Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 13, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, Even though I've been blogging on financial markets for several years now, it's always great to get…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has announced that it will scale up its capital market payment service by allowing securities trading payment between accounts at different banks. As of today, November 11, the new service will mitigate risks in the payment system and improve the efficiency of the process between the capital market and…
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LeapRate Exclusive… Yoav Dror is the CEO of PumaPay, one of the biggest ICOs in 2018, raising over $117m. With an MBA and over 20 years of experience in heading online high-transaction companies, Yoav is now leading the team developing PumaPay’s blockchain-based PullPayment protocol, enabling businesses to easily accept cryptocurrency payments. Yoav joins Leaprate today…
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The following article was exclusively prepared for LeapRate by the Match-Trade Technologies team. Last year brought significant changes in the financial market, especially for unregulated brokers. For instance, VISA and Mastercard blocked them from using their services. And now, one of the biggest challenges they have to face is to provide their customers with convenient and effective…
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Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, announced today that it has teamed up with TouchBistro, a global iPad-based POS solution for restaurants and pubs. Through the partnership, Barclaycard’s payment solution is now integrated with TouchBistro, unlocking improved speed and accuracy of the bill-paying process for both restaurants and…
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Liquidity and tech provider of solutions for the crypto and FX industry, B2Broker, just announced that it has integrated 5 new payment systems into its Trader’s Room platform. The new payment systems, Ikajo, PayRetailers, Simplex, Einstein and GreenBox make the total number of payment systems integrated by default to more than 20, through which customers…
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Montreal-based payment technology firm and provider of global payment solutions, Nuvei, announced that it has completed the acquisition of SafeCharge International Group Limited for approximately US $889 million. LeapRate reminds that the Financial Conduct Authority has approved the proposed change in control of SafeCharge Financial Services Limited last month. The acquisition creates a global payment…
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According to global payments provider Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS)'s latest research, over half of consumers (57%) would use voice-activated technology, such as Amazon’s Alexa, to pay for low-value goods and services. One in ten (11%) have already used voice to confirm their identity when purchasing goods online. Commenting on the research, Danny Chazonoff, COO, Paysafe…
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Payment systems provider Paysafe Group (LON:PAYS) announced that it has teamed up with the world’s biggest video streaming platform YouTube. LeapRate reminds that Paysafe and Google formed a partnership last year, when paysafecard was announced as a payment method across the Google Play store, in June 2018. Few months later, Google added the paysafecard payment…
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Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, informed that it has teamed up with the blockchain and cryptocurrency products developer The White Company. The partnership aims to deliver the benefits of global payments to emerging markets, allowing Paxful customers to exchange their bitcoin into Visa or MasterCard prepaid cards in 10 fiat currencies (USD, GBP, EUR, INR,…
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