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SBI customers face issues with online transactions April 01, 2021 × Customers took to social media to report issues with logging into the bank’s flagship mobile app, YONO Customers of State Bank of India faced disruption in online transactions on Thursday after the bank undertook maintenance activities. Customers took to social media to report issues with logging into the bank’s flagship mobile app, YONO. Users were also having problems with payments using the Unified Payments Interface (...

LEAWOOD, Kan., March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), a leading global financial technology solutions and payments provider, announced today it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Piraeus Bank Merchant Acquiring (PBMA) business of Piraeus Bank (Bank), the largest bank in Greece1. Included within this transaction is a separately negotiated commercial agreement for a long-term strategic partnership with Piraeus Bank for collaborative product distributi...

Visa expands Practical Business Skills 11:00 | 13/03/2021 Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has announced the expansion of Practical Business Skills, a global digital platform delivering free education resources to help small- and medium-sized business owners make confident, informed decisions to grow their business. With more than 50 online learning modules, the Visa Practical Business Skills platform addresses the needs at various stages of the...

External | what does this mean? This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. MyPinPad launches in Hong Kong 10 March 2021 Source: MYPINPAD MYPINPAD, a leader in PCI certified payments software solutions together with Hong Kong’s leading payment terminal manufacturer and payment solution provider, SPECTRA Technologies, today announced the launch of a software-based contactless paym...

March 10, 2021 Flutterwave, an Africa-focused payment technology company, has raised $170 million in a Series C round, positioning itself to further connect and capitalize on the continent’s thriving yet highly fragmented digital payment landscape. The round now values the company at more than $1 billion. It was led by the US-based investment firms Avenir Growth Capital and Tiger Global Management, with participation from new and existing investors including DST Global and Salesforce Ventures...

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Responding to the outages felt across banking and e-commerce services, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has put on hold implementation of its regulations to curb unsolicited commercial communication. Users failed to receive text messages including one time passwords for online transactions , and banks attributed the glitches to Trai’s new regulations which came into effect on Monday. The regulator has now given service providers another week to adhere to the norms, though ba...

Vodafone Egypt plans to complete the acquisition of 20% stakes in two digital payment companies, Bee and Masary, within a maximum of three months, an official at the company said on Wednesday. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ebtikar, which owns the two firms, to buy the stakes, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Ebtikar is a subsidiary of Egypt’s MM Group.

United States Faster and Real-time Payments Market Report 2021: Pace of Adoption Accelerated in the U.S. During 2020 March 05, 2021 04:38 ET | Source: Research and Markets Research and Markets Dublin, IRELAND ResearchAndMarkets.coms offering. The pace of real-time and faster payments adoption accelerated in the U.S. during 2020 as explored in new research, U.S. Faster Payments Forecast: The Volume Begins to Build. Solutions such as debit push payment...

By Saritha Rai, Technology giants Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Google and credit-card providers Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are among those vying for unprecedented access to India’s burgeoning digital retail payments market. The companies are part of four consortia preparing to apply for licenses to operate retail payments and settlement systems in the country, people