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Twitter Adds Strike API for Tips Paid in Bitcoin
Twitter Adds Strike API for Tips Paid in Bitcoin
September 23, 2021  |  API

Digital wallet Strike announced the debut of the Strike API platform for marketplace and merchant businesses, according to a Thursday (Sept. 23) press release. Get...

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Online Banking Payments Firm Trustly Debuts Near-Instant Payments in US
Online Banking Payments Firm Trustly Debuts Near-Instant Payments in US
September 20, 2021  |  Faster Payments

Following a decade of success in Europe providing its Instant Payouts offering to bank accounts, Swedish FinTech company Trustly on Monday (Sept. 20) announced the...

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UK-based dopay Makes Payroll Cashless for Workers in Egypt
UK-based dopay Makes Payroll Cashless for Workers in Egypt
September 16, 2021  |  International

Paying employees 24/7/365 days a year might be the norm in Europe, but not in a country like Egypt, said dopay CEO and Founder Frans...

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FortisPay Buys OmniFund to Boost AR Features
FortisPay Buys OmniFund to Boost AR Features
September 14, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Payment technology company FortisPay, which works with businesses, independent software vendors and developers, has acquired OmniFund, according to an emailed press release on Tuesday (Sept....

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The European Payments Initiative: Laying the Infrastructure for Europe’s Super Payments App
The European Payments Initiative: Laying the Infrastructure for Europe’s Super Payments App
September 14, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Across Europe — 44 countries, dozens of languages, myriad ways to pay — cross-border, cross-functional infrastructure could eventually give rise to a “super app.” Get...

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Instant Payments: Wonderful, Risky and Begging for Better Authentication
Instant Payments: Wonderful, Risky and Begging for Better Authentication
September 03, 2021  |  Authentication

Though there has been tremendous growth in the digital and mobile banking ecosystem over the last 18 months, the same cannot be said for the...

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BitPay CEO’s Crypto Prescription for New Regs: Go ‘Carefully And Cautiously’
BitPay CEO’s Crypto Prescription for New Regs: Go ‘Carefully And Cautiously’
September 01, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The initial design of bitcoin was to be a payment method, a unit of currency. Along the way in the decade-plus since its creation by...

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Payables Departments Confront Need To Consumerize Business Payments
Payables Departments Confront Need To Consumerize Business Payments
August 31, 2021  |  B2B Payments

For much of the manufacturing, healthcare, higher education and hospitality sectors, the accounts payable (AP) regimen is still largely an outdated process in which employees...

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Europe is Ripe for Instant Payments Where 73% of All Transactions are Still Done in Cash
Europe is Ripe for Instant Payments Where 73% of All Transactions are Still Done in...
August 31, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Agnostic is a word that European Payments Council (EPC) Director General Etienne Goosse often uses to describe the mandate of the payments association that counts...

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