Partnership enables community financial institutions to offer Paze; Star One Credit Union among the first to launch
Monad Buys Portal to Boost Stablecoin and Payments Strategy
July 10, 20254 min
Monad Foundation, an organization dedicated to the development, adoption, and growth of the Monad blockchain network, today announced its acquisition of Portal Labs, the team behind Portal, an embedded stablecoin wallet infrastructure platform. The acquisition will bring a full-stack payments solution to Monad, a high throughput Layer-1 blockchain, and amplify Portal’s mission to make stablecoin-powered payments effortless for web2 and web3 businesses. Leadership evolution: Portal CEO and Co-Founder Raj Parekh will join the Monad Foundation as Head of Payments and...
Paysafe Launches PagoEfectivo Wallet in Peru
July 10, 20254 min
New digital wallet will offer instant payouts, code payments and P2P transfers; Carlos Alcántara is the new brand ambassador; PagoEfectivo Universe opens in Lima
Curve Pay, Thales Partner to Secure Digital Wallets on iPhone
July 10, 20254 min
This collaboration between Curve and Thales provides iOS users with greater control, flexibility, autonomy and digital-security for in-store contactless payments and digital wallets
Almond FinTech Grows APAC Network via Ample Transfers Deal
July 9, 20258 min
Almond FinTech, the two-time CrossTech Innovation Award winner for “Crypto Payments Solution in Cross-Border Payments,” announced today that Ample Transfers, a 27-year-old remittance provider based in Singapore, has partnered with Almond’s proprietary technology to optimize its internal treasury and settlement operations for transfers from Singapore to Indonesia. This partnership marks a key milestone in Almond FinTech’s strategic expansion into Southeast Asia’s cross-border money flows. Award-Winning Technology Expands Across APAC with New Singapore—Indonesia Corridor The Singapore—Indonesia...
Shift4 Completes Acquisition of Global Blue
July 7, 20257 min
The acquisition enhances Shift4’s unified commerce capabilities and extends its reach to hundreds of thousands of retail and hospitality locations utilizing Global Blue’s specialized technology solutions supporting cross-border luxury shopping.
Worldpay Expands Global Reach with Thai Market Entry
July 7, 20254 min
Global merchants leverage Worldpay’s leading APAC presence to accelerate growth Domestic settlement and local APMs enhance shopper experiences and streamline merchant operations
A groundbreaking whitepaper just released, titled The Future of Global Payments & Fourth Generation Payment Networks (4GPN), is setting the tone for a new era in the fintech industry. Jointly developed by Thunderbird School of Global Management and Wiseasy, the paper explores how transformative technologies, including IoT, blockchain, cryptocurrency and cloud computing, are converging to reshape the digital payments landscape, with Fourth Generation Payment Networks (4GPN) at the center of this transformation. According to the latest industry reports, the...
June Small Biz Sales Up Yearly, but Down from May
July 3, 20255 min
Fiserv Small Business Index declines two points to 148 Small business sales grew +4.4% year over year, but declined -1.4% month over month
The “United States Prepaid Card and Digital Wallet Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook – Q2 2025 Update” report has been added to Research And Markets.com’s offering. The United States prepaid card and digital wallet market is on a continuous growth path, projected to increase by 11% annually, reaching US$ 749.46 billion by 2025. Experiencing a CAGR of 12.9% from 2020 to 2024, the market is anticipated to further expand at a CAGR of 9.1% through 2029, potentially...