Monthly Car Payments Hit a New High: $748
Car prices skyrocketed during the pandemic, and they really haven’t come down. Consumers are still paying outlandish sums of money on average for both new and used vehicles, and that’s…
WBC strips Terence Crawford of 168-pound title on claims of failed sanctioning fee payments
Getty Images Terence Crawford is undisputed super middleweight champion no more. Crawford was stripped of the WBC championship after WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman claimed the fighter had failed to pay…
Dubai, Crypto.com Ink Deal to Process Payments for Government Services via Crypto
Dubai’s Department of Finance (DOF) plans to use cryptocurrencies to process payments for government services in the emirate. In the days to come, residents of Dubai will be able to…
El Salvador Makes Bitcoin Payments Voluntary for Private Sector Merchants to Comply with IMF Loan Conditions
El Salvador is introducing reforms to the use of Bitcoin in its financial and industrial sectors. The Central American country has agreed on a deal with the International Monetary Fund…
UPI Circle Feature With Access to Secondary User Payments Rolled Out in India by NPCI
UPI Circle, the latest innovation in Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was rolled out by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) last week. The feature allows UPI users to enable…
Airtel Payments Bank Smartwatch With RuPay Chip Launched in India in Partnership With Noise and NPCI
Airtel Payments Bank introduced a smartwatch with support for National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) technology in collaboration with Noise and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the Global Fintech…
WhatsApp Reportedly Testing International Payments via UPI for Indian Users
WhatsApp could be working on enabling international payments via its in-app Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service, as per a new leak. WhatsApp Payments or WhatsApp Pay was first introduced for…
Fiserv, Amadeus vie to acquire Shift4 Payments: Source
Payments processors like Shift4 thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic as customers turned to digital payment methods, but some have since struggled to maintain growth amid increased competition and high inflation.…
RBI Not Planning Harsher Rules to Curb Fintech Sector After Paytm Strictures, Official Says
India’s banking regulator doesn’t intend to impose drastic measures on the country’s fintech sector, a senior official said, weeks after it stunned investors by abruptly suspending much of the operations…
Paytm Shifts Nodal Account to Axis Bank, RBI Extends Unit Wind-Down Date to March 15
India’s Paytm Payments Bank has been given more time by the central bank to wind down its operations, while its parent company has signed on a new banking partner to…