Digital wallets are transforming payments and commerce. In today’s operational landscape, where convenience reigns supreme and value-added services drive customer stickiness, the financial services industry faces new challenges and opportunities from the Big Tech builders of those very digital wallets. With the news at Tuesday’s...
Philippines-based mobile payments provider GCash wants to go public, when the time is right. “We recognize that the new round of investments further strengthens Mynt’s ability and position coming into an IPO,” Martha Sazon, CEO of GCash parent Globe Fintech Innovations/Mynt, told reporters Wednesday (Aug. 7). An initial public offering (IPO)...
Mynt, owner of the Philippines’ mobile wallet GCash, is now valued at $5 billion. The company became the Southeast Asian country’s first $5 billion unicorn last week following investments from Ayala Corp. and Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). “GCash is an indispensable infrastructure for...
OwlTing Group integrated its digital wallet, OwlPay Wallet Pro, with the Stellar blockchain to support the USDC stablecoin on Stellar. The integration will expand the reach of the OwlPay payment platform to the more than 8 million accounts on Stellar, OwlTing, a global blockchain FinTech...
In the United Kingdom, digital wallets are not just tools for online payments; they are rapidly evolving into versatile companions for everyday tasks and transactions. A recent PYMNTS Intelligence Report, “Digital Wallets Beyond Financial Transactions: U.K. Edition,” in collaboration with Google Wallet, reveals that 44%...
TerraPay says financial institutions can now send money to mobile wallets via the Swift system. The announcement Tuesday (July 23) by the money movement company applies to 2.1 billion mobile wallets worldwide, and is designed to enhance the cross-border payments experience for businesses and consumers. “Payments initiated by...
Enterprise software firm Inrupt has introduced a digital wallet designed to hold user data. Businesses and governments, the company wrote on its blog Tuesday (July 23), can use the technology to give customers and citizens a place to store their data. “Over 60% of the...
Consumers’ use of digital wallets is evolving beyond just making purchases, and younger generations are showing the way forward. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Digital Wallets Beyond Financial Transactions: A Global Perspective,” created in collaboration with Google Wallet, drew from a survey of more than 12,000...
Mobile payments — and by extension, mobile wallets — are proving to be a favorite means of paying for all aspects of daily life as younger consumers navigate physical and digital channels. A range of findings from PYMNTS Intelligence reports have illustrated just how pervasive...
