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Mastercard Moves To Eliminate ‘Fiat Burden’ And Compliance Worries From Crypto Cards
August 03, 2021

To get crypto cards into the hands of the masses, to get them spending in commercial and retail use cases … well, the cards have to be issued first. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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Consumer, Merchant Appetite For Efficiency Drives 2nd Wave Of Payment Orchestration
August 03, 2021

Payments regulation can feel like a new entrant on to the global scene, given the sheer number of headlines it has suddenly started turning up in over the last few years. But the truth of the matter, Payoneer Chief Operating Officer Keren Levy told Karen...

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Play2Pay CEO Says Gamification May Be The Future Of Payments
July 29, 2021

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High Tech Streaming Video Games Due For A Digital Payments Transformation
July 29, 2021

Video games used to fit neatly into a box with some very well-defined parameters. 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 to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

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SWIFT Intros Fast Cross-Border Payment Service
July 27, 2021

Belgium-based financial messaging services company SWIFT on Tuesday (July 27) announced the launch of SWIFT Go, a service that transmits instant cross-border payments anywhere in the world from a user’s bank account. So far, seven global banks which handle a combined 33 million cross-border transactions...

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China Bank Wants Digital Yuan To Dominate Alipay And WeChat Pay
July 26, 2021

The People’s Bank of China wants Ant Group and Tencent Holdings Ltd., which operate payment networks Alipay and WeChat Pay, respectively, to help it develop digital yuan, The Wall Street Journal reported, even as the state-backed digital currency could diminish their viability — or wipe...

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Mastercard Teams With Lloyds Bank For Open Banking API
July 26, 2021

Lloyds Bank is teaming up with Mastercard to launch PayFrom Bank, a solution that gives people the power to make direct payments to merchants from their bank accounts. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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The Week In Payments: Challenger Banks For Business, The Shifting BNPL Race And Crypto’s Killer...
July 23, 2021

Say what you will about the world of payments and commerce, it’s never boring as every week brings a new slew of issues to the table. And last week was no exception as the great challenger bank disruption started looking away from consumer banking in...

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Global Mobile Wallet Expansion Foreshadows Checkout Consolidation
July 21, 2021

The pace of recovery has been inconsistent worldwide, with widespread vaccinations opening up the doors to life on the outside in places like the U.S., while slow distribution and the rapid spread of the Delta variant is keeping others on lockdown. That unevenness has had...