Leading electronic payment solution provider in South Africa, PayU, is pleased to announce the signing of a two-way partnership with Callpay, the provider of secure payment technology for call centres. As Callpay continues to expand its presence, the agreement will provide existing and new PayU merchants with a secure way to accept payments over the
Shoppers around the world are demanding their retail experience be transformed, a study by MasterCard has revealed on the eve of this year’s World Retail Congress. Retailers are under increasing pressure to adopt new payment technologies, as shoppers demand simpler and more innovative ways to pay, MasterCard’s first Retail Social Listening Study has uncovered. In
Change has been a constant in the cybersecurity industry over the past few years. One of the more subtle shifts is that CISOs have had to learn to appreciate — and use — the word “yes.” For years, information security executives have been conditioned to say “no” to any new technology initiative that was perceived
Investec Asset Management has acquired a significant shareholding in wiGroup, South Africa’s only interoperable point-of-sale mobile transacting network. Investec Asset Management will partner with wiGroup’s founder management and existing shareholder Capital Eye Investments (CEI) to support the Company’s growth and development both domestically and in new markets outside South Africa. Founded in 2007, wiGroup has
Safaricom has opened up its M-PESA platform to allow local and international developers to come up with next-generation applications that will work with the most preferred mobile money solution. By availing M-PESA’s Application Programming Interface (API), Safaricom is fulfilling a promise made during the commissioning of the new M-PESA technological platform in April this year.
This year marks the 21st official year of eCommerce globally, after NetMarket reportedly recorded the first ever online transaction by selling a Sting CD online, on 11 August 1994. Since then eCommerce has come a long way globally, and continues to grow. Last year the industry globally accounted for $1.5 trillion in sales, and it
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, joins forces with Samsung to accelerate the deployment of Samsung Pay through Gemalto’s Allynis Trusted Service Hub (TSH). Samsung Pay is a simple and secure mobile payment service that will provide wider acceptance with NFC and MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) working in most of merchant locations. Gemalto and
Adyen, the global payments technology company, announced a partnership with SurveyMonkey, the leading online survey platform, to kick off global payment processing, starting with Brazil. Through the partnership, more than 800,000 of SurveyMonkey’s current customers in Brazil will be able to pay in reias (R$) via Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Elo credit cards, as
ShopKeep, the cloud-based technology and business management solution used by more than 20,000 independent merchants, announced its collaboration with MasterCard and the MasterCard Easy Savings program. Small businesses participating in the program will now be eligible to receive a 20 percent rebate on all POS hardware purchases from ShopKeep.com, including printers, cash drawers and other
East Africa Bank announced the introduction of the first co-branded MasterCard payment card in , with the roll-out of 5,000 MasterCard debit cards. The collaboration between MasterCard and East Africa Bank will see a wider range of electronic payment solutions being introduced in the country, and made available for all citizens. “Only 5% of the
