Airbnb Launches New Partial Payment Feature

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Steam drops Bitcoin payment option, citing fees and volatility

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) When Valve first started accepting Bitcoin as an option for Steam purchases last April, the cryptocurrency was trading around $ 450. Today, with Bitcoin surging past $ 12,000 per coin, Valve has announced that “Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to […]

Apple’s P2P payment option has finally arrived (AAPL)

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Payments Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. A new update to Apple’s iOS released over the weekend is giving users in the US access to Apple Pay Cash, the tech company’s peer-to-peer (P2P) payments offering, according to Business Insider. The feature will enable users […]

China’s most popular mobile payment app comes to London

Walk around Camden Market this weekend and you’ll notice that many of the stalls now support WeChat Pay. The mobile payment platform — an extension of Tencent’s messaging app WeChat — is big in China but almost unheard of in the UK (at least outside of the Chinese community). So why bother? Well, the north […]

Russia receives down payment from Turkey on S-400 air defense systems – Moscow

Moscow has confirmed that it received an advance from Turkey for the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft systems. The much-discussed deal may signal closer ties between both countries, as well as a growing rift between Turkey and its NATO allies. Read more “Yes, we have received it [the down payment]. We can’t name the dates […]

Russia to issue 10mn national payment cards

Published time: 8 Sep, 2017 15:00 Russia’s top lender Sberbank says it will issue ten million Mir charge cards as part of the country’s NSPK national payment system. Read more According to the bank, “public sector workers, pensioners, and other clients, who chose Mir for their personal needs,” are among the cardholders. Last year, as […]

Apple files trademark suggesting its P2P payment service is coming to Europe

Apple has filed to trademark its peer-to-peer payment service with a European agency, indicating that the service will be accessible in at least some parts of the continent when it launches later this year. Earlier this week, Apple filed an application to trademark “Apple Pay Cash” with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The filing […]

Blackberry turns a quarterly profit thanks to Qualcomm’s $940 million arbitration payment (BBRY)

AP (Reuters) – Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd reported a fall in first quarter revenue that missed estimates as it received fewer orders from its enterprise customers, sending the company’s U.S.-listed shares down 6 percent in premarket trading. The company said it got more than 3,000 orders from enterprise customers in the quarter, down from over 3,500 […]