High-Tech vs Low-Tech: Providing a Digital Payments Solution for Africa

Africa needs a new payments solution that is digital from start to finish, according to Andrew Torre, Visa’s President of Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking at the Seamless Africa payments, ecommerce, and retail conference held in Cape Town last week, Torre highlighted the need for a new payment solution in Africa, and how mobile will be key

High-Tech vs Low-Tech: Providing a Digital Payments Solution for Africa

Africa needs a new payments solution that is digital from start to finish, according to Andrew Torre, Visa’s President of Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking at the Seamless Africa payments, ecommerce, and retail conference held in Cape Town last week, Torre highlighted the need for a new payment solution in Africa, and how mobile will be key

TerraPay Supports The GSMA’s Effort To Promote Standardised Mobile Money APIs

TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, announced that it has been working with the GSMA to ensure TerraPay compatibility with the recently rolled out standardized mobile money APIs. TerraPay will provide support by providing a staging environment for the new GSMA Mobile Money API Developer portal that will enable the wider technical community to learn

TerraPay Supports The GSMA’s Effort To Promote Standardised Mobile Money APIs

TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, announced that it has been working with the GSMA to ensure TerraPay compatibility with the recently rolled out standardized mobile money APIs. TerraPay will provide support by providing a staging environment for the new GSMA Mobile Money API Developer portal that will enable the wider technical community to learn

ACI Worldwide Powers Seamless Mobile Checkout Experience for Peach Payments

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced that Peach Payments, a fast-growing South African payment service provider (PSP), will offer merchants a seamless mobile checkout solution with the ACI Mobile Commerce Software Development Kit (mSDK). Part of ACI’s award-winning UP eCommerce Payments solution, the white-label mSDK can be

Industry Bodies Align to Standardize On-Device NFC Service Management

ETSI, GlobalPlatform and the NFC Forum detailed a standardized approach to implementing and managing NFC services across all technologies and platforms. The shared work initiative explains how to ensure that NFC services successfully coexist within a device and operate as intended. The standardized approach clarifies how the ecosystem details the expected behavior of multiple NFC

Mastercard Partners with Mobile Money Africa to Host the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo

Leading digital payment solutions provider, Mastercard, has been unveiled as the headline sponsor of the 6th Edition of the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo. The event is organised by Mobile Money Africa and is scheduled for 22 to 23 March, at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki in Lagos, Nigeria. The CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo is a platform

Mastercard Partners with Mobile Money Africa to Host the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo

Leading digital payment solutions provider, Mastercard, has been unveiled as the headline sponsor of the 6th Edition of the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo. The event is organised by Mobile Money Africa and is scheduled for 22 to 23 March, at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki in Lagos, Nigeria. The CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo is a platform

Boon by Wirecard: The First Fully Digitized Mobile Payment Solution is Available With Apple Pay in Ireland

Wirecard is launching boon with Apple Pay in Ireland, the easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. After the initial launch to the UK, France and Switzerland, Ireland is the fourth market where people can use boon with Apple Pay. The fully digitized mobile payment app boon is offering its customers

Driven by ACI Worldwide, Ecentric Payment Systems Extends Omni-Channel Capabilities for Merchants

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that Ecentric Payments Systems, South Africa’s leading payment processor, has expanded its relationship with the company and will leverage ACI’s UP Merchant Payments to extend its capabilities with eCommerce payment and gift card solutions. Ecentric, which has worked with ACI