Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news. Coverage includes Karen Webster’s discussion of the benefits available to Amazon Prime...
AlipayHK and GCash announced Monday (June 25) the launch of a cross-border remittance service via their e-wallet platforms that is powered by blockchain technology developed...
From music royalties to airline vouchers, there are many reasons organizations may need to push payments to individuals in various amounts, currencies, forms and frequencies,...
The paper chase — the literal one — is about to get cut short amid distances well-traveled. News came Wednesday (June 6) via Reuters that...
Blockchain probably won’t solve all the world’s financial problems, as devoutly as innovators and enthusiasts may hope and believe that it can. At any rate,...
There are three things on the mind of nanopay‘s CEO Laurence Cooke: Emerging markets, cross-border business-to-business (B2B) transactions, and capital markets and treasury. Cooke said that,...
When a big firm shuts down, it’s not every day that a sitting president lobbies to get it un-shut. Nor is it often the case that...
In many ways, eCommerce has dissolved borders, creating new expectations for business to be conducted between countries with different currencies, languages and regulations. And as...
Ripple reported positive results from multiple early pilots for its on-demand liquidity product, the company announced in a press release. The xRapid solution uses Ripple’s...