Southeast Asia’s Grab Moves Into Financial Services with Loans, Insurance
Rideshare company Grab, a rival of Uber based in Southeast Asia, is moving into financial services, aiming to serve those ...
Tag: Mobile Payments
Synthetic Fraud Slows as Cybersecurity Awareness Increases
EXCLUSIVE—The growth of synthetic fraud, or the method by which fraudsters use a combination of real and false details to ...
Mastercard Merges Physical, Digital Payments Teams as Chief Innovation Officer Departs
Payments processor Mastercard will be integrating its physical and digital payments team into one come April, the company announced, a ...
Europe, India Are Ready for Biometric Payments, Mastercard Says
EXCLUSIVE — As hacks and other methods of digital fraud rise with the adoption of mobile payments, companies and consumers ...
WorldRemit Opens International Money Transfers in New York
Global money transfer service WorldRemit is launching in New York, providing state users the ability to transfer funds to nearly ...
UK PFM App Bean Receives Approval to Launch Payments Service
UK-based startup Bean, a comparison app which alerts its users to savings opportunities, has officially received approval from the region’s ...
With 7M Customers (And Bitcoin Support) Is Square Cash App a Real Venmo Competitor?
EXCLUSIVE--Is Square quietly building the P2P app that will take Venmo’s crown? With seven million active monthly users in December ...
Mastercard to Bring QR Codes on FB Messenger for Nigerian Businesses
Payments provider Mastercard will launch a Masterpass QR ‘bot on Facebook Messenger, to allow small businesses to accept QR-based payments, ...
Mastercard Wants to Innovate Payments (and Energy) With Solar
EXCLUSIVE—Mastercard plans to use its digital payments technology, combined with solar technology, to bring energy to those in rural areas ...
With Realtime Payments Comes Realtime Fraud — and Banks Need to Prepare
EXCLUSIVE—As banks begin to implement faster payment networks, they have to be ready to react to new cases of fraud ...
