One year on from the easing of US sanctions in Myanmar, MasterCard and CB Bank have announced their first payment product in the country – a prepaid travel card for locals called the CB Bank EASI Travel Prepaid MasterCard card. The reloadable prepaid card will be made available to Myanmar residents for when they travel
Ingenico, a provider of payment solutions, announced an important agreement with Elavon, one of the world’s most important players in the electronic payment industry, for the deployment of Ingenico´s iWL220 wireless device for the Mexican market. Ingenico has been selected by Elavon to complete its extensive product portfolio, with a new line of wireless device.
A little more than six months after the launch of its popular banking application for smartphones and tablet devices, financial services group Absa has added a first-to-market feature on its App with the ability to assign profile images for beneficiaries. The bank also revealed a number of unique and improved features to its App that
Three million Zimbabweans who use the EcoCash Wallet can now also operate a savings account. Econet Wireless has launched a new service called EcoCashSave, which allows an EcoCash customer to move money from their eWallet to an interest bearing account in a matter of seconds. Whilst banks generally do not give interest on deposits of
There’s not much of a limit on what you can buy online these days. Thing is, in South Africa at least, almost all of those ways involve having a bank account and, if you want things to be really simple, a credit card. But what if you could finance your online purchases with a single
WorldPay, a leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, and PayWizard, a platform that provides subscriber management and billing for multi-screen media, have announced an agreement to integrate WorldPay’s payment processing capabilities with PayWizard’s leading subscriber management functionality. The integration will provide merchants with improved customer services, enhanced payment flexibility and quicker time-to-market. PayWizard
“Regional Integration in Africa”, is the theme of the African Economic Conference (AEC) 2013 which will be jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Program in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 28 to 30, 2013. The annual AEC series are designed to promote knowledge
United Bank for Africa (UBA), a Nigerian commercial bank, has launched an e-commerce platform aimed at supporting the growth of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the West African country. U-Mall is a partnership with Netplus Advisory Limited, which UBA said will allow SMEs to set up online stores and extend their reach. U-Mall
ARM Insight, Inc., a provider of transactional analytics and business intelligence for the prepaid debit card industry, announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with FIS Global. The reseller agreement allows FIS Global to market ARM’s Prepaid Management Platform (PMP), to bring advanced analytics capabilities to banks and other financial institutions on its FIS
Gemalto a leader in digital security, announces it has worked with PCCW-HKT, one of Hong Kong’s major mobile network operators, and Octopus Cards (OCL), a leading contactless smart card payment service provider in the world, to bring the security and convenience of mobile NFC ticketing to its subscribers, as well as a number of additional
