EghtesadOnline: Close to 1.84 billion transactions worth more than 2.44 quadrillion rials ($16.94 billion) were registered by Shaparak, Iran’s payment settlement network, in the calendar month that ended on September 22.

EghtesadOnline: Money transfer company TransferWise has launched a new service that allows users to send money internationally through Facebook Inc's chat application, as competition in the digital payments landscape intensifies.

EghtesadOnline: Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s Twitter feed has come alive these past two weeks. From a roadside egg-seller in Bhopal to a soda hawker in Bangalore, the founder of Paytm has posted snapshots of the unusual array of merchants who ply the teeming streets of India -- and are now turning to his digital payments startup for help.