Tagged: cashless

March 26, 2024 @ 4:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Soft Space, the fintech-as-a-service company, has announced a capital alliance with its long-standing partner, GMO Financial Gate, Inc., which claims to be one of Japan’s largest payment processing companies. This investment from GMO-FG comes before Soft Space’s planned Series C funding round, combining their strengths… Read More

July 23, 2023 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Flash, Egypt’s cashless payments app, completed a $6 million seed round led by Addition along with participation from Flourish Ventures and other angel investors. This funding from the investment round will be used “to accelerate the startup’s product development and customer & business acquisition in… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Merchant commerce omnichannel platform, Pine Labs announced its partnership with Singlife with Aviva, a financial services company in Singapore. Through this partnership, all customer-facing platforms and internal employee gift cards for Singlife “will be powered by Qwikcilver, a Pine Labs brand.” Pine Labs will also… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Globally, rising inflation, a higher cost of living, and slower wage growth are impacting the lives of people right around the world. A recent report suggested that many consumers are turning to physical cash to help manage their finances amid the cost-of-living crisis. But Muhannad… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], which claims to be an international leader in payment services, and Casio Computer recently revealed that they have agreed to a business alliance to support card payments and cashless shopping in Japan, a market with significant potential to transform its conservative retail… Read More

March 11, 2021 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Africa based Fintech group Adumo has secured R225 million (appr. $14.9 million) in capital from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group. The IFC Financial Institutions Growth Fund also contributed investments in order to expand access to… Read More

March 7, 2021 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

There are no extensive regulations yet on Open Banking in Thailand, however, the government’s digital transformation strategy (and the Thailand 4.0 strategy) along with the introduction of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in 2020 indicate that the country may soon offer an Open Banking… Read More

March 5, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GHL Systems Berhad’s Malaysia-based business operations have reportedly added the ShopeePay mobile wallet to their digital payments acceptance options. The new payments service has been added after a recent partnership with ShopeePay Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Through the partnership, GHL will enable its offline merchant base… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coronavirus outbreak has led to a dramatic surge in demand for contactless payments options, which has accelerated the ongoing shift from cash transactions to safer digital payment methods. Jodie Kelley, CEO at Electronic Transactions Association, has noted that during the past 6 to 8… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 10:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TiPJAR, a UK-based cashless and contactless tipping platform, has raised nearly £575,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round was launched last month, originally seeking £300,000, and has attracted more than 980 Crowdcube investors so far. As previously reported, TiPJAR’s platform was… Read More

August 27, 2020 @ 10:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak) announced earlier this week the launch of the Cardless Cash Withdrawal Facility through ATMs (Instant Money Transfer – IMT). According to Kotak, the facility empowers account holders to make cash withdrawals as well as remit money to beneficiaries across India without… Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 4:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TiPJAR, a UK-based cashless and contactless tipping platform, has successfully secured nearly £500,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round launched earlier this month, with the original goal of raising £300,000. TiPJAR revealed that its platform was designed for hospitality staff. The… Read More

May 26, 2020 @ 9:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

XTM, a Canada-based fintech that provides mobile banking and payment card solutions, announced on Tuesday it is using the Interac Bulk eTransfer solution offered by RBC (TSE: RY) to help its business clients facilitate near real-time payments. According to XTM, the solution allows XTM customers or Today… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The fourth quarter of 2019 saw Russia’s citizens perform more digital payments than transacting with cash (for the first time ever), state-owned Sberbank confirmed. Moscow-based Sberbank conducted the market research as part of its SberData initiative, revealing that Russian residents performed 50.4% of total transfers… Read More

July 19, 2019 @ 8:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based fintech Wirecard announced on Friday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ALDI Nord and ALDI SÜD Groups for cashless payment processing. “Within the scope of the partnership, Wirecard will process all credit card and international debit card payments at all ALDI… Read More

February 18, 2017 @ 3:14 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Vietnam is moving forward in reducing cash transactions and formalizing electronic payment methods. Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue signed a plan that ensures that the country has the infrastructure and equipment that it needs to progress toward a cashless economy by 2020. Focus areas… Read More