Fintech Finance

AUGUST 28, 2024

BankDhofar is the fastest-growing bank in the country, with over 124 branches and a digital banking strategy enabling it to be the “closest to their customers”. Dhofar-Pay allows users to securely add their existing Visa debit and credit card details to their NFC-capable Android phones. The overall experience was described as “smooth.”

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Indonesia and the Philippines lead in e-wallet usage, with 92% and 87% of respondents, respectively, using the payment method, especially QR payments and mobile payment apps. The Indonesian government has also played a critical part in fostering digital payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Despite the dreams and expectations among all kinds of people during the rise of eCommerce and digital payments, cash isn’t really going away. After all, people around the globe continue to go about their daily lives without the benefits of bank accounts, payment cards or reliable access to digital payment services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Digital banks , for one, are teaming up with technology providers to accelerate settlement times for payments collected at the point-of-sale (POS). Legacy banks are similarly at work, with one major FI seeking to beat out FinTech competition by offering same-day access to credit card deposits. Around the Faster Payments World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Japan, in the last several years, has been something of a puzzle among mobile payments watchers around the world. And the first mobile wallet in history launched in Japan — created by I Mode and DOCOMO 20 years ago in 1999. PayPay And Signs Of Mobile Acceleration. percent).

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Mobile Payments Online and Mobile Banking Payments Push-to-Card 61

Fintech News

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to The State of Digital Retail Payments in Asia Pacific 2024 by Forrester , high-growth economies like Indonesia and Malaysia are leading the shift, with consumers increasingly favouring digital payments. Singapores Fluid Digital Payment Landscape Singapores digital wallet scene presents an interesting mix.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Japan’s history of mobile payments progress is one of the more curious stories in the field. The country was home to one of the world’s first mobile commerce innovations with the DotCoMo mobile wallet all the way back in 2004. Abrahamson said the government is also giving merchants incentives to buy contactless terminals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Japan may have a lot of tech-savvy consumers, but when it comes to payments, they haven’t embraced the new way of purchasing things. The study found that it was more than double the percentage of Japanese internet users who typically pay via a digital payment method. percent of the survey respondents.

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FICO

AUGUST 30, 2016

A few seconds later, after touching a few buttons on the payment terminal screen, I was walking out the door. I experienced two things: a frictionless digital payment, and a mild customer experience victory.*. Check out the blog in the tweet below for another payment expert’s hilarious, deeply personal tangle with EMV.).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. Instead, they’re now seeking entirely contactless payments in a COVID-19 world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. Instead, they’re now seeking entirely contactless payments in a COVID-19 world.

Mobile Payments 56

Mobile Payments Online and Mobile Banking Contactless Payments Push-to-Card 56

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Mediterra Capital is expanding its portfolio with a big new investment that will give the top Turkish private equity firm a stake in the country’s fast-growing digital payments sector. PayCore has been pushing to expand globally from its home base in Turkey, having acquired Mastercard Payment Transaction Services Turkey Bili?im

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is preparing to enter the mobile payments market, reportedly working to get retailers to accept Amazon Pay as a payment method. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Amazon wants the service to be expanded beyond making payments online. where competition isn’t as fierce.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 20, 2024

After years of pushing to a fully digital payments landscape that will in theory see a cashless economy in the (reasonably) near future, it could all come tumbling down after a series of technical issues that has seen major retailers unable to process card or contactless payments and once again relying on notes and coins.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

To that end, on a grand stage, in payments it is the BRICS that may shape – at least in part – how mobile payments evolve. As reported last month, the BRICS have been moving toward a unified payment system. Increasing and enabling debit card payments will help Google grow in mobile payments, he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

While one might assume that a payments revolution would be a hard thing to miss, as it turns out, it can happen. As of today, a little under 13 years after the launch of M-Pesa in Kenya, there are nearly 200 million consumers subscribed to mobile money services. Those questions have been answered. . No one calls this eCommerce.,”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Kevin Phalen , head of global business solutions at Visa , told Karen Webster that the consumerization and the digitization of the B2B space are enabling firms to get the job — moving money — done with efficiencies previously unknown. We’re still a long way away from an end to end digital experience governing how corporates pay and get paid.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With YellowPepper, companies can access application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow issuers, processors and governments to easily access numerous payment rails and let multiple payment flows through one single connection, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. That team was a new initiative created to combine core products, digital payments, Mastercard Labs and processing activities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

To that end, on a grand stage, in payments it is the BRICS that may shape – at least in part – how mobile payments evolve. As reported last month, the BRICS have been moving toward a unified payment system. Increasing and enabling debit card payments will help Google grow in mobile payments, he said.

