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El Salvador has launched Sivar, a state-supported remittance app
El Salvador rolled out a state-supported remittance platform on Tuesday that lets eligible users in the United States send digital dollars to verified recipients for a flat $2 fee, marking a significant pivot toward stablecoin-based payments five years after the country made Bitcoin legal tender. The app, called Sivar, settles transactions on Base, the layer-2 network operated by Coinbase (COIN). The cryptocurrency exchange is providing the payment infrastructure, while technology firm...
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AsiaPay Pilot Launches Voice Pay for merchants in Asia
An AI-Powered UI for Smarter Convenient Payments AsiaPay, a leading digital payment service and technology provider in Asia, today announced the pilot launch of Voice Pay, an AI-powered voice payment experience that lets consumers speak into their mobile device and instruct payment using their preferred payment method — from digital wallets to cards. Voice Pay brings secure, hands-free checkout to everyday commerce, making payments faster, more accessible and more intuitive for consumers...
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Enabling the next generation of AI data centers
As demands for AI continue to shift, so does the planning for the data centers expected to support this growth Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scale and complexity of data center infrastructure. Traditional data center facilities were designed around relatively steady CPU workloads and predictable growth in power demand, allowing developers to secure energy supply alongside growing demand, cooling systems based on known and mature technology, and infrastructure capacity with a...
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Global Payments Completes Landmark Acquisition of Worldpay
Global Payments acquires Worldpay from FIS to become a pure-play commerce solutions leader, processing US$3.7tn in annual volume. Global Payments Inc. has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Worldpay from FIS and GTCR. The shift transforms the Atlanta-based firm into a pure-play commerce solutions provider, with the new entity serving a vast client spectrum ranging from micro-merchants to multinational enterprises. By shedding non-core assets, the company aims to sharpen...
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Tap-to-Pay Gives Small Merchants a Big Advantage
A decade ago, accepting card payments at a farmers market, food truck, or pop-up shop often meant investing in bulky hardware, worrying about battery life, and paying for ongoing technical support. Today, a small business owner can accept secure, contactless payments with nothing more than a smartphone. Tap-to-pay is doing more than speeding up checkout for consumers—it’s lowering the barriers to commerce for micro merchant, giving them access to affordable payment technology, customer...
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Mojaloop Foundation Appoints Jean Bosco Iyacu as CEO to Lead Expansion of Inclusive Payments Platform
The Mojaloop Foundation has named Jean Bosco Iyacu as its next chief executive officer, bringing in a Rwanda-based digital finance leader to guide the nonprofit as it scales its open-source payments infrastructure across emerging markets. Iyacu will assume the role on June 1, 2026, succeeding Paula Hunter, who is retiring after overseeing the organization’s development as it expanded adoption of its interoperable, real-time payment technology. The transition is expected to focus on continuity...
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Bangladesh Bank opens market to Global Payment Giants
The new framework marks one of the most significant reforms to Bangladesh's digital payments landscape in recent years, aiming to modernise cross-border transactions, support the country's rapidly growing freelancing and e-commerce sectors, and bring international payment practices under a regulated banking framework Bangladesh Bank (BB) has introduced a comprehensive regulatory framework for bank-mediated cross-border payments, paving the way for global payment platforms such as PayPal,...
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Digital Payments Redefine the Economy
For decades, cash has been the backbone of Bangladesh’s economy. From roadside tea stalls and neighbourhood grocery shops to wholesale markets and public transport, physical currency has remained the preferred mode of payment. Yet the country is gradually entering a new phase, one in which digital transactions are becoming increasingly common. The rapid expansion of mobile financial services, internet banking, digital wallets and, most recently, the introduction of Bangla QR, reflects a...
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Mojaloop in Production: What You Get, What You Build
Lessons from taking eKash (Rwanda) live and implementing SSIIPS (South Sudan): Where the open-source foundation excels, and where national scale demands custom engineering. WHO WE ARE? A Kigali-based engineering company building payments and open finance infrastructure. 42 engineers, Kigali, Rwanda 2 national switch programmes 1 Mojaloop, 2 deployments eKash - Rwanda Mojaloop-based national switch (RNDPS 2.0), built for RSwitch Ltd. Delivered and operated in production. SSIIPS - South Sudan...
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The Future of Interoperable Payments and Financial Inclusion
From July 14 to 16, 2026, the global Mojaloop community celebrated MojaCom 31, its flagship three-day event that brought together regulators, bankers, developers, and fintech experts from around the world virtually. The gathering solidified its position as the premier forum for discussing the advancement of open source in national payment systems. The Pillars of MojaCom Software Evolution: The lessons learned from the rollout of version 17.2.0 of the core software were thoroughly analyzed....
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