e& money, the fintech arm and financial super-app of e& life, announced its partnership with Mastercard to transform and evolve the way customers make payments via an exclusive prepaid card – enabling payments anywhere in the world and...

According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, 64% of MENA consumers, compared to 61% globally increased their use of at least one digital payment method in the last year, including digital cards, SMS payments, digital money transfer apps, and...

Ooredoo Group has signed a partnership agreement with Huawei to leverage Huawei Mobile Fintech platform to provide Fintech services in markets across the company’s footprint. Under the agreement, the two entities will cooperate for Ooredoo to provide...

Lookout, an endpoint to cloud security company, has released its 2022 Government Threat Report which examines the most prominent mobile threats affecting federal, state and local governments in the United States.  Lookout data reveals mobile phishing...

Lanistar, a virtual payment card provider, has gone live with Google Pay operability to its virtual payment card in Brazil – one of the fastest-growing markets for its service. This is the first time Lanistar has been approved for use through...

Optasia, a leading FinTech services provider, has launched a microloan service via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), with Ecobank in  Guinea and MTN.   The launch comes as part of MTN’s BankTech strategy...

Boost, a leading regional full-spectrum FinTech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), a national retail payments network infrastructure, have announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now accept cross-border payments...

Zimperium – a mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments – has published new research detailing the increasing risk financial institutions and consumers worldwide face due to Trojan horse...

PalmPay, a FinTech innovator aiming to make digital payment more accessible and flexible, has announced that it has reached 10 million users in Nigeria. This represents a doubling in its user base within just six months and puts its customer numbers in the...

As businesses in the UAE double down on mobile apps in a bid to increase customer engagement and spending, they are seeing highly positive results for their efforts with the overall number of installs of mobile apps in the country growing 23% in H1 2022,...