Digital Payments

Digital Payments
Payments Platform Facepay Debuts Guaranteed Text-to-Pay for Auto Repair Shops
September 15, 2022

Facepay has rolled out guaranteed text-to-pay to help out with credit card chargebacks for auto shops, a press release said. This will see service advisors sending text or email to customers to notify of balance due, tender payments and releasing vehicles as soon as possible....

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Ebanx Brings Digital Payments Tools to Africa
September 14, 2022

Global payments FinTech Ebanx is expanding beyond its Latin American roots for the first time and bringing its digital solutions to Africa. Founded in Brazil, Ebanx spent 10 years expanding to 15 Latin American countries and is now focusing on Africa, which it believes is...

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UK’s ePayments Systems Shutters for Good
September 13, 2022

U.K.-based electronic payments company ePayments Systems is shutting up shop for good. In a post on the company website announcing the news, ePayment Systems said that it “has begun the process of closing its doors and entered into an orderly, solvent wind-down.” The FinTech business...

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Adyen Brings Real-Time Visa Account Updater to Europe
September 13, 2022

Global FinTech business payments company Adyen is the first company to deliver the Real Time Visa Account Updater (VAU) to Europe, which enables companies to boost authorization rates from card-on-file payments by automatically updating Visa accounts. Real-Time VAU aims to help prevent involuntary churn and since Adyen...

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JPMorgan Payments Taps Former Microsoft Treasurer to Lead Co-Innovation Team
September 09, 2022

Former Microsoft Corporate Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer Tahreem Kampton has reportedly joined JPMorgan Payments as a senior payments executive. In this role, Kampton has been tasked with focusing on the future of payments, CoinDesk reported Friday (Sept. 9), citing a statement sent by JPMorgan....

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ProvidusBank, Mastercard, Other Partners Launch Smart Device Tap-to-Pay in Nigeria
September 09, 2022

Nigerian consumers can reportedly now use their smartphone or wearable device to make in-store payments using a new Tap-to-Pay service launched by ProvidusBank, Mastercard, Interswitch and Thales Group. To make these transactions, consumers can tap near-field communication (NFC)-enabled smart devices at contactless-enabled payment terminals. They...

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Clip Gets $50M Credit Facility to Expand Payments Solutions in Mexico
September 06, 2022

Mexican commerce and digital payments platform Clip has obtained a $50 million credit facility from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and HSBC that it will use to continue adding payments solutions for the country’s businesses as well as improving financial access for both business and consumers....

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How Real-Time Payments Can Unleash Economic Growth in the GCC
September 04, 2022

National-level real-time interbank payment networks are increasingly recognized as one of the pillars of the modern economy, but the need to coordinate between banks, governments and industry means that rolling out such schemes is far from straightforward. For this reason, while pioneers such as South...

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India Backs Recurring ePayments on Utility Bill Platform
September 01, 2022

The Indian government will support free electronic transactions under Bharat Bill Pay Systems (BBPS), and could end up cracking down on companies charging fees, Economic Times of India reported. An unnamed official told Economic Times that the government will keep the unified payments interface as...