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

The State Bank of Pakistan has extended a number of measures taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 from their original deadline of 30 June / 30 September, to 31 December.

Debt relief measures by micro-loan providers in Cambodia are failing to alleviate the serious financial burdens on indebted families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With Mastercard Cross-Border Services, financial service providers can seamlessly process digital payments leveraging its global network through a single connection, the company said.

Cash transfers from Yemenis abroad to their country have declined by 80 percent in the first four months of 2020, Oxfam announced on Thursday.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, online purchase transactions have been on the rise in countries including Brazil and Mexico.

The value of transactions on the Unified Payments Interface, a platform created by India’s largest banks in 2016, reached an all-time high last month as people feared to handle banknotes amid the pandemic.

As the world continues to face economic turmoil resulting from the COVID-19, communities in Zambia are turning to informal savings groups to cushion the impact of the pandemic.

A federal stimulus program to combat the recent economic downturn is pushing more community banks to embrace financial technology partnerships.

A roundup of the most relevant coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past week