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East & Partners

Sector: Payments

(3 July 2018 – New Zealand) Burger King New Zealand will no longer accept payWave and payPass as a payment...

(2 July 2018 – Europe)  Visa has launched a new pilot in the US and Europe of new dual-interface biometric...

(28 June 2018 – Australia) A new mobile digital entrant backed by payments company Cuscal called 86400 is set to...

(27 June 2018 – India) WhatsApp announced it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy to reflect the...

(11 June 2018 – New Zealand) Bank of New Zealand has become the first big bank in either Australia or...

(6 June 2018 – China) Ten Chinese banks have signed on to SWIFT’s global payment initiative (gpi), including three of...

(5 June 2018 – UK) Citibank has become the first corporate bank to join the UK’s Open Banking framework to...

(31 May 2018 – China) Chinese lenders handled $11.1t in mobile payments in the first quarter, as the country accelerates...

(25 May 2018 – Japan) MUFG is partnering with US cloud software company Akamai to develop a blockchain service with...

(16 May 2018 – Asia) Mitsubishi Corporation, MUFG Bank, Bank of Ayudhya and Standard Chartered have jointly launched a cross-border...