Fintech News

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Wise, which promotes itself as a provider of affordable and fast cross-border payments with no hidden costs, was found to have misled US customers by suggesting they would incur lower ATM fees while also failing to properly disclose exchange rate details.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 27, 2025

Moniepoint , a Nigeria-based fintech offering an all-in-one banking, credit, and cross-border payment solution for African businesses and their customers, is on a mission to help businesses and individuals digitise their operations. As well as our business solutions, we now offer services to individual consumers.

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Finextra

JUNE 26, 2025

These threats include: Online payment fraud The use of stolen cards by fraudsters: A fraudster takes control of a credit or debit card account to make unauthorized transactions. Card skimming: Devices capture card information at ATMs or point-of-sale terminals, such as at gas pumps. Stablecoins vs. Fiat for E-commerce. Pros and Cons.

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Finextra

JUNE 26, 2025

These threats include: Online payment fraud The use of stolen cards by fraudsters: A fraudster takes control of a credit or debit card account to make unauthorized transactions. Card skimming: Devices capture card information at ATMs or point-of-sale terminals, such as at gas pumps. Stablecoins vs. Fiat for E-commerce. Pros and Cons.

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Finextra

JULY 10, 2025

billion in profits for FY24 24 April 2025 Finextra Promoted [On-Demand Webinar] Payments Modernisation in EMEA – 2025 priorities and challenges Welcome to Finextra.

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Fintech News

APRIL 11, 2024

This burgeoning sector, characterised by its complexity and diversity, demands payment solutions that are efficient and adaptable to the nuanced dynamics of cross-border trade. Amidst the APAC region’s rapid economic ascent and the explosion of digital commerce, cross-border payment practices have noticed an evolution.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 17, 2025

Payoneer has quietly built one of the most robust and widely used financial platforms for cross-border payments. Payoneer also monetises through prepaid Mastercard usage fees, ATM withdrawal charges, and currency conversion when users spend globally. More recently, it has expanded into financial services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Cross-pollination in financial services — leveraging payments across digital and physical channels — is an emerging trend, especially when it comes to cross-border transactions, and especially with remittances.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

UnionPay International (UPI) and the National Payment Corporation of Vietnam (NAPAS) will enhance their collaboration on cross-border QR code payment interoperability. The collaboration follows an earlier MOU, signed in August 2024, between the central banks of China and Vietnam to promote cross-border payment systems.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

Amid cross-border payments efforts, Ripple has gained some traction in recent days. We helped them send money home through 30,000 ATM machines. The bank is using xCurrent to help with real-time remittance payments between Japan and Thailand, with withdrawal at ATMs, avoiding cash retrieval with agents.

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Fintech News

MAY 27, 2024

CBDC for cross-border payments, programmable money, and DeFi Kazakhstan’s Digital Tenge project is pursuing several ambitious goals: intensifying cross-border trade, implementing innovative social and anti-corruption initiatives, and integrating digital assets issued by decentralised finance (DeFi) participants and those issued by the government.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2019

UnionPay International announced earlier in January that it rolled out the UPI Developer, which is a platform to create applications for cross-border payments. In Asia UnionPay cards are accepted by over 41 million merchants and works at more than 2 million ATMs in 170 countries.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Thunes , the cross-border payment infrastructure provider, has launched a new QR Code Payments solution, enabling users of foreign mobile wallets and financial apps to make payments by scanning local merchant’s QR codes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hong Kong has announced its first API exchange, which features more than 200 APIs on offer from 13 banks, geared toward cross-border payments. Among other activities, the platform helps buyers and sellers across countries work with cross-border payments. Among JETCO’s strategic investors is China UnionPay.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With an anticipated surge in foreign travelers, the ability to pay using QR codes, the preferred payment method in China, is crucial for providing a smooth, convenient, and local-like experience when visiting China. Forbes further reports that mobile payments now account for over 85% of all transactions in China. .”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

To allow ATM operators and acquirers to use Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) around the world, Visa is growing its Visa/Plus ATM services and updating its rules. The changes will become effective in mid-April of next year, Vending Times reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

including merchant acquiring, merchant transaction processing, issuer processing and ATM network solutions business units. Stoddart succeeds David Yates, who is transitioning into a senior advisory role focused on real-time payments and national and cross-border payments strategies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Several credit unions, for example, recently formed partnerships designed to share resources, such as ATMs and physical branches. Both credit unions and banks recently gained access to a new set of tools designed to market access to multi-brand ATMs (MBAs). ATM solutions provider FCTI Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

