MasterCard partners up with Somalian lender Premier Bank and becomes the first international payments network to enter the nation. |  | | | | New Products & Technology |
Live Gamer, formerly known as a provider of e-commerce solutions, has this week re-launched itself as Emergent Payments, a firm that enables digital businesses to accept secure payments around the world. |  | | | A Samsung vice president has revealed to investors that its mobile payment service will be expanding to Europe and China, even though the product has not even been launched in Korea and the United States. |  | | |
Coinzone, the European bitcoin payment platform, has formed a strategic partnership with X-Cart, a global provider of e-commerce shopping carts to allow e-commerce businesses to accept bitcoin payments. |  | | |
The International Payments Framework Association (IPFA) has made Elizabeth McQuerry, a partner in the US payments consulting firm Glenbrook Partners, its new CEO with immediate effect. It has also appointed a new member to its board of directors and a new company secretary. |  | | |
PAY.ON has responded to the shifting payments landscape and the unique challenges facing the acquiring industry with a modular merchant gateway solution based on their open API payment technology. |  | | | | |
