ACI Worldwide’s Retail Payments Solution Helps Cardtronics Drive More ATM Transactions

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ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced an extension of its long-term relationship with Cardtronics, the world’s largest ATM operator. Cardtronics, a long-time ACI customer, is modernizing its offerings for merchants and financial service providers through ACI’s UP Retail Payments solution – an integrated platform for all

PayGate.co.za Becomes DPO South Africa

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Just over two years ago, we announced the acquisition of PayGate by the DPO Group. This meant our South African merchant community had access to the impressive DPO network to help them grow and expand into more than 18 African markets and enjoy the support of Africa’s largest payment service provider. As part of the group’s

Adyen Launches Card Issuing Offering

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Adyen offers the first global, end-to-end card issuing solution completely built in-house. Adyen, the global payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, has announced the addition of card issuing to its offering. Adyen Issuing will enable clients to provide virtual and/or physical cards to their customers. Cards issued by Adyen can

Fidelity Bank’s 9 Months Profits Hit N23bn, On Course to Deliver its 2019 Financial Targets

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Fidelity Bank Plc has posted an impressive financial performance for the 3rd Quarter of 2019 and is on course to finishing strong in the 2019 Financial Year (FY). Details of the 9-months results for the period ended September 30, 2019, released on Tuesday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed a strong double-digit growth in

Chat Commerce in Africa has Leapfrogged Other Regions

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Speaking at an event hosted at AfricaCom in Cape Town this week, Clickatell co-founder and CEO, Pieter de Villiers shared his insight into chat commerce and chat banking and how they will forever change the way business is done on the continent. Chat commerce and chat banking have revolutionised the way companies are serving their

National Credit Regulator: Do Not be Duped to Pay for Free Services

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According to the National Credit Act (NCA), consumers are entitled to a free copy of their credit report once a year. In the June 2019 quarter, consumers requested 248 785 credit reports from different credit bureaus. Of these credit reports, 75.61% (188,094) were issued without charge, and the remaining 24.39% (60,691) were issued with charge. Nosipho

Mama Money Improves Financial Control with Duco Reconciliation Platform

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Duco’s automated matching process provides the capacity of two full time employees. Having gone live in 24h, costs are now capped, enabling rapid and controlled scaling. Duco, the global leader of cloud-based enterprise data integrity and next-generation reconciliation services have announced that Mama Money, the world’s first social business money transfer operator, has gone live

Demand for Cash Remains Strong Despite Proliferation of Alternative Payment Methods

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Cashless payments have come a long way in recent years, but cash is still a popular means of payment in most countries, particularly those with large rural and unbanked populations. ATM cash withdrawals will continue to increase in most countries After many years of growth, the total number of ATM cash withdrawals worldwide dropped by

Zazu to Launch Mastercard Prepaid Cards Linked to its Mobile Wallet – a First in Zambia

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Zazu and Mastercard partnership to drive digital payment adoption and reduce cash through globally accepted prepaid and virtual cards In a market first, Zazu Africa Limited (Zazu) announced a partnership with Mastercard to issue prepaid cards linked to the Zazu app in a move that will help to reduce cash dependence and increase financial inclusion

Ingenico Partners with Fintech Pundi X to Enable Crypto Transactions Around the World

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Ingenico Group the global leader in seamless payment, and Singapore-based Fintech Pundi X have just announced a major milestone in the global adoption of crypto payments, as Pundi X has completed the integration of their XPOS software with the point-of-sale (POS) APOS A8 devices of Ingenico. Leveraging blockchain to facilitate payments Through this partnership, merchants