Asia Pacific
Axis Bank launches WhatsApp Banking – Bank Anywhere, Anytime on your favorite chatting app
India’s third-largest private sector bank, Axis Bank is embarking on a partnership with the popular chatting app – WhatsApp – to offer basic banking services to its customers. This will allow customers to seek information regarding their account balance,...
Cards & Payments
Worldline extends collaboration with PSA Payment Services Austria
worldlineWorldline has extended its collaboration with PSA Payment Services Austria, acting as the technical clearing and settlement partner for domestic and international interbank payments. PSA and Worldline aim to lay the groundwork for a new real-time payment platform for...
Asia Pacific
Solace Powers Mobile Payments on Standard Chartered Bank Korea’s Digital Banking Platform
Solace has partnered with Standard Chartered Bank Korea (SCB Korea) to maximize the agility and efficiency of Standard Chartered's Straight2Bank (S2B), an online banking platform that allows businesses to make payments and track their transactions on the go.
Adopting a...
Americas
Bank of America expands commercial contact-free payments
Bank of America has expanded its mobile wallet capabilities for corporate clients in EMEA and APAC. The bank first launched mobile wallet in the United States and Canada in 2018, and this expansion makes it the first commercial bank...
Banking
Banking tech startups find new business opportunities as banks digitise systems rapidly
COVID-19 has been sympathetic to the cause of technology companies as manual processes have moved to digital at a faster pace through 2020. Some techies prefer to identify the pandemic as a watershed moment in the use of technology...
Banking
Worldline signs a major strategic commercial acquiring alliance with ANZ Bank
Worldline has signed a major strategic commercial acquiring alliance with ANZ Bank, one of the largest banks in Asia-Pacific and Australia’s 3rd largest acquirer with a 20% share of transaction volumes processed in Australia.
Australia is a highly attractive and...
Banking
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets probes NFC payments
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has launched an investigation into competition in smartphone-based NFC payments, examining whether limitations on access to NFC payments functionality on some devices violates domestic laws.
In a statement, ACM noted many phones...
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