Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Visa’s ‘FastTrack’ mentoring session in Dubai. In addition, U.K.-based PayPoint is holding an Amazon Top Off promotion, while African Export-Import Bank is predicting economic growth in Africa. The African Export-Import...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes Amazon’s latest healthcare move, along with a new digital banking service in the U.K. Visa and Mastercard might be making nice, Walmart digs 3D and JPMorgan has a...
PayPoint, the payment technology company, announced news on Thursday (June 28) that it inked a partnership with U.K. challenger bank Tide in which customers will be able to deposit cash into a Tide account at any of PayPoint’s 29,000 retailers nationwide. In a press release,...
Amazon is meeting its customers where they are. In the U.K., the eCommerce giant is letting shoppers load up their accounts using cash, and in the U.S., it’s leveraging that new partnership with Whole Foods to make picking up or returning Amazon goods even easier...
September 11, 2023
Digital payments firm PayPoint is offering a new pay-by-bank service. The British company said in a Monday (Sept. 11) press release that it has become the first open banking provider offering bank-to-bank transfers as a payment initiation service provider (PISP) to pay-as-you-go energy customers. “PISP credit transfers operate on the existing interbank infrastructure but provide […]
June 28, 2018
PayPoint, the payment technology company, announced news on Thursday (June 28) that it inked a partnership with U.K. challenger bank Tide in which customers will be able to deposit cash...
August 25, 2017
Amazon has added the ability for U.K. users to pay for products and services on its eCommerce platform using cash with Amazon Top Up. According to Tech Crunch, the service...
June 29, 2015
PayByPhone, the mobile payments company that is focused on parking, said on Friday (June 26) in a release that it is streamlining the experience in a city setting. Based in...
