline rolled out the first Play+ Mastercard with Resorts World Las Vegas, allowing cardholders to pay for non-gaming activities,...
MoneyGram has announced that is be partnering with the Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization, to enable cash funding and payout in local currency for consumers using U.S. Dollar Coin (USDC), along with almost instantaneous back-end settlements, according to a press release. The partnership will...
Multi-channel, cloud-based payment processing platform Qualpay has added text-to-pay to its suite of services, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 6) press release. The California-based company said the new payment method is aimed at meeting the needs of the constantly evolving business landscape. Underscoring the need...
Whether it’s a finance team separated from the physical office mail and corporate checkbook, or legions of remote workers seeking purchase authorizations or expense reimbursements, the shortcomings of paper-based payments and processes have been laid bare over the last 18 months. It’s taken more than...
In Brazil, crypto acceptance — as legal tender, no less — is on the horizon. But it will come with a host of new regulations and oversight. As reported by sites such as Coinrivet, authorities in that country are introducing a bill that would allow bitcoin...
When it comes to consumer payments, table-service restaurants are far behind their own industry and many others too. Simply put, restaurant payments often look and happen the same as they did decades ago. Consumers wait for a server to bring the bill, then wait for...
Money transfer, foreign exchange (FX) and payment solutions company GCC Exchange, based in the United Arab Emirates, has entered into a partnership with Paykii to provide utility payment services domestically and across borders, according to a press release. The partnership will help make it easier...
When consumers were forced to migrate from physical to digital commerce in the first months of the pandemic, account-to-account (A2A) money transfers soared. In fact, A2A transactions per active debit card per month leapt nearly 60% in 2020, according to the September Next-Gen Debit Tracker,...
In the latest news, artists’ financial rights organization HIFI is acquiring royalty payments FinTech The Music Fund (TMF) in a deal aimed at addressing the notion of a starving artist. Specifically, HIFI wants to leverage TMF’s artificial intelligence (AI) that powers a “smart-pricing algorithm” that gives artists and musicians a...
