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Facebook and PayPal invest in Indonesian app Gojek

Facebook and PayPal have invested in Gojek, the Indonesian firm which began life as a ride-hailing app but has since moved heavily into payments and financial services.

03 June 2020

News/payments

Google tests voice confirmation for payments

Google is piloting a feature that lets people authorise purchases with their voice through its Assistant tool.

27 May 2020

News/cloud

Intesa Sanpaolo to build Google Cloud centres in Milan and Turin

Intesa Sanpaolo has entered discussion with Google and data centre operator TIM on the creation of two ambitious cloud-based infrastructure projects.

21 May 2020

Company announcement/payments

Worldpay provides merchants with one-click integration to Google Pay

FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, today announced the addition of Google Pay to its Hosted Payment Page (HPP) product for online merchants.

05 May 2020

Company announcement/wholesale

Google and UOB expand SME Leadership Academy capacity ten-fold

Google and UOB today announced the new curriculum for the SME Leadership Academy1 training programme has been customised to help business leaders of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the retail, tourism and food and beverage (F&B) sectors respond to the unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

27 April 2020

Finextra TV/cloud

GFT hailed Google Cloud's 2019 Partner of the Year

David Collins, Executive Board member and Managing Director for the GFT Atlantic region & Karl Havard, Head of Google Cloud Alliance at GFT speak to Hannah Wallace, Finextra about receiving the Google Cloud 2019 EMEA Breakthrough Partner of the Year Award, GFT's growing team of engineers, specializations and relationship with Google Cloud, how this relationship is enhancing value for their customers and the impact it is having on the business overall.

21 April 2020

News/payments

Google preps debit card - TechCrunch

Google could soon follow Apple in launching its own branded payments card, according to TechCrunch.

17 April 2020

News/payments

OCBC brings Google Pay P2P payments to Singapore

OCBC Bank has become the first financial institution to bring Google Pay’s peer-to-peer funds transfer service to Singapore.

15 April 2020

News/identity

Mizuho Bank to build and test Digital ID

Mizuho Bank has begun proof-of-concept trials of Digital ID based on device location and facial recognition to improve online banking authentication and ongoing customer due diligence.

14 April 2020

News/covid-19

Google launches bot to help organisations answer Covid-19 questions

Google Cloud has launched a rapid response AI chatbot to help organisations, such as banks, handle ballooning customer service queries during the Covid-19 pandemic.

08 April 2020

Company announcement

GFT wins Google Cloud 2019 Breakthrough Partner of the Year award for Emea

GFT, a global IT services and software engineering provider driving the digital transformation of the world’s leading companies in the financial and insurance sectors, and the manufacturing industry, wins the prestigious ‘Google Cloud 2019 EMEA Breakthrough Partner of the Year’ award.

07 April 2020

News/wholesale

Sberbank and Google organise Hangouts for businesses working remotely

Sberbank and Google are to run a series of online business seminars, or Hangouts, to dole out advice to companies running their operations remotely during the Coronavirus clamp down.

03 April 2020