Search Results for: payu

August 2, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rapyd, the global Fintech-as-a-Service provider, announced the acquisition of PayU Global Payment Organization (GPO; not including PayU’s India, Turkey, and Southeast Asia operations) of Netherlands-based Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. PayU GPO, a provider… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KreditBee, which claims to be one of India’s leading fintech platforms, announced its partnership with PayU, a digital payments solution provider. Together, they offer customers the option “to convert their online purchases worth between ₹2400 up to ₹2 lakhs into easy cardless EMIs during checkout.”… Read More

September 30, 2022 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments provider PayU has distributed a survey that queried US consumers that claims there is a big opportunity for international merchants to capitalize on US consumer demand not being met domestically. According to PayU: 48% of Americans who have bought online from retailers based abroad… Read More

September 15, 2022 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

PayU has received regulatory approval to acquire Tecnipagos S.A., doing business as Ding, a company providing electronic payments and deposits in Colombia. PayU is the payments operation of Prosus. In a corporate statement, PayU noted that it is present in more than 50 markets around… Read More

April 20, 2022 @ 10:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Treinta, a super-app that aims to provide SMEs with a range of services supporting these firms across the Latam region, has raised a large $46 million Series A funding. According to the company’s website, in Latin America there are more than 50 million microenterprises, of… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 1:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Southeast Asian open finance platform Ayoconnect has closed a $15 million Series B financing round led by Tiger Global. The round was joined by PayU, the payments and Fintech business of Prosus, and Alto Partners, as well as individual strategic investors, including Plaid co-founder William… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 5:56 am By JD Alois  |  

PayU has partnered with SBM Bank India to launch LazyCard, a prepaid card backed by a credit line. LazyPay is PayU’s BNPL solution. According to a company statement, the card aims at empowering the financially underserved with easy access to credit. LazyCard is said to… Read More

November 4, 2021 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Latam Fintech PayU says it will hit $8 billion and 300 million transactions in 2021. PayU says it has experienced an 80% user growth since 2019. PayU is a is the payments and Fintech business of Prosus and a leading online payment service provider, operating… Read More

August 17, 2021 @ 4:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

PayU, this week announced its controlled company Red Dot Payment, a Southeast Asia-focused online payment solutions provider, has received direct acquiring licenses and connectivity to Visa and Mastercard. The expansion of PayU’s offering in South East Asia with Red Dot Payment’s direct credit card acquiring… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Payment service PayU has announced a partnership with Visa. According to a release, PayU is launching its Card Push service to provide businesses with efficient payments. By leveraging Visa Direct, a real-time push payments platform, businesses using PayU Card Push will be able to instantly… Read More

February 2, 2021 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech PayU has partnered with Silverflow, a cloud-based payments processing startup, to offer Payment Service Providers (PSPs) a new card acquiring process. According to a release, by combining Silverflow’s direct connection to the card networks with PayU’s acquiring capabilities, the two companies will improve… Read More

January 28, 2021 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Payments provider PayU has partnered with Twisto, a Czech Fintech offering deferred payments, in Poland to bring more payment options to the ‘PayU Pay Later’ platform. The “Buy Now Pay Later” (BNPL) service is available to current online retailers using the PayU platform. Since February… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India Fintech Forum, a non-profit Fintech advocacy group, revealed on November 24, 2020, that it had shortlisted 27 financial technology firms for its 5th installment of India Fintech Awards (IFTA). The Fintechs will be presenting live demos to the event judges, beginning on November 30… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Remitly, a U.S.-based online money transfer service, announced on Wednesday it secured $85 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Prosus’s PayU, at a $1.5 billion valuation. Generation Investment Management, Owl Rock Capital, Stripes, DN Capital, Top Tier, Princeville Global, and Threshold… Read More

April 6, 2020 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based PayU, a leading payment gateway, has introduced several projects and measures,  in order to assist local vendors, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and business owners in dealing with the disruption due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The initiatives launched by PayU will help businesses… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 10:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dot, a digital transformation platform for offline to online commerce, has received $8 million in funding led by PayU and Fosun RZ Capital with participation from Info Edge Ventures and more. Dot was founded by PayU India’s ex co-founder Shailaz Nag. Dot says it currently… Read More

January 10, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global online payment service provider PayU announced on Friday it is merging consumer lending business LazyPay and digital credit platform PaySense to build a full-stack digital lending platform in India. PayU reported it will acquire a controlling stake in PaySense and all its assets at… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

PayU, Naspers’ payments firm, is expanding into Southeast Asia through the acquisition of a majority stake in Red Dot Payment (RDP), a Singapore-based online payment Fintech. RDP currently serves more than 500 merchants in 22 countries. RDP supports global and local alternate payment methods such… Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 10:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a couple months after acquiring digital payments company, Wibmo, global online payment service provider PayU has now acquired Turkish digital payments provider, iyzico, for $165 million. PayU reported that the acquisition adds to the more than $500 million that the company has deployed across… Read More

April 12, 2019 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global online payment service provider PayU announced on Friday it has acquired digital payments company Wibmo for $70 million. PayU reported that the acquisition combines its merchant network and Wibmo’s leadership in digital transaction security solutions to offer payments solutions to merchants and financial institutions in India and… Read More