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Magensa Payment Gateway Completes Level 3 Certification with Global Payments Canada, Extending Services to the Canadian Market
Magensa's platform brings a broad set of capabilities to Canadian ISVs and enterprises, including full eCommerce capabilities supporting in-app and web-app Apple Pay and Google Pay™, tokenization services, and Magensa Portals for boarding…
LanDynamix highlights growing scourge of payment fraud in SA
LanDynamix Founder and CEO, Peter Clarke. Payment fraud is a critical and growing crisis in South Africa. It is costing billions of rands annually and showing massive spikes in digital banking and mobile app fraud. Criminals are increasingly…
Secret tape recordings and 'sham' payments: the Liberals' internal ideological war laid bare
If you ever thought branch stacking was a harmless game played by young, ambitious political operatives seeking to advance within the party, think again. On Monday, on the first day of the corruption watchdog's inquiry into operation Rosny, an…
PayPal Expands Into Stablecoins and AI Payments
Latest News PublishedJul 28, 2026 PayPal highlighted growth of stablecoins and AI-driven payment tools in Q2 while reporting $8.68 billion in revenue and an $81 million crypto-related earnings adjustment. Global payments giant PayPal highlighted…
Elon Musk's X Forays Into Digital Payment Services In US
While Elon Musk's net worth has plunged below the 700 billion mark, the tech billionaire's micro-blogging platform X has forayed into the digital payment services vertical via X Money. This feature allows users access to banking and financial…
Embattled LIV Golf tour asks to defer payment to Adelaide golf club
Posted Tue 28 Jul 2026 at 3:14pm Kooyonga Golf Club in Adelaide's west is scheduled to host LIV Golf Adelaide in 2027 before the tour moves to a newly redeveloped North Adelaide Golf Course. LIV has asked for an extension on a payment to Kooyonga…
Can you have debt forgiven before you miss a payment?
Household budgets have been under increasing amounts of pressure recently as sticky inflation, elevated borrowing costs and record levels of consumer debt squeeze many people's budgets to their limits. That, in turn, is putting many borrowers at…
Jim Cramer says to buy this payments company after its post-earnings pullback
CNBC's Jim Cramer said American Express' post-earnings sell-off has created a buying opportunity. He said management's decision to reinvest profits rather than ramp up buybacks will create more value for shareholders. CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday…
Is your SASSA grant under review? Expect your August payment to be delayed
SASSA informs beneficiaries about delayed August grant payments over ongoing reviews. The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has warned thousands of social grant beneficiaries whose grants are currently under review that they will not…
YMCA asks Polk County to delay payments on $6.4M loan again
The YMCA of Greater Des Moines is seeking another year without payments on its $6.4 million Polk County loan, with the possibility of two additional annual extensions. Why it matters: Polk County taxpayers could wait years longer for repayment…
Alberta out-of-pocket payments for private medical testing beginning this week
Beginning Friday, Albertans will be able to pay out-of-pocket to bypass medical referral for diagnostic screening tests like an MRI or an ultrasound. The announcement by Premier Danielle Smith follows up on legislation passed by her United…
DWP confirms full list of 25 skin conditions that qualify for big weekly payment
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed the full list of 25 skin conditions that qualify claimants for £114 weekly payments of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). There are a total of 27,391 PIP claims for the various skin…
Google Play services update brings seamless wrist payments and a revamped storefront feed
Google's latest System update brings Play services v26.29 and Play Store v52.5 with upgrades for Wallet, Wear OS, Play Games, and content discovery. Play services' latest version adds new Maps and Wear OS APIs for developers alongside unspecified…
Musicians say ECMA payments delayed after May awards, some still unpaid
Some artists who performed as part of the East Coast Music Association's annual awards in Sydney, N.S., this year are speaking out over payment issues. Global News has heard from artists who say they had to wait more than two months for payment…
Real-Time Payments Expose the Cost of Legacy Technology
After eight years of industry outreach and infrastructure investment, instant payments are becoming familiar enough that businesses increasingly understand the product. “We are successful in awareness,” Cheryl Gurz, vice president of…
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