July 12, 2012
Money Transfer Startup Raises $3M To Disrupt Cross-Border Payments
The Currency Cloud raised $3 million to support development of its cloud-based currency conversion and international payments platform for B2B transfers, TechCrunch reports. Today’s $3 million raise will be added...
July 11, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: July 10-11
China beats out U.S. to be largest smartphone market, Apple share grows eCommerce: 16,000 interviews in 16 countries show developing nations are more digital than us Chase Launches Reloadable Card...
July 10, 2012
Earthport Delivers Cross-Border Payments to Russia’s Yandex
Earthport will provide expanded international payment options to users of Russia’s Yandex.Money, an e-wallet service with more than 11 million accounts as of mid-2012. E-wallet use in Russia has grown...
June 26, 2012
Earthport Enables Cross-Border Payments in Asia-Pacific
Cross-border payment specialist Earthport has partnered with the Decillion Group, an NEC subsidiary, to power remittances for a “160-strong banking customer base” in the Asia-Pacific region. Earthport Executive Director Paul...
June 20, 2012
Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to...
Thank you for joining us for the Earthport webinar event! If you missed out on the live event, Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to Your Business is...
June 14, 2012
What’s Next In the SEPA Saga?
The years of procrastination (by some) are over, and payment services providers — as well as consumers — will have to get ready to be compliant with SEPA in the not so...
May 25, 2012
Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to...
Thank you for joining us for the Earthport webinar event! If you missed out on the live event, Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to Your Business is...
May 22, 2012
Earthport Expands into Japan via GWT Corp. Partnership
Earthport entered into a new partnership with Tokyo-based GWT Corp. this week, boosting the company’s ability to provide international payment processing services. “GWT has excellent relationships in the Japanese financial...
May 09, 2012
Western Union’s Digital Wallet for Business Cures International Headaches
Paying vendors is an easy task for businesses that work exclusively with dollars. But even adding one currency to the equation can make an absolutely essential business process painful. Western...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Digital wallets are transforming cross-border payments, making transactions faster and more seamless — but U.K. consumers are lagging behind businesses in adoption. The latest “Global Money Movement” data brief, a collaboration with TerraPay, explores the gap between consumer and merchant adoption, the role of generational trends, and what it will take to accelerate digital wallet usage across the U.K.