Cross-border payments and real-time financial information will become more accessible to more than 32 million customers in 35 countries across Africa.  Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of pan-African…

Visa Flexible Credential (VFC), previously available only to Olive card users in Japan, is expanding its geographic availability to the United States and the United Arab Emirates.  Visa announced a…

Swiss bank UBS developed and successfully tested a blockchain-based payment solution designed to increase transparency and security of cross-border payments and speed up their processing. UBS, the world’s largest private…

Last year, 5.6 million households in the U.S. lacked access to banking services. It’s in this environment that the use of cryptocurrencies is most prevalent.  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…

SOFTSWISS analysts found that cryptocurrency is now a central payment method in the iGaming industry, driving growth in emerging markets and strengthening its role in the sector’s future.  SOFTSWISS, a…

Layer 2 protocol Immutable introduced technology that enables in-game payments without interrupting gameplay.  The Immutable team introduced Passport Pre-Approved Transactions, a feature that allows blockchain transactions to be processed within…

Mastercard Move and Buna joined forces to enhance and facilitate cross-border payments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.  Mastercard officials announced that the company joined regional cross-border…

Detroit announced the start of a large-scale program to modernize and improve the city’s payment infrastructure, part of which will be the connection of PayPal to process cryptocurrency payments.  Detroit’s…

Mastercard launched a new service that allows cardholders to use digital wallets to pay for purchases at millions of merchants in Asia Pacific.  Mastercard announced the launch of Pay Local…