Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel reiterated his support for long-term decision making at the corporate level and expressed enthusiasm for the company’s virtual reality work during an interview with CNBC Tuesday (June 21) in Cannes, France. Asked about a steep slide in the company’s shares...
Samsung Electronics is launching a new digital wallet and merging its payments and biometric identification apps to enable Galaxy smartphone users to store boarding passes, credit and debit cards, cryptocurrencies, digital keys, passwords and more. The Samsung Wallet app will integrate Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass and is currently available...
Ghana’s central bank has launched GhanaPay, a mobile wallet for savings and loans companies and banks, including rural and community banks. Speaking at the launch of the program Wednesday (June 15), Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Ernest Addison called GhanaPay a milestone in the digitization...
Digital banking platform Revolut is introducing a streamlined version of its app in Sri Lanka, Chile, Ecuador, Azerbaijan and Oman, which will give users the ability to transfer money to 50-plus countries in more than 30 currencies, according to multiple reports. Headquartered in London and...
Apple now plans to allow other methods of payment for Dutch dating apps, after intervention from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), a report from ACM said. This will see a change to the old rules, in which customers of dating apps were...
To move ahead in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Fitness Apps, the contenders must do some cross-training. It’s not enough to build strength in one area — they must work just as hard on their channel coverage, up-to-date downloads, monthly average users, sessions per user and...
In this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Buy Now, Pay Later Apps, the leaders seem to be saying, “Bye now, see you later” to the rest of the field, as they have a 14-point lead over the runner-up. For the most part, the...
MoneyGram International on Thursday (June 2) announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia-based mobile wallet Mobily Pay that will bring MoneyGram’s international money transfer capabilities to Mobily Pay, giving users the ability to send money around the world in near real time. The latest launch adds...
Providing a monthly dose of new scores and rankings, PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Prescription Apps will help you find what the doctor ordered. As with the rankings of apps in other categories, this one assigns scores based on such factors as channel coverage, up-to-date downloads,...