Tag "mobile payments"
Filipino Startup PaidUp Seeks To Reinvent How We Order And Pay For Food And Beverages
Mobile payments app PaidUp seeks to reinvent how people order and shop for food, drinks and services by allowing consumers to prepay their purchases in return for exclusive discounts, rewards and special services. The first pre-pay mobile wallet app in
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Fintech (Startup) Of The Month: TransferTo, A Cross-Border Mobile Payments Network
TransferTo is a leading B2B mobile payment network and airtime hub serving the likes of Western Union, PayPal, Xoom, 7 Eleven, WorldRemit, Tigo mobile money and MoneyGram. TransferTo interconnects financial institutions and mobile operators globally, linking over 4.5 billion mobile
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Digital Technologies And Fintechs to Drive Financial Inclusion in Asia
With an estimated 2 billion adults and 200 million micro, small and midsize businesses (MSMEs) worldwide considered as unbanked or underbanked, financial inclusion has emerged as a critical development challenge and an opportunity for fintechs. The unbanked are those who
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Customers Willing to Shift to Mobile Money for International Transfers
Mobile international money transfer services have significant potential to gain traction and market share as 92% of consumers are willing to ditch traditional money transmitter services for a mobile method, according to a new survey. Entitled ‘Mobile Financial Services Consumer
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Fintech Money Transfer Startups Eye Vietnamese Remittance Market
Vietnam currently stands as one of the top ten remittance recipient countries in the world. In 2014, more than US$12 billion have been remitted to the country, making it the 9th largest remittance recipient, according to a World Bank report.
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Apple Pay Teams Up With Amex To Launch In Singapore
Apple is partnering with American Express to bring Apple Pay to “key global markets,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the earnings call for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2015. According to Amex, Apple’s digital wallet and mobile payment service
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