Bahrain’s Bank ABC has launched instant blockchain payments with J.P. Morgan’s Coin Systems marking the first time a bank has introduced the payment service in the Middle East
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U.S. retail giant, Walmart has introduced a virtual experience on Roblox, designed to encourage the new online communities and increase engagement among its customers.
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U.S. chain Panera Bread has introduced a new one-swipe ordering feature to its app as part of attempts to increase engagement with busy customers who are often on the go.
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Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has announced the expansion of its Direct Remit Service to Egypt as part of further upgrades to its money transfer service.
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Deliverect, an all-in-one platform that integrates online orders in the food service industry, processed over 101 million global online orders in the first half of 2023, the company has announced.
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Mercedes-Benz customers in Germany can now pay for fuel, digitally by fingerprint, directly from their vehicle.
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Kuwait’s Gulf Bank has launched an ‘all-new’ version of its mobile application including several new features, the bank has announced.
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In a significant step toward the advancement of artificial intelligence Amazon is set to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a startup that builds safe and steerable AI models.
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Digital commerce transactions are forecasted to pass one trillion globally by 2024, driven by a surge in NFC payments and digital ticketing, a new study by Juniper Research has revealed.
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SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, has launched a digital banking platform called audax Financial Technology (audax), designed to complement banks’ core systems.
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With the price of goods on the rise Uber Eats has announced that it will soon allow particpants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to order fresh groceries from its app
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AfterShip Feed enables merchants to create product listings with automatic syncing of product details, pricing, and inventory from their e-commerce platforms to TikTok Shop.
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YouTube has unveiled several new AI-powered tools to make video creation more seamless including an image generator, a mobile editing app and automatic dubbing.
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UAE’s Emirates NBD banking group has completed the roll-out of its enhanced mobile banking app, ENBD X which includes a newly-embedded digital wealth platform for its users.
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WhatsApp is bringing in-chat payments to India as part of several new features designed to help consumers get things done with businesses more quickly.
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Author and founder of the Asian Banker, Emmanuel Daniel, tells Seamless Xtra why bankers need to get rid of outdated assumptions about what banking really is.
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Through the partnership, IDEX Biometrics and KL HI-TECH are tapping into one of the fastest-growing payment card markets globally, with nearly one billion cards in circulation.
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Abu Dhabi-based Fuze has raised $14 million seed round to provide its regulated digital assets infrastructure to banks and fintechs across the Middle East and North Africa region.
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IKEA U.S. has partnered with Afterpay to introduce its first-ever Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) programme.
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Badger Technologies, a product division of Jabil and specialist in retail automation has announced it is bringing an upgraded version of Marty the Robot to more than 300 Stop & Shop stores in the U.S.
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