Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 28 January 2019
Featuring LatAm, ING, Alipay and Square.
Square
eBay sellers to get access to Square Capital
Sellers in the US could get access to funding up to the value of $100,000.
Square no longer angling for US bank charter
Plans to apply later to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Square acquires crypto licence in NYC
Gearing up for launch of Cash App, which includes crypto exchange services.
Square boxing clever for slow cash flow
Releases its new Instant Deposit service for UK businesses.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 15 November 2017
Following on from yesterday’s (14 November) news, here’s our latest blockchain and Bitcoin round-up. Featuring Trustology, Accenture, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Association of Banks in Singapore, Square and London Block Exchange. Another day, another new firm. Trustology has emerged from stealth and revealed it is building a peer-to-peer network of smart contract compute services. Trusted […]
Visa Direct expands to Europe
Visa has unveiled its European debut of Visa Direct, its real-time payments platform that allows for person-to-person (P2P), business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) payments.
The Monday mindset: 4 September 2017
Fintech zeitgeist! This week Loraine DeBonis, editor-in-chief of Banking Technology’s sister site Paybefore, muses on all the money changing hands in the payments industry.
Square launches in UK
San Francisco-based payments specialist Square has landed in the UK. This is the fifth market for Square, following the US, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Visa Direct expands real-time payments in US
Visa says more banks and companies in the US have chosen Visa Direct to expand their real-time payment services, including PayPal, Fiserv and Square. Visa Direct is a payments platform designed to allow financial institutions, developers and partners to offer real-time person-to-person (P2P) payments and business disbursements such as insurance claims payments, contractor payments, tax […]
Square comes around to Australia
US-based Square’s payment processing and hardware is now available in Australia. Operating internationally since 2012, Australia marks the fourth market for Square, joining the United States, Canada and Japan. Square says its chip card reader is the “smallest” payment card reader on the Australian market. Sellers can accept card payments via Visa, MasterCard and American […]
