NBC Targets More Salaried Customers

The NBC Bank Acting Head of Marketing and Corporate Relations, Ms Alina Maria Kimaryo, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that more people were being encouraged to open salary accounts to enjoy wider range of banking services as well as grab various prizes through ‘Mcheza Kwao’ salary account campaign. The services also include the recently

Stanbic Relaunches Revamped Mbeya Branch

Stanbic Bank Tanzania has relaunched its revamped branch in Mbeya in line with its mission to offer better services to its customers. “We are pleased to relaunch a revamped branch to the people of Mbeya,” said Ken Cockerill, the CEO of Stanbic Bank Tanzania. “This revamp is part of our broader efforts to modernize our

First Data and Pivotal Team Up to Deliver Simple and Secure Payment Services to Spring Developers

First Data and Pivotal announced that they will bring First Data eCommerce services to Spring developers. This new collaboration is designed to make it simple and safe for developers seeking to add payment services to their applications. Together, the companies will provide Spring developers with easy access to payment services, an abstraction layer for portability

Gemalto Receives 2015 Digital Payments Award from Juniper Research

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, won the Juniper Research 2015 Award for Digital Payments for its Allynis Trusted Services Hub (TSH), a turnkey solution that helps banks, processors and other issuers to efficiently deploy secure mobile payment solutions across diverse networks and devices. Juniper Research recognised Gemalto’s impactful business approach with this solution

7-Eleven and PayNearMe Introduce the First Mobile Bill Payment Center for Cash Users

PayNearMe, a financial services technology company, has partnered with 7‑Eleven, Inc. to introduce the PayNearMe Bill Pay app, enabling U.S. consumers to pay over 17,000 national and local billers with cash using a convenient barcode scan at participating 7‑Eleven stores. The domestic bill payment service is the first in a line of affordable financial services

European Merchant Services to Contribute to Online Experience for Zalando Customers

European Merchant Services (EMS), an acquiring joint venture between First Data Corporation and ABN AMRO Bank, and Zalando are pleased to announce they have signed a three year agreement for online payment processing services on zalando.be. Under the agreement, EMS will process all Bancontact/Mister Cash (BCMC) transactions for Zalando, Europe’s leading online fashion platform with

SimbaPay Banking App Wins DEMO Africa 2015

SimbaPay – a leading digital money transfer provider – was on Friday, 25 Sep 2015 announced as the winner of the prestigious DEMO Africa 2015 event which was held in Lagos, Nigeria. SimbaPay now automatically qualifies for the global DEMO event that will be held in Silicon Valley, USA. At DEMO Africa 2015, SimbaPay showcased

Tempo Money Transfer Starts Operations in 6 African Countries

The Paris-headquartered remittance provider, Tempo Money Transfer started operations in 6 African countries, launching its collaborative project with the British-based operator Jalloh Enterprise. Now customers can send money from Tempo’s Paris store, or its agent locations in France and Germany and collect the cash in Jalloh’s locations in Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria, Mauritania and Sierra

WorldRemit Launches Money Transfers to Pakistan

WorldRemit, ‘the WhatsApp of money’, launches remittances to Pakistan. Customers in 52 countries can now send money transfers from the WorldRemit app to all bank accounts in Pakistan. The State Bank of Pakistan has found that Pakistanis living overseas sent remittances amounting to $13.3 billion in first three quarters of 2014-2015, a year on year

DirectBuy Continues Shopping Experience Transformation with New App

DirectBuy, the buying club that provides members with exclusive access to over a million products from hundreds of brands without hidden retail markup, is continuing its focus on improving member experience with the launch of their new My DirectBuy mobile app. The My DirectBuy app for iOS and Android devices provides DirectBuy members instant and