#payment platform

Tunisia to Launch the eDinar, A Centralized Digital Currency

December 29, 2015 by Joseph Young at Finance, News

Since the announcement of the Monetas CEO Johann Gevers on December 28, there has been a growing misconception amongst bitcoin enthusiasts and readers at bitcoin forums regarding the state of the digital transformation of the national currency of Tunisia, eDinar. According to Gevers, the crypto-finance solutions provider partnered with government...

Cashila Enters the European Remittance Market; Enables Payments in Bitcoin

December 27, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, News, Tech

Banks and established financial institutions are extremely inefficient in processing international payments from the United States to Europe, primarily due to regulatory requirements and overseas financial policies. Emerging European remittance applications, platforms and outlets such as Transferwise offer low-cost remittance payments, but fail to address major problems such as speed...

Coinify Teams Up With Payssion To Further Strengthen Its Position In Asia

December 11, 2015 by Diana Ngo at Business, News

Danish bitcoin startup Coinify has signed a partnership agreement with Hong Kong-based online payment service provider Payssion to enable the company's merchants to accept payments in 16 different cryptocurrencies. The deal strengthens Coinify's presence in the continent and will help "fuel digital currency adoption," the company said in a release....

GoPay and BitcoinPay Introduce Bitcoin to Thousands of European Merchants

December 4, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, News

Leading Czech-based payment gateway provider GoPay has partnered with European bitcoin payment processor BitcoinPay to spur the growth of bitcoin merchants and awareness in Central Europe. “The leading Czech payment gateway GoPay is now accepting bitcoin in cooperation with BitcoinPay and their API,” announced bitcoin expert Kamil Brejcha. Over the...

Bitwala and Trezor Join Forces to Send Bitcoin to PayPal Accounts

November 29, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, News

Leading European bitcoin payment services provider Bitwala has partnered with bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor to enable users to pay bills or settle bitcoin-to-PayPal transactions using the Trezor web wallet. The integration of Trezor bitcoin payment infrastructure allows users to make payments using the myTREZOR web wallet simply by entering...

NextBank Raises US$2.3 Million; Targets Early 2016 Launch

November 26, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, Finance, News

NextBank, the world’s first established financial institution looking to provide advanced banking services to bitcoin users by providing a combined platform for both fiat and cryptocurrency users, has recently raised US$2.35 million from undisclosed venture capital firms. With the new financing, NextBank aims to improve and optimize its advanced banking...

PayMess: a Trial App Tests Mycelium’s Newly Implemented Proof of Payment System

November 25, 2015 by Joseph Young at News, Tech

Leading bitcoin mobile wallet service provider and payment processing platform Mycelium has implemented a system called Proof of Payment (POP) that enables anyone on the Bitcoin network to prove the confirmation of a payment by validating the credentials of a bitcoin wallet used to sign a previously generated transaction. Kate...

Blockchain Company Clearmatics Completes First Round of Funding

November 21, 2015 by Diana Ngo at Business, News, Tech

Clearmatics Technology Ltd., the company working with UBS Group AG to develop a "settlement coin," has completed its first round of funding led by Route Sixty-Six Ventures. Other investors included Tellurian Capital Management and Nyca Partners. "What Robert [Sams] and Clearmatics are building is a real game changer and will...

Align Commerce Raises $12.5 Million in Investments

November 19, 2015 by Nigel Dollentas at Business, Finance, News

Align Commerce, a company that specializes in providing business to business payments, recently secured $12.5 million from their series A round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, a prominent venture capital firm that, until now, had not invested money in Bitcoin startups. Followed by Kleiner Perkins was the new investor...

Visa Europe Collab Partners with Epiphyte

November 14, 2015 by Nigel Dollentas at Business, Finance, News

Visa Europe Collab, a new international innovation hub from Visa Europe that works with a network of partners from within the Digital and Fintech sectors, has recognized the potential that Bitcoin (and the underlying blockchain technology) has to completely revolutionize traditional remittances. In doing so, they have partnered with Epiphyte,...

Pages: First Page1234Last Page