Recently, Hana Bank’s Travel GO Check PLAVE Limited Edition design card, in collaboration with the virtual idol group PLAVE, caused much confusion on its first release day. The server crashed after launching, and the event was criticized for exploiting fan loyalty and encouraging excessive spending. This card was limited to 30,000 copies, and users were […]
Penn State reveals seven figure payment for Nevada home-opener
The Penn State Nittany Lions open the 2025 college football season at home against Nevada. The game is the first of three non-conference games before the Nittany Lions welcome Oregon to Beaver Stadium. Penn State will welcome the Wolf Pack, FIU and Villanova this season as the three non-conference “buy games,” where a lower level […]
Payment platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’
A new startup, Lava Payments, aims to take on payment giants by building a solution for the modern web where AI agents now handle transactions for their customers. The idea came to founder Mitchell Jones after he left his earlier Y Combinator-backed fintech startup, Lendtable, as he began to experiment with AI. He saw the […]
India weighs easing market share limits for UPI payment operators
The governing body overseeing India’s popular UPI payments rail is considering easing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm as it struggles to enforce limitations, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI), a special unit of India’s central bank, is considering increasing […]
X is getting closer to launching its payment service
X (formerly Twitter) appears to be making progress on its upcoming payments system, bringing it closer to Elon Musk’s vision of turning X into an “everything app.” According to a recent finding by app researcher Nima Owji, the company is working on adding a “Payments” button to the navigation bar under the bookmarks tab. Owji, […]