Loading...

African digital payment startup looks to expand in Asia

Image

 Insights

17-May-18 BitPesa, a Kenya-based digital payment startup using blockchain technology is seeking to partner with more Asian companies. Currently about about 10% of the transactions it handles involve countries in Asia. [image: Getty Images / Nikkei Asian Review]

Read More

A 'miracle' in India will disrupt e-wallets and incumbents

Image

 Insights

11-Apr-18 In Mar-18, the Indian National Payments Corporation reported that UPI saw more than 178 million transactions and totalling more than USD3.7 bn. At this rate, incumbent payment innovators might just get disintermediated themselves. [image: Bloomberg News]

Read More

Teenager cracks ‘unhackable’ crypto trading device

Image

 Insights

22-Mar-18 Crypto-currency hardware wallets are encrypted, private, and supposedly completely secure, which is why they sit at the heart of the booming Bitcoin market. Yet 15 year old Saleem Rashid from the UK has hacked the market-leading Ledger Nano-S. [image: YouTube]

Read More

China reprimands Jack Ma’s Ant Financial over customer privacy

Image

 Insights

12-Jan-18 Chinese Internet regulators have scolded the country’s leading mobile payments company, Ant Financial, parent company of Alipay, for compromising its customers’ privacy by automatically enrolling users in its credit-scoring system, putting pressure on firms to better protect personal data. [image: Mobile Marketer]

Read More
Share