By Steven Millward for TechinAsia.com Apple Pay launched in China today, as Tech in Asia

By Sofia in LetsTalkPayments.com

Reuters: Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it has acquired Indian payments processor Emvantage Payments Pvt Ltd

By Meghna Rao, article first appeared in Tech in Asia news TIA: The dream of a cashless

By Elliot Maras, article first appeared in CCN: Bitcoin, Blockchain, FinTech, & Cryptocurrency News CCN:

Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Nigerian digital payments

By James Vincent for the Verge.com, Swatch has announced that it’s bringing contactless payments to its

By Bloomberg News, Lufax, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender and broker, has secured its position as

Chinese P2P (peer-to-peer) lending start-up Duanrong has completed RMB390 million (US$59 million) series B round

Eighteen months ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced an unofficial messengers’ race for better and faster monetization

VentureBeat: PayPal started trading on the Nasdaq this morning at $41.46 per share. As an independently traded company,

TechCrunch: British startup Revolut just raised $2.3M (£1.5M) from Balderton Capital to make you pay

TechCrunch: Samsung has begun rolling out its answer to Apple Pay in Korea this week.

EU-STARTUPS: In the last decade, there were a bunch of really successful fintech companies that

TECHINASIA: Nearex, a mobile payments startup based in Singapore, yesterday announced it raised funds in

TechInAsia: Mobile payment methods like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Tenpay account for a huge portion of

TechCrunch: Mobile payment startup Square has been gradually building out the products it offers to small businesses to

WIRED: Apple has detailed how Apple Pay will work when it lands in the UK next month in

TECHCRUNCH: Revel makes one of the leading iPad point-of-sales systems and was among the first to

WIRED: Apple Pay, the payments service that allows for contactless payments in stores and one-touch payments

TECHCRUNCH: Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets, with 90 million smartphones in circulation

TECHCRUNCH:  At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced Android Pay, a new payments solution

The Economist: Paying for a taxi ride using your mobile phone is easier in Nairobi

E27.CO: With e-shopping on the rise, there is a paradigm shift in the traditional payments scene, giving

GeekWire:  The 16 million Starbucks customers who use the company’s mobile payment service may want to strengthen

Business Insider:  Samsung will release Samsung Pay in the second half of 2015, according to

TECHCRUNCH: PayPal is rolling out seamless, one-touch payments across the web, allowing customers to checkout from

TECHCRUNCH: These days everyone wants to create the next Uber for anything, and the word “disruption” is

RE/CODE: Best Buy is the first big-name U.S. retailer to break ranks with a Walmart-led Apple

TECHCRUNCH: Payments continue to be a huge issue in many parts of Asia and emerging markets. That’s why 2C2P,