Cards & Payments

Mastercard announced that cardholders in Qatar can now use Samsung Wallet, a digital wallet solution that allows mobile payment services and more, to complete secure contactless payments at several online, on-site and in-store outlets around the world. Erdem Çakar, Country...

A significant step toward enabling Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized assets to easily integrate into the global financial ecosystem, SWIFT has successfully demonstrated that these instruments can move on existing financial infrastructure. The results, from two separate experiments,...

NBX, the leading Nordic cryptocurrency exchange, has selected Enfuce, one of Europe’s leading fintech companies, as its card service provider. The partnership allows NBX to offer engaging, loyalty-based Visa credit and debit cards to its customer base, initially in...

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, announced today that it is partnering with Flocash (www.Flocash.com), FT Africa’s fastest growing fintech 2022, to promote digital capabilities for African SMEs through digital payments, supplier solutions and access to financial services. The...

ING and NXP Semiconductors have developed a payment method that involves pointing your mobile phone in the direction of the person you’re paying. The method is called NEAR and was developed by ING Factory, ING’s workshop for technological customer...

Prove Identity, Inc. (“Prove”), the leader in digital identity, announced it has facilitated 25 million “radically simple” customer credit card applications with Synchrony, a premier consumer financial services company. Synchrony leverages Prove’s Pre-Fill and Identity solutions to dramatically simplify...

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, and innovative wealth-building app Chip, today announced their collaboration, delivering an improved customer experience through dramatically faster account payments. Chip offers a variety of options to make saving effortless through an approach that’s tailored...