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COUPONS 
January 18, 2018 How Sodexo Is Moving From Coupon Booklets to Cards and Mobile Payments
HIGHLIGHTS After 20 years in India, Sodexo is going digital The paper vouchers will be discontinued from 2018 It’s offering a physical card, and mobile payments via QR codes In its 20th year in India, Sodexo has had to adopt a digital approach replacing the famous paper vouchers that the company used until now. The […]
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COUPONS 
January 11, 2018 How Sodexo Is Moving From Coupon Booklets to Cards and Mobile Payments
HIGHLIGHTS After 20 years in India, Sodexo is going digital The paper vouchers will be discontinued from 2018 It’s offering a physical card, and mobile payments via QR codes In its 20th year in India, Sodexo has had to adopt a digital approach replacing the famous paper vouchers that the company used until now. The […]
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NEWS 
June 24, 2017 How Pizza Hut and payments are fueling China’s retail revolution
Part of the huge shadow Ant Financial casts is its appetite for global investment, but at the same time it’s making moves that are kicking off major changes to how payments are handled in its local market in China. While the world waits to see how the company’s attempt to acquire U.S.-based MoneyGram will play […]
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ELECTRONICS 
December 13, 2016 App or Credit? Why Cash May be Replaced by Mobile Payments
It is Monday morning in San Francisco, and you have just woken up late. To help in your rush to get to work on time, you use your favorite ride service app to pay for a driver to bring you to work. On the way to work, that pre-coffee, drowsy feeling starts to kick in, […]
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ALL DEALS 
August 24, 2016 Fino Paytech Set to Launch Payments Bank in Next 6 Months
Having bagged a Rs. 250-crore investment from BPCL, the first by an oil marketer in a Payments Bank, Fino Paytech is looking for at least one more round of fund infusion through stake sale before it launches the bank in about 6 months. “We will have at least one more stake sale, after which we […]
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NEWS 
March 26, 2016 Ola acquires IIT Madras incubated payments startup Qarth to strengthen Ola Money
Ola Launches standalone Ola Money appOla promises ride as soon you step outOla buys minority stake in payment-tech firm ZipCashOla completes two years in Chennai, registers 40% m-o-m growthOla Micro spearheads company’s fight against Uber App-based taxi hailing service Ola has acquired Chennai-based payments solution Qarth Technologies, which was incubated out of IIT Madras, to […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 15, 2016 Infusionsoft Expands Its Payments Solutions
If there was a recurring theme at the recent ICON16 event, an annual meeting held for its users by Infusionsoft, it was about “building ease of use” for its customers. In fact, those were the exact words used by Chief Products Officer Terry Hicks in a media briefing. At the conference, Infusionsoft released some new […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 14, 2016 ShopClues set to buy mobile payments start-up Momoe
Radhika Aggarwal and Sanjay Sethi, founders of ShopClues. Photo: Mint Online shopping platform ShopClues.com is in advanced talks to buy mobile payments firm Momoe Technologies, as it looks to add a payment service to its platform, according to three people aware of the discussions. The all-stock deal, likely to be announced in the next 45 […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 2, 2016 Amazon to buy Emvantage Payments
The announcement comes shortly after Amazon infused an additional Rs.1,696 crore into its India unit in December 2015 to take on local rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal. Photo: Reuters Bengaluru: Online marketplace Amazon Tuesday said it will buy online payments firm Emvantage Payments Pvt. Ltd to develop India-specific payments solutions. The announcement comes shortly after Amazon […]
