Despite the enormous adversity faced by this generation of Chinese students pursuing studies abroad, the majority of them are still holding on to their education goals and are looking forward to commencing studies. As part of the commitment to support these students through a quality payment service, Geoswift, Western Union Business Solutions and UnionPay International have joined forces to release a special offer to make it cheaper for Chinese students when they pay fees with UnionPay debit cards through WU® GlobalPay for Students.

Paul Marcantonio, Executive Director UK & Western Europe at ECOMMPAY explains how in the area […]

As the payments business moves toward faster settlement, verifying payor accounts becomes crucial, yet for non-card payments, “there’s a gap there,” notes Patricia Hewitt, principal at PG Research & Advisory Services LLC, a Savannah, Ga.-based payments consultancy. On Thursday, Checkbook Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, announced a step toward solving that issue.

The Fintech unicorn TransferWise has decided to ask investment banks to pitch in the new year for roles on an impending initial public offering (IPO), Sky News reported.

Today Geoswift has partnered with Alipay and Western Union Business Solutions to announce reduced rates to Chinese students when they pay International fees with Alipay through WU® GlobalPay for Students.

Revolut introduced two more features during this week. The challenger bank is shifting from mobile-only to an online model and Revolut has partnered with Modulr to let you receive your salary a day early.

Ian Johnson, Managing Director (Europe) at Marqeta, has given Everly.eu an exclusive interview in which he shared how the company has managed to build up a strong position in the market, in addition to lots of useful insights on the fintech environment.

PagoFX by Santander is a low-cost service for international transfers and is now available in Belgium.

The cross-border payments unicorn TransferWise announced partnership with charities and organisations who are seeking to find, and distribute, a vaccine for COVID-19.

Wirex is operating in 130 countries with 3.1m registered users and is a crypto-currency payments platform that launched the world’s first Visa crypto-enabled payments card.

PayPal launches a new buy now, pay later product in the UK allowing users to pay in three instalments over a short period.

Annual revenue at TransferWise grew to £302.6 million, the company. These results show a net profit after tax of £21.3 million for fiscal year ending March 2020.

PayPal is launching its ‘Pay in 4’ platform in the United States to compete with Klarna and other 'buy now, pay later' based businesses.

The buy now, pay later market leader released its report for the first half of 2020. Although Klarna experienced growth in some sectors, the net loss is $59.8 million.

The 'buy now pay later' Swedish fintech has recently seen the biggest transaction traffic from generation X.