Mobile Payments 52

Mobile Payments Cross-Border Online and Mobile Banking Payments 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Jim McCarthy , president at i2c , said that a great digital shift will spur tie-ups of all sorts — from partnerships to outright buyouts — as incumbents seek to move quickly to modernize their tech stacks. to go public. And companies must deliver — or risk being rendered obsolete.

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The Payments Association

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Payments Association (TPA)’s George Iddenden recently sat down with Peter Theunis, senior vice president sales and European managing director at BPC to discuss the remarkable transformation of the payments processing industry, driven by the rise of fintech, the shift towards digital payments, and evolving consumer behaviours.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

We’re still navigating the pandemic — which means doing what we used to do offline, increasingly, through digital means. Merchants, he said, “need to make sure they not only accept credit cards but also contactless payments.”. Even waving the card at the point of sale (POS) may face headwinds because of transaction limits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

In late 2016, India’s government surprised the world with a decision to push the race for payment digitization from a marathon to a sprint, by deciding to scrap nearly 85 percent of the nation’s physical currency reserves almost overnight. There are, however, many players competing for a piece of the Indian digital payments pie.

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Mobile Payments Payments Digital Payments Push-to-Card 52

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Liquid Group, a digital payment solutions provider, announced the launch of roamQR, a new QR payment switch solution designed to simplify cross-border payments across the Asia Pacific region. roamQR is expected to connect approximately 50,000 merchants in Singapore and over 50 million merchants globally.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Though the great consumer shift to digital is often seen as a side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s not entirely accurate, Mike Cowen , Mastercard ’s head of digital payments for the U.K., For a certain segment of the consumer and merchant population, that digital shift was already well underway pre-COVID. “One

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Fintech News

JANUARY 26, 2025

Payment trends in Asia are changing how businesses and people transact from the digital-first economies of China and Singapore to the quickly changing markets of Indonesia and Vietnam. Back in 2023, digital wallets accounted for 82% of China’s e-commerce spending and 66% of physical purchases, totalling around US$7.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Becoming unbanked also means losing access to other credit products or the ability to receive digital payments or disbursements via traditional channels, further reducing the money these individuals can save in an attempt to bolster their financial standing. and why it appears to be pushing the percentage of unbanked consumers up.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The first was the move from digital transformation to digital acceleration. Companies are not going to be satisfied with the progress made during 2020’s digital transformation. Yes, there’s an old school way of looking at the current digital payments landscape. It started with a simple premise.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Creating certainty for the consumer when using mobile payments. The certainty that comes with creating a thick market of merchants and consumers and accounts that work across any mobile device that they happen to own, and can use at the places they routinely shop. I don’t think consumers even want a mobile wallet.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That left FIs scrambling to “rapidly figure out how to get that same emotional and engagement outcome when the possibility of face-to-face is virtually nonexistent,” Randy Piatt , head of product solutions at card technology firm Ondot Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Simple: Start with the cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Helena Mao , vice president of global product strategy for payments at Blackhawk , spoke to PYMNTS, explaining why many consumers were slower to adopt the rollout of mobile wallets and payment methods in places like the United States — and why those feelings may be shifting. By contrast, U.S. is suddenly popping up everywhere.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In a mutual commitment to accelerating the adoption of an open digital wallet, global card networks Mastercard and Visa announce their agreement to allow each network to request tokenized credentials from the other when consumers are transacting across any digital medium — in app, online and in store. Tokens Get Turbocharged.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

PSCU , a payments credit union service organization (CUSO), has rolled out its Digital Issuance solution in an effort to keep bolstering the credit union (CU) member experience, according to a Thursday (Dec. 10) announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

26) that participating stores in Canada will now accept Chinese mobile payment systems Alipay and WeChat Pay. In a press release , 7-Eleven said it is working with CITCON, the cross-border mobile payment company, to make this a reality. 7-Eleven, the convenience store operator, announced on Monday (Nov.

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The Payments Association

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Payment technology and innovation are accelerating across the fintech industry, with more companies recognising the importance of adapting to changing customer needs, with non-cash transactions projected to hit 2.3 A team of Paymentologys payment experts explore what we can expect to see in the payments industry next year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

As consumers become used to, and increasingly embrace, life lived digitally, financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes must prepare for seismic shifts in how customers access financial services, communicate with their FIs and make payments. Dusting Off What’s On The Shelf.

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