FIS Opens Financial Inclusion Lab in India to Drive Banking Access

FIS, a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, announced the launch of India’s first financial inclusion lab in Bengaluru. The lab is aimed at developing innovative ways to extend banking access to India’s millions of underbanked citizens. The lab is the first of its kind in India

POS on Cloud and Clutch Partner to Serve Advanced Customer Solutions to Restaurants and Retailers

Clutch announced its strategic technology partnership with POS on Cloud, a provider of cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions supporting the restaurant and retail verticals. Through this partnership POS on Cloud merchants will be able to leverage consumer intelligence and engagement solutions available through Clutch’s Consumer Management platform to identify, understand and engage their customers

Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa Points to the Growing Importance of Digital Business

Gartner, Inc.’s “Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa, 2015″ report identifies over 30 key technologies and describes how they will impact business performance during the next 10 years. “The Hype Cycle aims to help global strategic officers and domestic CIOs from the private and public sectors take account of the current state of important technologies

PayPal, Worldpay, Visa Executives Join Emergent Payments Team

Emergent Payments, a global payments company that enables digital businesses to accept over 200 secure payment methods around the world, announced it has added executives from PayPal, Worldpay and Visa to its senior leadership. The new executives will enable Emergent Payments to address a new wave of growth, following the company’s re-launch in June 2015

Linkpay Launches American Express OptBlue

Linkpay, a leading omni channel payment processing solution for merchants of all types and sizes, is pleases to announce we have launched American Express OptBlue program. American Express continues to work to enhance the U.S. small merchant experience with the development of the OptBlue program. This program helps make it possible for small merchants to

Bharti Airtel And Uber Announce First-Of-Its-Kind Strategic Partnership

We are thrilled to announce an innovative collaboration with Bharti Airtel – the largest wireless carrier in India and third largest wireless carrier in the world. Through this partnership, riders in India can pay for their trips with Airtel’s mobile wallet, Airtel Money. Additionally, Mumbaikars will now be the first in India to enjoy free

DHL Africa Launches Pocket-Sized, All-Touch Computers

The rise of e-commerce and increased competition are driving the demand for real-time supply chain visibility. This is according to Oliver Facey, Vice President of Operations for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, who says that supply chain operators should increasingly invest in transportation management systems and solutions to improve the quality, speed and precision of service.

SLA Mobile and Yalla Click Partner to bring Carrier Billing to Customers

Yalla Click is a Value Added Services company offering customers a wide range of content including news, entertainment, downloads and apps. By observing regional and international market trends, Yalla click are able to offer their customers the most recent developments in Value Added Services. Yalla Click have partnered with SLA Mobile to deliver content to

Tigo Pesa and Worldremit Enable Easy International Money Transfers for the Tanzanian Diaspora

Millicom, announced that Tigo Pesa, its Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania, has joined with WorldRemit, the London-based online peer to peer money transfer service. The partnership will enable the Tanzanian diaspora to directly send money to families and friends back home through their smartphones, tablets and computers. Announcing the launch in Dar es Salaam today,

Bitnet and PAY.ON Enter Strategic Partnership to Enable PSPs Globally to Offer Simplified Bitcoin Acceptance

Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and PAY.ON, a leading provider of white label global payment gateway solutions, announced a strategic partnership that will enable payment service providers globally to offer bitcoin as a payment method via PAY.ON’s RESTful API-based payment platform. Bitcoin is a digital currency that allows merchants to accept payment from anyone,