Wherever and whenever consumers shows up to shop, the merchant’s goal should always be the same: Make sure they buy and then...
Banco Santander, the Spanish bank, announced on Thursday (April 12) the launch of a new international payments service that is based on...
Square announced on Tuesday (April 3) that its peer-to-peer (P2P) Cash app is now available in the U.K. According to news from MarketWatch, the...
Sending funds overseas is big business in the United States. According to the World Bank, in 2016, roughly $138 billion in remittances were sent from the U.S....
New research forecasts significant growth for the cross-border B2B money transfer industry. Juniper Research published its latest analysis on Monday (March 26),...
Google has announced that Google Assistant can now be used to pay people back with Google Pay. “When the weekend’s over, chances...
Venmo abruptly removed its instant money transfer feature on Wednesday, saying it needed to “make a few changes” to the service. According...
A new startup is taking aim at PayPal. This time, it’s French startup Lydia, which recently raised a $16.1 million round (€13...
Western Union reported results Tuesday that showed continued momentum in its digital business, as consumer money transfers grew on a cross-border basis....
Western Union, the wire payments company, announced news on Monday (Jan. 29) of the launch of its Western Union Technology Engineering Centre...
Zelle, the mobile payment service of U.S. Bank, says that close to 100,000 customers sign up for the payment app on average...
Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has raised $40 million to drive its next phase of growth, bringing its total amount raised...
Visa, the payments company, announced news on Thursday (Nov. 2) of the European launch of Visa Direct, a real-time international payments platform....
On Wednesday (Oct. 25), Western Union launched a new chatbot for the Facebook Messenger application, according to news from Mobile Payments Today. The...
Differentiating a banking and mobile payments platform from its competitors can seem like an impossible task. When two services provide only basic...
Money moves across hemispheres, and so do some international money transfer firms. To put a narrower spin on that sentiment, Australian money...
Just about a year ago, MoneyGram’s Chief Revenue Officer, Peter Ohser, told Karen Webster that the company launched its MobilePass pilot program with a...
Customers with a Barclays bank account can now make payments simply by asking Siri to do it for them. 9to5Mac reported that...
Western Union stocks are trading up this morning going into the market opening as investors liked what they saw in the firm’s...
PayPal, the online payment company that has been striking a flurry of deals in recent weeks, has teamed with Microsoft to enable...
Hike, an India-based instant messaging company, recently updated its app to launch a new feature: a digital payments wallet. According to a report...
On Tuesday, MoneyGram’s shareholders gave an unequivocal thumbs up to the buyout by Ant Financial. With one more hurdle yet to clear, CFIUS approval, MoneyGram...
With a $500 billion market opportunity and the proliferation of mobile devices among unbanked or underbanked consumers globally, the money transfer space...
Azimo, the U.K. money transfer startup that has the backing of Rakuten, is reportedly launching a new feature that enables users to...
Foreign interference with U.S. organizations or the government is always a concern. Following the 2016 presidential election, this concern has likely only...
When a loved one is working overseas and sending money back to their family, it hasn’t always been a quick relay. That’s...
Global money remittance provider TransferGo announced on Monday (Oct. 24) the addition of a real-time payment option called TransferGo NOW. The new...
Azimo, the money transfer service, announced Wednesday (Oct. 19) the launch of a brand new version of its mobile app, designed to...
U.K. money transfer company TransferWise secured unicorn status earlier this year, and now, the peer-to-peer FinTech firm has a new goal on the...
As details of the bank heist that allowed hackers to lift nearly $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh continue to...
Western Union is partnering with instant messaging service Viber to extend its mobile money transfer service to over 664 million users. The service...
While there may be a trillion dollar cross-border commerce opportunity out there ready for the taking, the move to actually tap into...
The money transfer industry is ripe and ready for consolidation. [bctt tweet=”The money transfer industry is ripe and ready for consolidation.”] That’s...
Western Union is making money transfers a little more social. Yesterday (Oct. 26), the company launched WU Connect, a technology platform that...
Customers will now be able to do much more than just pick up prescriptions at Walgreens locations nationwide. Western Union announced the...
Thanks to a new agreement between Western Union and major grocery retailer The Kroger Co., customers can continue to send money around the...
West Coast grocery store chain Haggen has sent itself a MoneyGram. It was announced yesterday (April 9) that the money transfer and...
Not only do women move half of global remittances, they send a greater percentage of their wages than men. In a press...
In what reports say is one of the largest US venture capital raising rounds for a UK startup, money transfer service WorldRemit...
An Argentine bank whose anti-money-laundering controls got a clean bill of health from the New York Federal Reserve is now at the...
Experts Say Realtime ACH Payments Will Become a Reality Within Two Years
Customers will be able to send money instantly to friends, family and service providers who bank at participating financial institutions.
Walmart and Euronet announced that it will offer a new electronic payments provider.