10 seconds (or less) : That’s how long it will take for Standard Chartered to complete real-time cross-border payment for businesses with another major correspondent bank. But there were a lot of other big numbers flying out there this week, too. Luckily, the PYMNTS 11 is here to break it all down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In Asia UnionPay’s card are accepted by more than 41 million merchants and 2 million ATMs throughout 170 countries, noted the Financial Times. In August, to look into blockchain payment applications, Bank of China (BOC) announced it was teaming up with China UnionPay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

83 percent of businesses made a cross-border payment in 2019 , new research from Tipalti conducted by Levvel Research found. Yet, analysts warn, as cross-border B2B payment volumes rise, so does the risk of fraud.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 16, 2024

The PSP license authorizes Paymob to accept and process online and in-store payments in Oman, powered by its local integration with CBO’s secure payment infrastructure, OmanNet. In the five-year period between 2018 and 2022, ATM, POS and e-commerce transactions processed though OmanNet have increased 300%, from 82.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

InstaReM is a cross-border payments company that, according to Nanu, is something of a hybrid. In markets like the Philippines, where cash is 80 percent of the market, figuring out a cash-out solution for the receiver side of the payments is a bridge that must be crossed. Serving Consumers And Business.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 16, 2024

The PSP license authorises Paymob to accept and process online and in-store payments in Oman, powered by its local integration with the Central Bank of Oman ‘s (CBO) secure payment infrastructure, OmanNet. This milestone enables merchants in the Sultanate to accept both local and cross-border payments through Paymob’s gateway.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

more than 280,000 merchant locations in Canada, as well as 90 percent of ATMs also accept it. Because of the move toward QR code payments, UnionPay released its mobile app in December of 2017 allowing for the technology. “ In addition to the growing adoption of Union Pay cards in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Clients will be able to use the global payment infrastructure of Western Union Business Solutions to send payments in 130 different currencies and receive payments in 40 currencies. In the U.K. London-based Volopa has unveiled contactless multi-currency prepaid cards geared toward businesses and consumers, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

That includes saving freelancers from having to pay excessive fees for ATM and other transactions, fees that are often rendered moot by deposits into the workers’ bank accounts. In fact, the emerging opportunity for those direct-to-bank payments is part of what pulled Transpay into cross-border payments for gig and freelance workers.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 31, 2018

fintech hopes its service will help encourage financial inclusion in Mexico, where 65 percent of the population is in the informal economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Singapore’s multi-currency payments startup MoolahGo revealed this week it secured an undisclosed investment from The Lippo Group as part of its Pre-Series A round, according to a company announcement. NorthOne offers users cash and check deposits via ATM, supplier payment, expense software integration, accounting and eCommerce solutions.

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EBizCharge

APRIL 25, 2024

EFTs typically include digital payments such as direct deposits, ATM transactions, and credit and debit card payments. EFTs are an integral part of payments and have many features that make them essential for businesses. What are the different types of EFTs? Most other forms of EFT vary in speed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Chinese consumers spend over $100 billion annually on cross-border eCommerce purchases, according to data from Frost and Sullivan. That $100 billion is itself but a small portion of China’s total cross-border transaction volume, which as of 2016, stood at $6.7 Creating New Cross Border eCommerce Opportunities .

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Finance Magnates

MARCH 26, 2023

To nib the money laundering bud, and to better have a more accurate visibility on suspicious transactions, it is my belief that SAR checks (albeit performed) would most likely also be cross-referenced across the border. Take money from your PayPal and credit it to your ATM card.

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Payments Source

JUNE 22, 2017

The partnership is designed to serve the increasing numbers of tourists visiting Sri Lanka from India, providing payment card options that have local ATM support.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 12, 2024

Auriga , a global software provider for the omnichannel banking and payments industry, has bagged a major new contract with Nationwide to provide a new software solution to run, manage and secure the ATMs installed across its UK branch network. Allica Bank has announced partnerships with accounting software platforms Sage and Xero.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Earnings season is upon us, offering insight into business spending among payment network giants such as Visa , Mastercard and WEX — across cards and, of course, cross-border payments. Other earnings reports showed continued growth in commercial payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The new tool streamlines employee spending data, like mileage costs, employee reimbursements and ATM withdrawals, according to the post. Pleo is offering new services bundled under the brand Pleo Pocket that will make it easier for businesses to centralize financial information, according to a blog post.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

ATM cards, Febreze and the FICO score were all around for a while languishing in relative obscurity until something happened to push them into mass consciousness. It’s not enough to say that installment lending is a sure bet as the next big thing — all good payments peeps know there is no such thing as a sure thing.

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