The new online payments system, Raast, has been launched to support women who might have been financially marginalized or unable to access modern financial services for a long time.

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp will let users in India send money through the app starting Friday provided that they have a bank account and debit card in India.

dLocal is growing its payment network to include three countries in Central America and the Caribbean, while SafetyPay has collaborated with Latin America’s Rappi.

The region’s financial institutions and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payments.

Qi Card mobile money offering provides Iraqis with digital means for safe and secure financial transactions.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software and solutions, announced the winners of the 2020 ACI Innovation Awards.

Brazil’s central bank has authorized testing of payments via Facebook Inc’s messaging service WhatsApp in the country easing an outright ban on the service imposed last month.

As governments issue movement restrictions to help curb COVID-19, businesses accelerated their digital transformation which includes, among others, digital payments.

With the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the need for new and evolving digital payment services has become even more urgent.

The body will try to influence the EU laws for the payments industry.