Stripe launches issuing service in 20 European countries

Stripe has launched Stripe Issuing service in 20 countries across Europe, enabling its global user base to start issuing cards in the continent. The service has now been launched in Estonia, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK. The service[…]

African crypto usage spurs Luno as customers reach 7M

The crypto industry as a whole has seen a momentous year of growth, heavily spurred on by the entrance of institutional investors adopting bitcoin due to its store of value properties. The 2020 spike bitcoin experienced was also accelerated by its global adoption as the number of global cryptocurrency users surpassed 100 million in Q3 2020. For Luno, a U.K.-based[…]

4 Digital Payment Trends for 2021

COVID-19 promoted the adoption of technological models that generate alternatives to the use of physical money and that this new year will be consolidated as a real alternative in people’s daily lives. According to BPC Banking Technologies, these will be the four trends that will define the way payments will be made in 2021: 1.[…]