The central bank of Brazil has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp payment service within ten days of its roll out, citing competition issues in the ...

Zopa, the 15-year-old peer-to-peer lending company, is announcing that it has been awarded its full U.K. bank licence, as it gears up to launch ...

Mastercard is accelerating its open banking strategy through the $825 million acquisition of real-time financial data aggregation service Finicity. Salt Lake City-based Finicity ...

French fintech firm ID Distribution announced a joint venture with local real estate firm Groupe JRI, amining to tokenize various properties in Paris. ...

Splitit lets users spread out their payments at checkout, both in brick and mortar shops and on e-commerce websites, through an interest-free installment ...

Access Bank Plc has unveiled the second edition of its Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton programme, aimed at supporting female entrepreneurs. The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 ...

The German payments firm said in a brief statement that Braun had resigned “with immediate effect” and that James Freis would take his ...

Visa has launched its new “Where You Shop Matters’ initiative that aims to champion and enable entrepreneurs in Nigeria while encouraging consumers to ...

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com soared nearly 6% on its Hong Kong debut, after raising almost US$4 billion in an initial public offering that ...

The move comes as China pushes ahead with opening its multi-trillion-dollar financial market The China Securities Regulatory Commission says the approval will bring ...