WhatsApp appoints ex-Amazon executive to head India payments division
Manesh Mahatme has over 17 years of experience in digital financial services and payments across Citibank, Airtel Money and Amazon.
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Chip shortage could hit debit and credit cards supply, industry body says
The widely reported bottlenecks in chip supply have become so critical that payment card manufacturers face increasing difficulties in obtaining
Read moreAs digital payments rise amid COVID-19, experts urge users to take precautions
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital payments in India and at the same time there has been
Read morePaytm seeks shareholder approval for $1.6 bln sale of new stock
Indian Digital payments firm Paytm is seeking shareholder approval to sell up to ₹120 billion rupees ($1.62 billion) in new
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IIT-Madras offers expertise to boost digital money transactions
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) are working on voice-based solutions in regional languages to boost digital money
Read moreSpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission next year
Musk said on Twitter in April that SpaceX was going to put a “literal Dogecoin on the literal moon” (Subscribe
Read moreChina digital currency trials show threat to Alipay, WeChat duopoly
China’s development of a sovereign digital currency, which is far ahead of similar initiatives in other major economies, looks increasingly
Read moreApple launches its contactless payment service in South Africa
The use of digital finance and payments systems has surged in South Africa and elsewhere as the coronavirus crisis has
Read moreSoftBank’s internet business to invest $4.7 bln in tech over five years
Z Holdings is a consolidated subsidiary of SoftBank. Naverwas the previous majority owner of Line. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache
Read moreTwitter may let users receive payments from followers, may hold bitcoin
Twitter top boss Jack Dorsey, who is also the chief executive of payments firm Square Inc, is a known bitcoin
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