{"id":180283,"date":"2024-09-10T04:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-chitchat-mastercard-launch-debit-card-for-cross-border-payments\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T04:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:54:36","slug":"zambia-chitchat-mastercard-launch-debit-card-for-cross-border-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-chitchat-mastercard-launch-debit-card-for-cross-border-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Chitchat, Mastercard Launch Debit Card for Cross-Border Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ChitChat partners with Mastercard for virtual debit cards, enabling cross-border payments and in-app transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Users can store funds in multiple currencies to protect against local currency fluctuations.<\/li>\n<li>ChitChat app facilitates subscriptions payment, online shopping, and money transfers within and outside Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/onchitchat.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ChitChat<\/a>, a Zambian social commerce platform, has partnered with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/global\/en.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastercard<\/a> to launch virtual debit cards for cross-border payments. This follows ChitChat&#8217;s March 2024 debut&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090663.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR ChitChat partners with Mastercard for virtual debit cards, enabling cross-border payments and in-app transactions. Users can store funds in multiple currencies to protect against local currency fluctuations. ChitChat app facilitates subscriptions payment, online shopping, and money transfers within and outside Africa. ChitChat, a Zambian social commerce platform, has partnered with Mastercard to launch virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,9810,49479,6503,45495,5741,23975,257,6841,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-180283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-card","tag-chitchat","tag-crossborder","tag-debit","tag-launch","tag-mastercard","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}