March 29, 2024

Web and Technology News

Alza emerges from stealth to offer affordable and inclusive financial tools to immigrants

Arturo Villanueva spent over four years on Stripe’s financial partnerships team, where he led partnerships with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and regional banks across Latin America, struck strategic deals with JPMorgan Chase, Wells-Fargo, and Ba…

Finofo secures funding to challenge traditional forex with automated solution

Exchange rate volatility has long been a major headache for cross-border businesses. Historically, companies have sought protection by purchasing foreign exchange (FX) insurance or options, but most of these financial products operate like giant “black boxes”, Finofo‘s co-founder and CFO Charles Maranda told TechCrunch in an interview. Maranda’s company aims to provide more transparency and […]

Eric Schmidt backs Keeta, a startup working to make cross-border payments ‘as easy as Venmo’

The core technology is a proprietary ledger capable of processing more than 50 million transactions per second and a network of interconnected real-time payment rails.

Eric Schmidt backs Keeta, a startup working to make cross-border payments ‘as easy as Venmo’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Bitcoin and the Lightning Network are moving payments globally

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Jack Mallers, the founder and CEO of Strike, a bitcoin-based payment network and financial app that is trying to expand the reach of cross-border payments and remittance […]

Bitcoin and the Lightning Network are moving payments globally by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay

The rise in open banking and payment services like India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow means lower costs for businesses, as well as new payment options for hundreds of millions of customers in emerging markets who don’t own credit cards. Tazapay was created to combine both card and real-time payment methods as a full-stack service for […]

Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Thunes integrates with Visa Direct’s digital payments network

Cross-border payments startup Thunes is partnering with Visa, in a move that will add more than 1.5 billion new endpoints to Visa Direct’s digital payments network. This enables many more consumers and small businesses to send funds to markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where digital wallets are often the default payment method. Based […]

Thunes integrates with Visa Direct’s digital payments network by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Thunes integrates with Visa Direct’s digital payments network

Cross-border payments startup Thunes is partnering with Visa, in a move that will add more than 1.5 billion new endpoints to Visa Direct’s digital payments network. This enables many more consumers and small businesses to send funds to markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where digital wallets are often the default payment method. Based […]

Thunes integrates with Visa Direct’s digital payments network by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch