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Diem could slash dollar payment costs

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Diem, the Facebook-sponsored digital currency, could be highly disruptive to the US dollar payments infrastructure, say analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Earlier this week Diem said it […]

WhatsApp gets green light for payments in India

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Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said that from today it is rolling out a payments option for its 400m users in India. The new feature will enable Indian users of the […]

ECB is preparing for digital euro

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The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says Europe is falling behind in the global money race and may soon launch a new digital version of the […]

Brazil blocks Facebook’s payments push

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Brazil’s central bank has put an apparent stop to Facebook’s payments plans in the country only a week after the tech giant announced the launch of a new WhatsApp-based digital […]

Rise of the platforms

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Big tech firms like Google, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba and Tencent want our payments data. Are we right to share it with them? “The entry of BigTechs into the provision of […]

Facebook launches digital payments in Brazil

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There’s no sign of a let-up in tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg’s push into payments. Facebook announced today that its WhatsApp messenger service has started offering in-app digital payments for users […]

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