Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Cellulant Announces Tingg ‘Super App’ For Africa Payments
October 01, 2019

To bring remittances, bill payments, group investments, lending and food as well as gas orders into one app, pan-African payments firm Cellulant has been quietly creating a payments super app. The company has announced a major rebrand of its Mula consumer brand to Tingg ⁠— a...

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The Real-Time Payments Receivables Conundrum
September 23, 2019

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Keeping Online Counterfeits Off Luxury Marketplaces
September 20, 2019

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B2B Payment Innovations Keep Suppliers In Mind
September 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Online Marketplaces And The $1.8T Counterfeit Problem
September 19, 2019

Fraudsters sold counterfeit products worth $323 billion last year, and are projected to make off with $1.8T by 2020. Kimberly Gianopoulos, director at the U.S. Government Accountability Office says that payments services providers, working with government agencies, can help marketplaces fix that. In the latest...

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Citi On Treasury’s Real-Time Reality
September 19, 2019

Treasury management is becoming a job done in real time, as business is done across borders and time zones. Ron Chakravarti, Treasury Advisory Group head at Citi, tells Karen Webster that gaining insight into how much cash is there — and where it is —...

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Why The GAO Thinks PSPS Can Help Fix The Marketplace Counterfeit Problem
September 18, 2019

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New Report: How Consumers Use Connected Devices To Shop And Pay
September 16, 2019

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar
September 03, 2019

The famous 18th-century political satirist and author, Jonathan Swift, wrote in 1745 that “vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments...