Cards & Payments

Russian lawmakers approved legislation that enables companies to utilize cryptocurrencies for international trade transactions. This move is part of Russia's efforts to circumvent Western sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine. The legislation is anticipated to take effect in September,...

ACI Worldwide, a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments solutions, and Worldpay, a leading global provider of payment processing solutions announced an extension of their longstanding partnership. The agreement will see ACI continue to provide critical infrastructure to Worldpay...

Addition Financial Credit Union is excited to announce the launch of their new innovative, state-of-the-art digital banking platform in partnership with Lumin Digital, a leading provider in cloud-based digital banking. With the new digital banking experience, Addition Financial will provide...

Responding to the growing need to simplify access to global health care for medical tourists, Mastercard and the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) have announced an exclusive partnership to modernize the end-to-end health care experience for patients and providers around...

Paysafe, a global payments platform announced a new partnership with Alchemy Pay, a leading fiat-crypto payment solution provider. In the deal’s first phase, Alchemy Pay has integrated with Paysafe to strengthen its solution for crypto exchanges, Web3 companies and...

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched a “continuous monitoring system” for suspicious crypto transactions on exchanges. In a July 4 notice, the FSS said it had worked with South Korean digital asset exchanges to establish a system for...

Apple has staved off massive European Commission fines by agreeing to open up the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make contactless payments to third-party providers. The EC says it has made the commitments offered by Apple legally...