The number of people driving while on vacation has grown exponentially in recent years, which has seen the number of cars being rented annually rise to about 120 million vehicles. This trend has resulted in 322,000 monthly Google searches (in 17 major countries including the UK, the USA and Hong Kong) regarding ‘online fines payments…
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2gether recently announced that it is expanding into the rest of Europe after a successful beta release in Spain. The company has retained A.T. Kearney and KPMG as its chief advisors during the launch of its Visa-branded 2gether card, which allows users to pay with crypto all over Europe. The new card aims to make…
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Online payment giant PayPal launched its Working Capital initiative in 2013 as an alternative method for business to access working capital much faster than through traditional means. Many small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients embraced the program and since then the company has advanced more than $6 billion in loans to over 170,000 businesses in…
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Ethiopian Airlines today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) into eleven additional countries across Europe. Now more of the airline’s customers will be able to pay for flights using Skrill, NETELLER and Rapid Transfer, powered by Paysafe. Ethiopian Airlines teamed up with the payment services company back in 2017 and…
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Sirin Labs, the creator of the FINNEY™ smartphone, which is built on blockchain, recently revealed that it has partnered with Simplex, a company that provides incorruptible online payment solutions. The partnership is billed as a major milestone in the journey toward the global acceptance and use of cryptocurrencies. The collaboration will allow FINNEY™ user to…
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Digix today revealed that it has partnered with Blucon to allow Blucon’s Korean users to pay for their daily purchases in gold. The deal will allow Digix’s gold-backed coins (DGX) to be accessed via the Blucon Card, which will enable Korean users of the card to pay for their everyday goods and services using gold-backed…
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Swych, a mobile gifting platform, announced that it will begin accepting payment in a variety of cryptocurrencies. Starting today, consumers will be able to pay for gift cards from 600+ retail partners using both fiat and crypto. Swych now provides an alternative for crypto-holders to exchange their digital assets for instant cash in the form…
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AERGO today announced that it had partnered with SatoshiPay to improve the latter’s existing micropayments system. AERGO is the developer of a hybrid open-source blockchain used by commercial dApps, while SatoshiPay is a micropayments company. AERGO’s platform is among the few that allow dApp developers to incorporate fiat payments into crypto-payments platforms. SatoshiPay will use…
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TransferTo, a company that provides mobile payments and top-up solutions across borders, today revealed a complete rebrand creating two separate companies with different brands, identities and logos. The rebrand is effective immediately and the two companies will be known as Thunes and DTOne. DT One will take over the company’s rewards and mobile top-up business…
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), and a self-made billionaire in his own right, has taken to the crypto endorsement trail of late, spreading the news that Bitcoin may soon become the currency of the Internet, as its Lightning Network enhancements revive its acceptance as a global payment medium…
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