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Pay10 rolls out global payments platform with new campaign
Pay10 has launched ‘Pay10 World', a cross-border payments platform for Indian businesses, alongside a campaign titled 'No Borders. Just Business.' The launch follows the company receiving authorisation under the Reserve Bank of India's…
JazzCash Onboards Its 1 Millionth Merchant on Pakistan's National Digital Payments Platform, Advancing the Country's Cashless Economy
Dubai, New York and Islamabad, March 30, 2026 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that its subsidiary JazzCash has onboarded its 1 millionth Raast QR-enabled merchant, marking a major…
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April 2026 payment dates for universal credit, benefits & pensions with Easter change
April is around the corner, and with it a new financial year that promises to bring lots of change to households across the UK. Cost of living concerns have grown as conflict in the Middle East suddenly threatens to hit Britain's economy. The…
Debit card remains most popular means of payment, says SNB
“The debit card remains the most frequently used means of payment, followed by cash and payment apps,” the SNB wrote in its report published on Monday. “A large proportion of the population that carries cash has both debit…
Why Rezolve AI (RZLV) Is Betting Big on Reward Loyalty to Scale Commerce Media and Payments
Rezolve AI PLC (NASDAQ:RZLV) is one of the penny stocks with potential to rise 1000 percent. Rezolve AI said on February 10 that it had agreed to acquire Reward Loyalty UK Limited in an all-cash deal valued at $230 million, with the purchase funded…
The Higher the XRP Price, The Cheaper It Is for Payments: Ripple CTO Emeritus
Ripple's former Chief Technology Officer (CTO), David Schwartz, has stated that a higher XRP price would make the payment system more efficient and cheaper to operate. Schwartz's comments come as a clarification to a post he made in 2017, as…
Women Creators Reclaim Ownership Through Web3 Payment Rails
Opinion by: Ashna Vaghela, chief customer officer at Mercuryo, and Vi Powils, CEO at World of Women. For decades, the financial industry has treated creativity as a high-risk hobby. If you're a woman building a global brand from a laptop, there is…
Assessment update for people on Adult Disability Payment or other benefits
Findings from a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request confirmed that ‘assessments' for people claiming disability benefits in Scotland technically no longer exist. People applying for Adult, Child or Pension Age Disability Payment, may…
DWP confirms why one State Pension payment isn't rising from April
The 25p ‘addition at age 80' payment is staying frozen at its current rate A State Pension payment given to pensioners aged over 80 who retired before 2016 will not be going up from April. The State Pension increases at the start of each new…
No More OTPs for UPI? Why the RBI's New Digital Payment Rules Starting April 1 Change Everything
India's digital payment landscape is set for a major security overhaul starting April 1, 2026. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is implementing a new principle-based framework for transaction authentication. The move, which is aimed at curbing cyber…
Stablecoin payments go 'invisible' in Southeast Asia as crypto card business surges
When a tourist from Bangkok taps to pay in Singapore using their Thai e-wallet, few stop to consider what powers that transaction. But for Singapore-based StraitsX, the company behind the stablecoin infrastructure running in the background, that…
Singapore's StraitsX Sees Surge in Stablecoin Payment Volume
Between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the same quarter last year, that volume surged 40-fold, Co-founder and CEO Tianwei Liu told CoinDesk Sunday (March 29). The number of cards issued saw an even sharper uptick, increasing 83-fold during the same…
Working While Collecting Social Security? It Could Negatively Impact Your Monthly Payment This Year, but Provide a Boost Next Year.
About 40% of Social Security recipients will work at some point after claiming retirement benefits, according to research from the Center for Retirement Research. Understanding exactly how working while collecting Social Security can impact your…
Why do you need payment orchestration: Sensus explainer
Every online business eventually hits the same wall. Sales grow, markets expand, new payment methods get added – but at some point conversion rates drops. There are a whole lot of reasons for that, but Sensus team insists that major share of…
Apple's Irish subsidiary fined $516,110 for making payments to a sanctioned Russian streaming platform
Apple's Irish subsidiary has been fined £390,000 (about US $516,110) by the UK government for making payments to Okka, a sanctioned Russian streaming platform in 2022, reports MacRumors. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)…
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