Blockchain payment system Terra expands across Southeast Asia and Singapore LeapRate

May 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain payment system Terra expands across Southeast Asia and Singapore

The next generation blockchain payment system, Terra, announced that it has earned a strategic investment from LuneX Ventures, the crypto-focused investment arm of Golden Gate Ventures. This investment will enable Terra to further its expansion through Southeast Asia and Singapore. Terra’s growth owes to an ever-growing eCommerce alliance across Asia. This alliance holds a collective annual…

April 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

SquaredDirect launches payments through Neteller & Skrill

The Direct Market Access (DMA) brokerage company SquaredDirect has just announced that now accepts payments through Neteller and Skrill. SquaredDirect's clients can now experience one of the easiest, fastest and safest ways to transfer their money online through Neteller. With Skrill, they can transfer their money to and from their accounts with no mark-ups. Transfers…

Berkshire Bank offers real-time payments with Finastra

April 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Corporate Traveller accepts bitcoin and bitcoin cash payments via BitPay

UK provider of business travel management services to SME companies Corporate Traveller announced that it has teamed up with global blockchain payment provider BitPay. Corporate Traveller can now accept bitcoin and bitcoin cash payments from its SME customers for business travel bookings. Andy Hegley, UK General Manager, Corporate Traveller commented on the news: We have…

March 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

æternity and SatoshiPay partner to support smart contracts and for faster transaction scalability

æternity, an ecosystem for blockchain developers, yesterday revealed that it has secured shareholding in SatoshiPay having participated in the company’s latest funding round. Therefore, æternity will integrate the latter’s micropayments platform in its efforts to build a full stack value chain that serves blokchain developers. SatoshiPay’s latest funding round attracted the following investors: Daniel Masters…

March 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

MoneyNetint launches an online payment app for tourists who get traffic tickets

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…

March 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

2gether and Visa partner to make crypto payments accepted across Europe

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…

February 28, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

PayPal expands its small business loans initiative to Mexico

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…

February 26, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Ethiopian Airlines extends partnership with Paysafe

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…

February 25, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Sirin Labs partners with Simplex to allow fiat-to-crypto conversion on FINNEY

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…

Digix lists on Korean exchange to boost its local market presence

February 22, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digix partners with Blucon to allow Koreans to make purchases in Gold

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…

Category: Payments