Bajaj finance limited and Worldline India

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Bajaj Finance Limited Collaborates With Worldline India To Provide Merchant Payment Solutions

Bajaj Finance Limited has collaborated with Worldline, a global payment services company, to offer point-of-sale (POS) payment acquisition solutions for its merchant network. The partnership will allow a wide range of payment instruments to be accepted on those terminals, including EMI cards, credit cards, UPI, and wallets. Billing integrations, EMI options, transaction processing, data analytics, and fraud control services will be provided… read-more

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 - 06:14 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: Bajaj finance, Worldline, payment, UPI, Online Payment

Courtesy: ANI

Google

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Google To Enable Alternative Payment Options Temporarily For Match Apps

Match Group Inc announced Google will temporarily enable the company to give consumers a variety of payment systems. Match filed a lawsuit against Google in May, calling it a "last resort" to keep Tinder and its other applications on the Google Play store. By June 1, Google said it will stop allowing people to download certain of Match's applications if they exclusively used Google's payment system and shared revenue. 

Sun, 22 May 2022 - 07:10 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: Google, Tinder, match group, payment, Play Store

Courtesy: The Indian Express

Cash in hand.

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Shipowners Alleges Indonesian Navy Asks Money To Release Ships

Over a dozen shipowners paid about $300,000 apiece to the Indonesian navy to get their ships released. Reportedly, the ships were illegally anchored near Singapore in Indonesian waters. As per the shipowners, payments were given in cash to naval officials or by bank transfer to intermediaries. ''It's not true that the Indonesian navy received or asked for payment to release the ships,'' said Arsyad Abdullah, Indonesian naval fleet commander… read-more

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 - 05:10 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: Indonesia, SINGAPORE, singapore strait, Navy, payment

Courtesy: Reuters

WhatsApp Money Transfer

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Whatapp Unveils New Feature; Know More

Messaging giant Whatsapp has added a new feature that aids people to choose payment background while doing transactions. “With Payments Backgrounds, our effort is to bring excitement to everyday payments through WhatsApp and enable our users to express themselves if they wish,” said Mahesh Mahatme, Director of Whatsapp payment. The feature is similar to GooglePay where the user can avail backgrounds while doing money transactions.

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 - 08:38 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: WhatsApp Pay, WhatsApp, payment, UPI, Google Pay

Courtesy: Money Control

Paytm.

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Paytm Expands Rent Payments Service, Offers Cashback Up To Rs 10K

Paytm has extended its rent payment service to include shop rents, property deposits, token amount, brokerage and other services. Offering assured cashback up to Rs 10,000 on rent payments made through credit cards, Paytm said the service will enable users keep a track on their expenses. The rent payments can be made from the “Recharge & Pay Bills" section to the beneficiary via Paytm UPI, net banking and debit card.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 - 07:04 PM / by Sohini Mandal

Tags: Paytm, Credit Card, cashback, rent, payment

Courtesy: The Times of India

Women's Cricket Team.

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BCCI Issues T20 World Cup Prize Money For Women's Cricket Team

The BCCI has released the prize money for all the 15 members of the women's cricket team for the T20 World Cup played in Australia in 2020 where they finished as a runner-up. BCCI also gave out the match fees for the home series against South Africa played in March 2021. Notably, the board recently made headlines in The Telegraph, UK for delaying player’s payment on various fronts.

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 - 08:06 PM / by Sohini Mandal

Tags: Women Cricket, payment, BCCI, prize money

Courtesy: The Times of India

Reels on Instagram

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After YouTube Now Instagram May Pay Content Creators To Create Reels

Instagram is said to be working on the 'Bonuses' feature to pay content creators for creating reels, according to the screenshots shared by developer Alessandro Paluzzi. This feature will be available only to the selected creators with good engagement and uploading volumes where the users should meet the specific 'Bonus thresholds'. However, Instagram has not officially announced this feature. Recently, YouTube also announced to pay creators… read-more

Wed, 26 May 2021 - 08:50 PM / by Sohini Mandal

Tags: Instagram , Instagram Reels, payment, content, creators

Courtesy: The Indian Express

YouTube Shorts logo

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Luring Creators YouTube Plans To Pay Users To Create 'Shorts'

Google has created $100 million funds for YouTube Shorts in order to pay users for making engaging content and will roll out this option for users in the US and India. YouTube will get in touch with creators with original content and wide-scale engagement. Although the payment amount is unknown, YouTube plans to keep it up till 2022. This initiative is seen to rival the now banned Chinese app Tiktok.

Wed, 12 May 2021 - 06:35 PM / by Sohini Mandal

Tags: TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Funds, google users, pay, payment

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Paytm Logo

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Paytm To Allow Smartphone-based NFC Card Payments For Merchants

Paytm will soon facilitate merchants to use android smartphones to receive Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled debit and credit card payments from the 'Paytm for Business' App. Powered by Software Point-of-Sale (SoftPoS) technology, the fintech major's latest multilingual service, dubbed 'Paytm Smart POS', modifies a smartphone to accept payments by simply tapping the card on the phone's back. Reportedly, Paytm has already tested its soft-… read-more

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 - 06:55 PM / by Ashly Ann Varghese

Tags: Paytm, NFC, Paytm for Business, SoftPoS, Credit Card, payment, fintech, Android

Courtesy: LiveMint