February 09, 2022
Today in the Connected Economy: Facebook Launches Split Payments

Today in the connected economy, Facebook Messenger makes good on its promise to launch a Split Payments feature, as well as a couple of other tools, while Mastercard works with...

February 09, 2022
Tillful Launches Card for Small Businesses With Highnote and Mastercard

Small and medium-sized business (SMB) credit platform Tillful has collaborated with payment card creation company Highnote and Mastercard on the Tillful Card, which will increase SMBs’ access to credit and...

February 09, 2022
FinTech Kashat, Mastercard Partner to Expand Financial Services to Egypt’s...

With as many as 67% of Egypt’s residents without a bank account, Mastercard and FinTech Kashat have signed a deal to digitize onboarding, disbursement and collections for the Middle East...

February 09, 2022
Voyager Plans to Let Users Buy Stocks With USDC

Cryptocurrency platform Voyager Digital says it will launch a feature this year that lets customers purchase stocks with the stablecoin USDC. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 9), the offering...

February 07, 2022
Digital Dollar’s Power Problem: What Happens When the Lights Go...

One of the big promises of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is that they are usable anywhere paper currencies are accepted. That is to say, everywhere. But like credit cards,...

February 07, 2022
Today in the Connected Economy: Porsche Launches Connected Car ‘Data...

Today in the connected economy, Porsche hosts the Porsche Data Cup, a contest open to developers from other companies designed to find new use cases for data generated by connected...

February 07, 2022
With Product Debuts, Crypto Industry Puts Banks in its Crosshairs

The fast-growing U.S. crypto debit card market has a new entrant in Wirex, a U.K.-based digital payments platform that claims the first such cryptocurrency-based payments product, launched in 2015. The...

February 07, 2022
Blackhawk Expands Partnership With Kroger for More B2B Gift Cards

Global payments provider Blackhawk Network is expanding its partnership with Kroger to offer prepaid Mastercard and Visa cards in bulk through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based Velocity B2B gift card service, the...

February 07, 2022
Fiserv Acquiring Finxact for Digital Banking Acceleration

Payments and financial services platform Fiserv, Inc. has inked a deal to buy cloud-native banking solution Finxact, Inc., as part of the next step in its digital banking strategy, allowing...