September 28, 2022 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States,  launched a new industry resource, the Use Case Repository in its Faster Payments Knowledge Center. Supported by The Clearing House, the FPC Education & Awareness… Read More

 Tagged charles harkness, faster payments, fpc, payments, steven wasserman, united states, us, us faster payments council

September 28, 2022 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chase, which is reportedly one of the largest co-brand card issuers in the U.S., and DoorDash, the local commerce platform, announced plans “to launch the first-ever DoorDash credit card, with Mastercard as the exclusive payments network for the new card.” The DoorDash Rewards Mastercard will… Read More

 Tagged chase, credit cards, digital transactions, doordash, ed olebe, mastercard, Payment Cards, sherri haymond, united states, us, usman cheema

September 28, 2022 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thriday, the “all-in-one” financial management platform, takes another leap on its mission to become the fastest way for SMEs “to manage their banking, accounting, and tax with a circa $6 million pre-Series A round led by NAB Ventures and significant participation from existing investor Lempriere… Read More

 Tagged andrew irvine, ben winford, financial management, investment round, lempriere capital, michael nuciforo, NAB, nab ventures, small businesses, smbs, sme's, thriday

September 28, 2022 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recurly, Inc., a subscription management and billing platform for high-growth brands, has announced an agreement to acquire LeapRev, a revenue recognition and forecasting solution. This acquisition will “create a single source for subscription management, recurring billing, and revenue management that empowers Recurly customers to better… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, billing platform, dan burkhart, forecasting solution, jonas flodh, leaprev, recurly, revenue recognition, subscription management

September 28, 2022 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, which claims to be the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, announced that ACH Colombia, a financial technology company, “has gone live with a new banking portal featuring a superior digital payments experience aligned with the social media and ecommerce platforms… Read More

 Tagged ach colombia, cloud, colombia, digital payments, financial messaging, latam, latin america, luis alberto fernández pulido, payments, South America, vijay oddiraju, volante, volante technologies

September 28, 2022 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zepz, the group making remittance payments fair, fast and affordable by powering global cross-border remittance brands WorldRemit and Sendwave, recently announced the 2021 financial results that will be “published in its upcoming Companies House Listing Annual Report as well as an H1 ‘22 performance update,… Read More

 Tagged cross-border payments, Cross-Border Transactions, digital payments, financial report, global payments, international payments, mark lenhard, new appointments, payments, progress report, robert mitchell, sendwave, worldremit, zepz

September 27, 2022 @ 10:30 pm By João Vitor Menin  |  

When COVID-19 cases first appeared in late 2019, its contagion abilities were wildly unanticipated by world leaders, and it was ungracefully downplayed by mainstream media. This caused a subsequent uncontrollable outbreak that eventually dampened the quality of life for billions and dented economies across the… Read More

 Tagged banking, brazil, inter&co, joão vitor menin, payments, remittance, remittances, transfers

September 27, 2022 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Samsung, which claims to be India’s largest consumer electronics company, and Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank, have partnered “to launch an exclusive co- branded credit card, powered by Visa.” With the Samsung Axis Bank Credit Card, consumers will “get 10% cashback across… Read More

 Tagged amitabh chaudhry, axis bank, consumer electronics, credit cards, india, ken kang, samsung, sandeep ghosh, visa

September 27, 2022 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that the life insurance and pensions company Irish Life has chosen Stripe as “a strategic payments provider for its Smart Invest app.” The partnership will “make it easier for Smart Invest users to initiate both one-off and… Read More

 Tagged eileen o’mara, financial infrastructure, infrastructure, irish life, life insurance, payments, pensions, shane carroll, smart-invest, stripe

September 27, 2022 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB) announced at its first Investor Day that it is targeting to achieve breakeven on a Group Adjusted EBITDA basis “by the second half of 2024, as it accelerates its path to profitability.” For the second half of 2022, Group Adjusted… Read More

 Tagged alex hungate, anthony tan, digital financial services, financial report, financial services, grab, grab holdings limited, profitability, progress report, singapore, southeast asia