Japan’s LINE Pay has announced that it’s been integrating WeChat Pay to be used by participating merchants in the country, according to a press release. The LINE Pay Corporation, which operates LINE Pay mobile money transfer and a payment service on the LINE messaging app,...
Poor cash flow is a business killer. Almost half of all businesses fail within the first four years because of poor cash flow management. A big part of that ongoing struggle is the pervasiveness of checks as the primary method for how businesses, particularly small...
FinTech unicorn TransferWise is now offering its money transfer services in Argentina, letting users move money to and from over 60 countries, the company said on its website and in a press release on Thursday (Aug. 15). Founded in London in 2011, TransferWise operates in...
The “online version of a payments terminal” was how the media portrayed Visa’s acquisition of CyberSource in 2010. Then, it was a very easy way to mentally place the online payments processor in what was at the time a nascent online payments ecosystem. And very...
The National Payments Corp. of India is reviewing an audit report to ensure WhatsApp complies with local rules. “We have received the data localization compliance system audit report from WhatsApp, which shall be reviewed in the next few weeks,” a Mumbai-based representative for NCPI said,...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments are blazing a hotter path in the digital economy as the second half of 2019 gets underway – and there is fresh evidence that the payment method is not only growing, but helping to influence related endeavors. The freshest news from this...
India’s One Nation One Card will be test-piloted with Mumbai bus operator BEST in November, NFCWorld reported on Tuesday (Aug. 13). The national transit card system uses a bank-issued card that will run on India’s RuPay payments network, the news outlet said. Based on the...
“Go West, young man,” or variations on that thought once served to point the way toward potential prosperity for workers and budding entrepreneurs. Now, in this digital era, the push to go international, and to engage in cross-border commerce, is an ideal that applies to...
It used to be all about the Benjamins, all about the cold hard cash – in this case, U.S. $100 bills, as expressed in a Puff Daddy track from 1997. But rap music and hip-hop culture – arguably the greatest global culture force of this...
