FirstBank Unveils Integrated Mobile Banking App: FirstMobile

In line with its commitment to offer value-added products and services that suit the lifestyles of its customers, Nigeria’s most valuable bank brand, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has unveiled its integrated lifestyle mobile banking app, FirstMobile. The mobile banking app which is easy to use is another secure platform that allows customers to execute

NACHA’s Payments Innovation Alliance Launches Mobile Wallet Initiative

The Electronic Payments Association announced its Payments Innovation Alliance has launched a Mobile Wallet Initiative to enable stakeholder companies and the broader mobile wallet community to leverage an “open” acceptance platform that includes support for retailer- and bank-branded mobile wallets for electronic payments. Launched last year, The Alliance is a membership group of more than

Checkout.com Offers Access to Latin America Through Partnership with SafetyPay

Checkout.com announces new partnership with online banking payment method SafetyPay, extending Checkout’s payment options available to Checkout.com merchants wishing to sell to the Latin America market and around the world. SafetyPay payment method extends Checkout.com’s offering to Latin America. Checkout.com’s partnership with SafetyPay complements the existing payment methods available within its unified payment platform and

Cubits Partners with ApcoPay

We are proudly announcing our partnership with ApcoPay. ApcoPay is our third collaboration in the payment gateway scene, representing our conscious move towards making Bitcoin accessible to the broader market. APCOPAY – A GLOBAL ONLINE PAYMENT SOLUTION ApcoPay is a global provider of online payment solutions and a subsidiary of 20-year-old Apco Group. The company

Orange Launches the First Ever Mobile Crowdfunding Platform in Africa

Orange is launching Africa’s first mobile crowdfunding platform in Côte d’Ivoire: Orange Collecte. With this platform, private individuals and charities can finance their personal (weddings, birthdays, etc.) and charitable projects (fundraising, events, projects, etc.) by making an appeal through their mobile network. This novel solution is open to all Orange Money customers in Côte d’Ivoire. Contributors

MasterCard Delivers Android Pay to Cardholders in the U.S.

Millions of MasterCard cardholders will soon have even more ways to make safe and convenient mobile payments. Google announced that they are beginning to roll out Android Pay in the U.S., enabling seamless and secure contactless payments at millions of locations across the country where MasterCard contactless payments are accepted. Over the next few days,

EMP Launches EMPay e-Payment Card

Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading payments processessing company in Africa and the Middle East, is pleased to announce the launch of EMPay, its latest virtual card for the market. EMPay is an innovative pre-paid, non-reloadable e-commerce product that will be made available to banks across EMP’s client base. As a prepaid product, EMPay is

Monet’s Swipe2Pay MPOS Gets Certified by MasterCard

Monet (Private) Limited, Pakistan’s premiere MPOS Services Provider, announced that its solution, Swipe2Pay, has been registered in the MasterCard Mobile Point-of-Sale (MPOS) Program. . This makes Monet’s solution the only MPOS solution in Pakistan at this time to be recognized by MasterCard. MasterCard introduced the Mobile Point of Sale Program to provide guidance to MPOS

VAI and Verifone Partner to Offer EMV-Ready Payment Solution

VAI, a leading ERP software provider, in conjunction with Verifone, announced the availability of S2K Point, a new solution from VAI backed by Verifone Point—Verifone’s North American Payment as a Service offering, which is certified for VAI’s S2K point of sale (POS) software. S2K Point will include Verifone’s EMV and NFC-enabled payment devices supported by

Proxama and Stanchion Join Forces Allowing Card Issuers to Plug-and-play New Mobile Services

Proxama PLC, the international mobile commerce company specialising in proximity marketing and provider of end-to-end payment solutions for card issuers, and Stanchion Payment Solutions, the international payment solutions experts announced a partnership and international reseller agreement. The agreement will offer card issuers and processors the opportunity to design and deliver new services to meet the