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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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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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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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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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Author and founder of the Asian Banker, Emmanuel Daniel, tells Seamless Xtra why bankers need to get rid of outdated assumptions about what banking really is.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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India’s IndusInd Bank has announced it has partnered with Visa and Juspay to launch a ‘Virtual Commercial Card’ for corporates and travel agents.
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Visa and NEOPAY, the payment subsidiary of Mashreq, have joined forces to introduce a new instalment payment solution in the UAE.
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Circle Internet Financial (Circle) has partnered with ride-hailing app Grab to pilot Web3 Services in Singapore
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Cash payments in the UK rose for the first time in a decade, last year, as consumers grapple with inflation fears and the rising cost of living.
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In addition to modular carbon footprint management solutions Erguvan is said to offer Türkiye’s only environmental commodities marketplace.
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RAKBANK has enabled UnionPay contactless payments to be accepted across all its payment terminals in the UAE, further driving contactless payments in the region.
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The move follows the rollout of the payment service on AliExpress in several other countries earlier this year.
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PayPoint has launched Pay By Bank, a new solution offering bank-to-bank transfers as a PISP to Pay-As-You-Go energy customers.
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