Ingenico ePayments Brings Global Payment Capabilities to Messaging Bots in Boost to Conversational Commerce

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Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, and Ingenico Labs, its innovation department, announced a solution to provide eCommerce merchants with payment-enabled messaging bots. The initiative will allow consumers and online businesses to engage in social or ‘conversational’ commerce through popular messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, Skype, Line, Kik, Telegram,

Cellum To Bring Instant Payments System To Mobile Devices

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Cellum welcomes plans by the Hungarian National Bank to introduce a national instant payments system to enable faster and more convenient transactions in the country. The company expects the new platform to mobile payment services even more attractive. Instantaneous and secure payments are already a reality with Cellum’s technology, but are currently limited to using

UBA Empowers MSMEs with Masterpass QR Payment

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United Bank Africa (UBA) has introduced its first merchant-focused app in Africa with the aim of creating a SMART (secure, mobile, accessible, reliable, transparent) network of 100,000 micro merchants and driving financial inclusion. The merchant app will include Masterpass QR, a mobile payment solution powered by Mastercard, and is immediately available for download to any

Tipping The Scale On Mobile Payments

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Any mobile device is a payment device We’re also seeing merchants use apps that turn their smartphones into point of sale devices or use QR codes to accept mobile payments from their customers. The mobile brings the convenience and safety of cashless transactions to spaza shops, flea market stalls, trades people like plumbers and electricians,

Nomanini Integrates With MFS Africa To Increase Mobile Money Footprint

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Increasing the availability of mobile money in informal markets MFS Africa connects over 120 million mobile money recipients across all major mobile networks in Africa, and Nomanini’s clients will have immediate access to this network, increasing the availability of mobile money in informal and rural areas across Africa. Mobile money integration has benefits across the

MasterCard Launches New Facial Recognition Biometrics System

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Taking payments at face value MasterCard has launched its mobile app for biometric verification of online payments, MasterCard Identify Check (or “Selfie Pay” as it’s informally known as), earlier this year. So far the app is available in parts of Europe as well the United States and Canada. MasterCard plans to roll out it to