Mobile Payments

Mobile payments solution QFPay has reportedly raised $20m in funding to support its international expansion plans.

Latin-American Kushki Pagos just announced it has bought company QVO, a platform that gives SMEs access to online payment solutions.

The South Korean developer of mobile finance platform toss has closed a $64m Series F round. This brings Viva Republica’s valuation past the $2.2bn valuation mark.

The EU is enforcing new rules for online payments on September 14. For creative RegTech and FinTech businesses, the new legislation could present massive opportunities.

Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank is a new venture supported by Microsoft and Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe, the communications group.

KOHO, the Canadian challenger bank, has announced a new cashback programme and a new merchant-specific rewards.

Real-time payments is quickly picking up in popularity and is no longer optional for banks.

Carbon, an FinTech startup based in Nigeria, has posted its financials on its website despite most other African new enterprises would be reluctant to do so.

The Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the tech titan is launching its credit card Apple Card in August during an earnings call discussing the business’s third quarter earnings.

Mobile payments in teh US have yet to really take hold of the US market, but millenials might be changing things.