February 12, 2013
Currency Cloud CEO: “New Finance Is Here To Stay”

The Currency Cloud has added its name to the growing list of alternative international payments providers cropping up in the recent months. Currency Cloud is rivalling with traditional financial institutions...

February 11, 2013
Azimo Rivals With The Big Players In The Remittances Market

What can you tell us about Azimo? How does it work? Azimo is a social remittance network. We allow anyone with an Internet-connected device to send money to over 4.5...

February 08, 2013
International & Cross-Border Payments

San Francisco, CA Global and cross-border payment systems, including emerging payment platforms such as mobile banking and virtual wallets, are set to explode, with all of the major industry players...

January 20, 2013
2013: The Year of Digitally Native Financial Services?

2013 will see a host of digitally native financial services firms start to take market share from traditional retail banks. Unlike vertically-integrated ‘Old Finance’ institutions with high fixed costs, these...

January 11, 2013
Cross-Border eCommerce: Payments’ Next Frontier

As global trade grows, all stakeholders in online industries are facing new challenges, for instance, how to make cross-border eCommerce profitable. Global eCommerce has been growing, on average, 19 percent...

January 09, 2013
HSBC Appoints Rani Gu To Lead Payments Business In China

HSBC has named Rani Gu to lead its Financial Institutions Group (FIG) in China, notes Finextra. Rani, a former HSBC employee, had spent the past seven years at Citibank. “In...

January 07, 2013
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?

Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or eCommerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...

December 14, 2012
Overcoming The Challenges Of Cross-Border Commerce

What could a partnership between a major issuer like MasterCard and a cross-border comments player like FiftyOne offer to the average consumer? Mario Shiliashki, senior vice president of emerging payments...

December 11, 2012
Earthport Expands Payments Service To Turkey

Earthport has announced the expansion of its cross-border payments service to Turkey. The new payment route comes in response to the growing client demand for cost-efficient, low value payments into...