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The growing influence of BigTech companies in payments and financial services

Voice of the Industry | Online Payments | 04 Sep 2023

Tue To, Manager at Edgar, Dunn & Company, dives into the ways in which BigTech giants are reshaping finance, blurring boundaries, and disrupting traditional banking with innovation and embedded financial services.

ecommerce, bigtech, real-time payments, Open Banking, embedded finance, digital payments, banks, BaaS, growth markets, financial services, credit card, e-wallet, fintech, payments

Paysign partners with EvoShare to develop rewards programme

News | Ecommerce | 19 Dec 2022

US-based provider of prepaid card programme Paysign has partnered with EvoShare to offer more rewards and savings opportunities to their clients and cardholders.

partnership, online payments, loyalty programme, ecommerce, payments infrastructure

Getting to grips with CBDC

Voice of the Industry | Payments General | 29 Sep 2022

We have been hearing about Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on an almost daily basis. Jesper Domargård from IDEMIA explains CBDC in very simple terms, together with what kind of ‘financial animal’ CBCD is.


CBDC, Bitcoin, stablecoin, payment methods, cryptocurrency, credit card, debit card, biometrics

Meta discontinues Novi crypto digital wallet

News | Mobile Payments | 05 Jul 2022

Global social media platform formerly known as Facebook, now Meta, has announced it discontinues its digital wallet for cryptocurrencies, Novi.

digital wallet, e-wallet, metaverse, Meta, cryptocurrency, crypto, crypto asset

Beyond the newsfeed: Detailed rundown of key partnerships in ecommerce payments (Q4 2021 – Q1 2022)

Voice of the Industry | Ecommerce | 06 Jun 2022

Browse the most up-to-date analysis of the ecommerce payments partnerships signed in the last two quarters made by The Paypers and extracted from the latest Who's Who in Payments Report 2022 

BNPL, account-to-account payment, partnership, ecommerce, Open Banking, ecommerce platform, merchant, Merchant Service Provider, contactless payments

The Facebook stablecoin dream has shut down

News | Cryptocurrencies | 02 Feb 2022

The Diem project, launched by Facebook as Libra in 2019, has shut down following scrutiny from financial regulators.

Diem, Meta, blockchain, stablecoin, crypto

Diem to sell assets to Silvergate Bank for USD 200 mln

News | Cryptocurrencies | 27 Jan 2022

Meta Platforms-led enterprise Diem Association has decided to sell its technology to Silvergate Capital for USD 200 million, according to CoinDesk, citing The Wall Street Journal.

Diem, Diem Association, Facebook, acquisition

Facebook launches digital wallet Novi

News | Cryptocurrencies | 22 Oct 2021

Facebook has started to roll out a “small pilot” of its Novi digital wallet in the US and Guatemala, more than two years after it was first announced, according to The Verge.

cryptocurrency, Paxos, stablecoin

Facebook digital wallet Novi is ready for market launch

News | Mobile Payments | 19 Aug 2021

Facebook has announced it will launch the Novi digital wallet tied to the Diem blockchain-based payment system, having received the necessary regulatory clearances.

Facebook, Diem, Diem Association, mobile payments, e-wallet

Diem Networks US partners with K2 Integrity

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 13 Aug 2021

US-based risk management company K2 Integrity has announced its engagement to support, initially lead, and continue to build solutions for the Diem Networks US Financial Intelligence Function (FIF). 

Diem, Diem Association, risk management, fraud management, compliance

The Pay Off – Exclusive interview with Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán

Interviews | Online Payments | 14 Jul 2021

Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán offer thoughtful insights into the mechanics of payments, exploring DeFi, EPI, CBDCs, and notions such as the power, profundity, and perversity of payments and the things that you have never even thought about before

CBDC, EPI, digital payments, cryptocurrency, DeFi, regulation, instant payments, risk management, banks, digitalisation, data, payments infrastructure, bigtech, central bank, stablecoin

A bumpy road ahead - transformation of payments leading towards cashless societies

Voice of the Industry | Payments General | 25 Jun 2021

The world of payments is rapidly moving away from cash and into non-cash transactions which is in line with a general digitalisation of our societies

CBDC, digital currency, cashless, e-wallet, cash, mobile payments, ATM

Interview with the Central Bank of Jamaica and eCurrency on CBDCs

Interviews | Payments General | 11 Jun 2021

The Central Bank of Jamaica and eCurrency delve into the topic of CBDCs, based on the pilot that currently tests a digital Jamaican Dollar

CBDC, central bank, online security, cash, DLT, payment processing, digital payments, e-wallet, KYC, data privacy

Interview with Ran Goldi from First Digital on Diem, stablecoins, CBDCs

Interviews | Cryptocurrencies | 28 May 2021

Ran Goldi founder of First Digital delves into one of the hottest topics – Diem, stablecoins, CBDCs

Diem, PSP, merchant, stablecoin, CBDC, cryptocurrency, cross-border ecommerce, digital assets, banks

Diem aims to replace USD stablecoin with gov digital dollar

News | Cryptocurrencies | 27 May 2021

The recently announced Diem USD stablecoin is intended as an interim step until the US Federal Reserve issues a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital dollar.

Diem, Diem Association, stablecoin, digital dollar, e-wallet, data privacy

US Federal Reserve consults the public on stablecoins, CBDCs

News | Cryptocurrencies | 24 May 2021

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has announced in a prepared speech to camera it would consult the public about a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the summer.

CBDC, stablecoin, digital dollar, Diem

Facebook-backed crypto project Diem moves to US, abandoning Swiss licence plans

News | Cryptocurrencies | 13 May 2021

Digital currency group Diem Association, formally known as Facebook’s Libra project, has announced plans to launch a US dollar stablecoin.

Diem Association, stablecoin, payment processing, blockchain, cross-border payments

Interview on CBDCs with James Pomeroy, Global Economist, HSBC

Interviews | Cryptocurrencies | 23 Apr 2021

Ahead of Open Banking Expos virtual event on CBDCs, The Paypers has sat with James Pomeroy, Global Economist at HSBC to delve into the latest CBDC projects and highlight the benefits, risks, unknowns these projects entail

Open Banking, CBDC, stablecoin, cryptocurrency, digital payments, pandemic, Bitcoin, blockchain, central bank, banks

DIEM raises USD 5.5 mln in funding round

News | Payments General | 16 Mar 2021

UK-based DIEM, a circular economy-oriented startup that lets customers sell their unwanted items to the company and receive instant payments, has raised USD 5.5 million seed funding in an oversubscribed round.

fintech, funding, startup, instant payments

From traditional asset management to Diem - interview with Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks

Interviews | Cryptocurrencies | 19 Feb 2021

The Paypers sat with Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks to learn more about the company and the digital assets industry

Fireblocks, PSPs, exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, digital assets, Diem, cryptocurrency, Michael Shaulov