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.

JCB Co Ltd (JCB) is leveraging Asia’s leading fintech player, Soft Space Sdn Bhd’s (Soft Space) technological expertise to develop the Tap on Mobile program that capitalizes on Android smartphones.

Decentralized peer-to-peer crypto trading platform CryptoLocally and blockchain-powered on-demand digital finance and payment platform, Sesacash, will be working together to address the many challenges confronting African nations in the financial sector.