Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-wallets
Starting at SoftBank, using its own PayPay service
Software27 Sep 2024 | 11
Payments
Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline
NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old 'on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences' – now bailed
Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 66
Block accused of mass compliance failures that saw digi-dollars reach terrorists
Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix
Security02 May 2024 | 5
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments
First they came for McDonald's and I did not speak out because I have even worse taste in food
Off-Prem20 Mar 2024 | 251
India's competition regulator orders Google Play payment probe
Choice of alternative payment providers labelled 'illusory' – because none existed
Personal Tech20 Mar 2024 |
India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million
Paytm's merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast
Personal Tech19 Feb 2024 | 11
BROADER TOPICS
Attack on direct debit provider London & Zurich leaves customers with 6-figure backlogs
Customers complain of poor comms during huge outage that’s sparked payroll fears
Cyber-crime23 Nov 2023 | 15
Scammers use India’s real-time payment system to siphon off money, send it to China
Countries signed on for India’s stack might watch out
Security24 Oct 2023 | 14
Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up
It's not hip to be this Square
Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8
Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker
You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware
On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 18
China eases barriers for cashless foreigners to use local services
Asia in brief ALSO: Singapore's government LLM, China beats 5G base station target, and Malaysia telecom gives in to 5G bandwidth purchasing policy
Applications24 Jul 2023 | 10
Myanmar's government in exile throws support behind launch of crypto-based bank
Ousted opposition seeks ways to circumvent military junta and access resources
Software22 Jul 2023 | 5
Australia to phase out checks by 2030
Bouncing them all – starting with government – but cash gets to stick around
Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 123
WeChat makes facial recog payment systems talk to the hand
Wave-to-pay tech seems ideal for Jedi cosplay – if palmprints and veins are the biometrics you're looking for
Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 5
India, Singapore link systems for real-time cross-border cash transfers
The Unified Payments Interface takes an important stride forward – as does India's soft power tech push
Software22 Feb 2023 |
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