Visa and Mastercard push mobile wallet strategies | PaymentsSource
Key insights: Visa and Mastercard are building mobile wallet scale through a series of partnerships. What’s at stake: Both…
Ethiopia Launches 5-Year Digital Payment Strategy, Instant Payment System
Ethiopia launches 2026-2030 digital payment strategy and instant system Ethiopay
Strategy targets inclusion, security, and cross-border retail…
How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute
At a 7-Eleven convenience store in Taiwan, you can pick up a 4-inch plushie of Miffy, the bunny…
Singapore’s YouTrip Expands to Australia With a Pitch of Lower Travel Costs
Singapore-based fintech company YouTrip, best known for its multi-currency travel wallet, launched in Australia on Tuesday. This is…
Black Friday spending down in 2025 in blow to retail recovery
“Across the three groups we are tracking weekly, the pattern over the month continues to show more spending…
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, mobile transfers: How customers make payments in Oman
Following the launch of guidelines for card tokenisation in 2023, international and local payment applications like Samsung Pay…
Brussels stalls Brexit reset talks as carbon tax deadline looms – POLITICO
The same official added that there was also “frustration that other talks are lagging behind” on the more…
Govt Eliminates Service Fees for Online Payments
COLOMBO (News 1st); President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced that all service fees for electronic payments to government institutions…
Taxpayers fork out $10.7m in redundancy costs for Government agency Callaghan Innovation
“This is an obscene waste of money from a Government which claims to want to spend taxpayer money…
ACC stops payments to record numbers of long-term clients
However, ACC advocate Warren Forster told RNZ’s Nine to Noon many clients – most of whom have chronic…
Kiwi businesses affected by major Amazon Web Services outage
“For example bank feeds have not occurred and reconciliation of accounts isn’t possible. The 20th of the month…
BoE to prioritise AI, DLT and quantum computing in tech strategy
The Bank of England (BoE) intends to prioritise AI, DLT, and quantum computing as the three “cross-cutting technologies”…