Digital Payments

Digital Payments
MoneyGram Launches First-Ever Ukraine Bank Deposit Service
January 29, 2020

Peer-to-peer payments service MoneyGram will partner with Industrialbank to create a new bank deposit service in Ukraine. MoneyGram is the first company to let users send money directly to anyone’s bank account in the country, according to a press release. Alex Holmes, MoneyGram chairman and...

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PCI Pal Launches Secure Digital Payments Platform
January 29, 2020

Secure payments provider PCI Pal launched a new digital service on Tuesday (Jan. 28) that will let organizations offer ultra-secure payments across a multitude of channels, from social media to email and everything in between. The service, PCI Pal Digital, will be available for contact...

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Curve’s Digital Banking Customers Can Now Use Apple Pay
January 28, 2020

The European banking platform Curve is now offering Apple Pay to its customers, Curve announced on Tuesday (Jan. 28). The Curve card, which is issued by Wirecard, streamlines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app. With the addition of Apple Pay, customers...

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Malaysia Gov’t To Pay Citizens To Use Digital Payments
January 15, 2020

Malaysia is launching a program on Wednesday (Jan. 15), according to reports, to give out 450 million ringgit (more than $110 million USD) to half of its citizens. The program intends to bolster the country’s digital payments, a jolt to get things off the ground....

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Aon Deal Signals Rising Trend Of InsurTech In The 2020s
January 08, 2020

It will pay to watch how the insurance industry undergoes innovation and disruption in the coming decade, thanks in part to digital tech, faster disbursements and even more focus on policies crafted for small and medium-sized businesses. The latest evidence in favor of that point...

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MoneyGram’s Holiday Transactions Spike 70 Pct YOY
January 07, 2020

MoneyGram reported a record-breaking online transaction growth over the holiday period. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 25, the company, a leader in money transfer services, reported a transaction growth of more than 70 percent from the same time in 2018, with 80 percent of those...

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Graduating To Faster Payments
January 03, 2020

Grade schools and colleges could use a massive textbook dedicated to payments – their own. Any parent of school-age kids has experienced some type of payments challenge, whether it’s the cafeteria account running low on funds and the clunky interface on the school website, or...

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Africa’s Quiet Cashless Payments Revolution
January 01, 2020

While one might assume that a payments revolution would be a hard thing to miss, as it turns out, it can happen. It all depends on how closely the world is looking — and what exactly it expects to be looking for. Sometimes, DPO Group...

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Mastercard Launches UK’s First All-Digital Gift Card
December 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. 16). The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now...