Analysis of News relating to the Digital Money Ecosystem

Iran and the Question of International Payment Networks - TechRasa (press release) (blog)

29/04/2017 Link to source

Iran and the Question of International Payment Networks Iran has no connection to International Payment Networks such as Visa and MasterCard. The country has remained an isolated island with few connections to the outside world. But what does it means for Iran and Iranians at large? Payment cards have been ...

Context

	Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. It has a location in three spheres of Asia (West, Central, and South) and is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan and Russia are direct neighbors to the north.
	Authorize.Net (CybesSource, Visa) Since 1996, Authorize.Net has been a leading provider of payment gateway services, managing the submission of billions of transactions to the processing networks on behalf of merchant customers.
	Datacash Group Plc (MasterCard) Datacash Group Plc was originally founded as a payment gateway procided to cater to the needs of merchants requiring e-commerce services. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of MasterCard in 2010.
	MasterCard WorldWide MasterCard has a range of alternate payment services within contactless payments, remittances and online payments.
	Simplify Commerce (MasterCard) MasterCard has developed Simplify Commerce that allows merchants to accept credit and debit card payments online. At present, Simplify Commerce may be used only by businesses and individuals in USA.
	Cash Passport The Prepaid Travel Card MasterCard allows you to purchase goods and services from millions of locations, as well as access to local currency from more than one million ATMs worldwide.
	World Worldwide the payments market remains fragmented with many different payment services and technologies, drivers, business models and value chains.
	Travelex-Mastercard Travelex Cash Passport Mastercard; Standard Chartered First Bank & Bc Card
	Authorize.Net (CybesSource, Visa) Since 1996, Authorize.Net has been a leading provider of payment gateway services, managing the submission of billions of transactions to the processing networks on behalf of merchant customers.
	Simplify Commerce (MasterCard) MasterCard has developed Simplify Commerce that allows merchants to accept credit and debit card payments online. At present, Simplify Commerce may be used only by businesses and individuals in USA.
	Visa Inc. - International 201007: Acquired CyberSource Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network providing processing services and payment product platforms. This includes consumer credit, debit, prepaid and commercial payments, which are offered un
	Banknet Banknet is MasterCard’s global telecommunications network. It is the foundation of their payments processing platform and is built as a virtual private network (VPN).
	MasterPass Wallet Brazil MasterCard has launched a digital wallet MasterPass for use via multiple channels. It can be used online, on mobile phones and for in-store purchases.
	MasterPass Wallet MasterPass by MasterCard is the way to pay online with the multi-tiered security of the MasterCard network in partnership with a consumer bank.
	MasterPass Wallet - Europe MasterCard has launched a digital wallet MasterPass for use via multiple channels. It can be used online, on mobile phones and for in-store purchases.
	Simplify Commerce by MasterCard MasterCard Simplify Commerce is offered to merchants as a hosted payments service. With just a few lines of HTML it is claimed they can use Simplify's secure hosted payment form for their payments.
	Visa Mobile Money - Kenya Visa Inc. launched their new plug-and-play mobile money platform to offer bank-grade financial services with simplified transactions in February 2016, claimed to be more cost-efficient for financial institutions and mobile operators.
	Visa Mobile Money Visa Inc. launched their new plug-and-play mobile money platform to offer bank-grade financial services with simplified transactions in February 2016, claimed to be more cost-efficient for financial institutions and mobile operators.
	Banknet Banknet is MasterCard’s global telecommunications network. It is the foundation of their payments processing platform and is built as a virtual private network (VPN).
	MasterPass Wallet MasterPass by MasterCard is the way to pay online with the multi-tiered security of the MasterCard network in partnership with a consumer bank.
	Chunghwa Mobile Payment With Visa and Chinatrust Chunghwa Trials Mobile Payment With Visa and Chinatrust
	Visa, Maxis NFC Trials Visa and Maxis conducted the first payWave Trial in Malaysia, where Visa had first introduced Visa contactless cards.
	Simplify Commerce MasterCard Simplify Commerce is offered to merchants as a hosted payments service. With just a few lines of HTML it is claimed they can use Simplify's secure hosted payment form for their payments.
	Visa Mobile Money Visa Inc. launched their new plug-and-play mobile money platform to offer bank-grade financial services with simplified transactions in February 2016, claimed to be more cost-efficient for financial institutions and mobile operators.

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