Digital Payments
Ingenico and Premise Partner to Provide Cash-Driven Merchants Digital Payment Solutions
Embedded banking platform Premise has partnered with French payments company Ingenico to provide digital payment solutions to cash-driven micro merchants across the Philippines. Premise will deploy Ingenico’s Android payment terminal to enable cashless payment methods, and link to its cloud-based
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How to Build End-to-End Digital Trust for Payments and Financial Services
Did you know that in 2020, 84% of businesses in Asia Pacific reported losses in revenue due to payment fraud? Or that synthetic identity theft is growing despite strong Know Your Customer (KYC) practices — because, to date, there has
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MoneyGram Launches Global Crypto-To-Cash Service in the Philippines
MoneyGram has partnered the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) with to initiate the roll out of its crypto-to-cash service that is now available in key remittance markets, including the Philippines, Canada, the U.S., and Kenya for the first wave of users.
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Which Is The Most Popular Finance App in Philippines?
In the Philippines, consumers were found to be spending much more time on digital bank Tonik than any other finance app. This is according to a new report by Data.ai, an app analytics startup formerly known as App Annie, that
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Philippines’ Payment Infrastructure Undergoes Transformative Change
In the Philippines, the banking community is undergoing a major transformation to its payment infrastructure, a movement triggered by the convergence of several key drivers including changing customer behaviors, new regulations and advances in technology. During a recent webinar hosted
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Fintech Takes Lion’s Share of Philippines Tech Funding for Second Consecutive Year
The Philippines’ fintech industry is blossoming on the back of surging funding activity, a conducive regulatory environment, and rapid adoption of digital financial services, a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Foxmont Capital Partners shows. In 2021,
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Fintech Alliance.PH Set to Bolster BSP’s New Financial Inclusion Strategy
The Fintech Alliance.PH remains committed to bolster the Philippines’ government bold moves to ensure more of the unbanked and underserved population will be onboarded into the formal financial system in the next six years. In a hybrid live and online
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ASEAN Fintech Group Expands Into the Philippines With Acquisition of Jazzypay
ASEAN Fintech Group (“AFG” or the “Group”), a venture corporation that specializes in accelerating fintech adoption through accretive value has acquired JazzyPay Inc valued at US$1.8m. JazzyPay is a digital payments provider that allows businesses of various sizes and types
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BSP Encourages Public to Use Digital Wallets for Holiday Gift Giving
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is encouraging the public to use digital wallets when sending cash gifts this holiday season. The central bank said that using digital money as an alternative means of giving cash gifts is highly recommended
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How Is the Philippines Gearing Up to Be a Digital-Heavy and Cash-Light Society?
The Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Benjamin E. Diokno has a vision of transforming the Philippines into a digital-heavy and cash-light society to help achieve inclusive growth. The vision, which he shared during an online forum of the
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