Chinese tourists in South Africa will have more opportunities to pay via smartphone as Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), partners with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights and digital marketing platform developed in South Africa. This partnership will allow them to
Corporate Executive of MTN Ghana, Mrs. Cynthia Lumor, has warned customers and subscribers of the mobile money service against sharing their pin numbers with vendors or agents. According to her, no vendor or agent has the right to demand the private pin numbers of customers when performing a function on the mobile money platform. This
The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) is pleased to welcome ATMRecruiter.com as a Withdraw Cash Wednesday Gold Sponsor. The Withdraw Cash Wednesday initiative promotes consumer ATM cash withdrawals on Wednesdays throughout the year, especially before heavy shopping periods like the upcoming U.S. Labor Day and Thanksgiving holiday weekends and the December holiday season. “I am happy
Mobile contactless transactions topped £370 million in the first six months of 2017, a whopping 336% year on year rise in spending, according to the latest transaction data from payments processor Worldpay. The use of mobile devices to make in-store payments has been growing steadily since the UK launch of Apple Pay in 2015, but
Mobile contactless transactions topped £370 million in the first six months of 2017, a whopping 336% year on year rise in spending, according to the latest transaction data from payments processor Worldpay. The use of mobile devices to make in-store payments has been growing steadily since the UK launch of Apple Pay in 2015, but
Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits in the Group’s global headquarters and all its other markets which include Kenya, Tanzania,
TerraPay, the world’s first mobile payments switch and Instant Cash, one of the fastest growing money transfer companies in the world, have teamed up to enable real-time cross border money transfers to mobile wallets. Powered by TerraPay’s global clearing and settlement service for mobile wallets, the partnership will make cross-border money transfer faster and convenient
The leading payment and internet technology company, Wirecard, announces an extension of the recently presented Omnichannel ePOS Suite with innovative technology for payment and risk optimization. With this update, Wirecard offers merchants even more added value, as the tool enables merchants to analyze customer value and churn rates as well as fraudulent behavior in the
Youtap, a global provider of contactless mobile payments and financial services software, has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia. Youtap’s solution enables customer-initiated or merchant-initiated QR code payments for smartphones and smart point-of-sale devices. The solution conforms to the BharatQR industry standard developed by Bharat,
Women are steadily catching up to men when it comes to cashing in on the convenience of sending and receiving money via eWallet on the FNB App. The latest data revealed by FNB eWallet Solutions shows that in the six months to June 2017 the percentage eWallet sends by male users on the FNB App
