Tagged: payments

September 10, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial super app with over 20 million retail customers, has launched Revolut Pay – a new secure online checkout feature which “allows UK and EEA merchants to present ‘Revolut Pay’ as a payment method across product, cart, and checkout pages.” Revolut Pay… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo has announced a new partnership with Simplex by Nuvei, an EU-licensed financial institution that “empowers its vast network of partners to accept the widest range of payment methods.” This partnership will “provide users around the world with seamless onramps and offramps to NEO, GAS,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lavu, a global restaurant software and payments solution provider built by restaurant people, and Up ‘n go, a contactless payments provider that powers QR code pay at the table solutions for restaurants nationwide, announced a partnership that integrates Up ‘n go’s pay at the table… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the past five years, consumers and businesses, small and large, have sent more than five billion Zelle payments, “totaling nearly $1.5 trillion,” according to Early Warning Services, LLC, the network operator of Zelle. Zelle users have “leveraged the convenience and security of Zelle to gift… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 5:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mesh Payments, the insight-driven finance automation platform, recently announced $60 million in new financing, “bringing the total amount raised to $123 million.” Alpha Wave leads the equity round “with participation from existing investors, including Tiger Global, TLV Partners, Entreé Capital, and Meron Capital.” The proceeds… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Creditcare Technology, a multinational consumer finance company, announced that they have partnered with MoneyGram International, Inc., a key player in the evolution of digital P2P payments, in order to expand further into the emerging markets of the Philippines, Vietnam, and, other world regions with Moneygram…. Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maps.me, alongside Monavate, announced a new prepaid card offering, powered by Mastercard (NYSE: MA). Today’s consumers are digital, borderless, and proving “to be increasingly open to using financial products that are integrated with apps that they use daily and trust.” With a waiting list of more… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Frayt Technologies Inc., a shipping and technology company that connects enterprises with on-demand delivery services, has selected the workforce payments platform Branch in order “to provide their network of 10,000+ drivers accelerated payments, fee-free financial services, and cash flow management tools.” Founded in 2018, Frayt… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Live Oak Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ: LOB), is reporting that it made a $28 million gain on its exit of Payrailz which wsa purchased by Jack Henry & Associates – a banking tech provider. Payrailz is a digital payments… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Inswitch has partnered with Binance Pay to “improve their fintech solutions and offer Binance Pay to all merchants in Latin America.” Inswitch is an embedded Fintech platform aiming to help financial services provides to quickly provide digital offeerings. Binance Pay, part of Binance, is crypto… Read More

September 5, 2022 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConnectWise, which claims to be the world’s leading software company dedicated to the success of IT solution providers, announced it has acquired Wise-Sync, an integrated payment automation platform and “long-term” partner in the ConnectWise ecosystem. The acquisition will pair ConnectWise’s IT solution provider (TSP) software… Read More

September 1, 2022 @ 1:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Federal Reserve has reportedly changed the timing of the introduction of its real-time payments solution, called FedNow, to the middle of 2023. The US Federal Reserve is aiming for a full-scale production rollout of the new payments service for somewhere between May and July… Read More

August 31, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spreedly, the provider of the leading Payment Orchestration platform, and PPRO, the  provider of digital payments infrastructure, announced a partnership “to offer a diverse portfolio of alternative / local payment methods (APM / LPMs) through the Spreedly platform.” Spreedly and PPRO have partnered “to offer… Read More

August 31, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bango plc (AIM:BGO), the global platform for data-driven commerce, announces that it has acquired the global payments business of NTT DOCOMO. In addition, Bango has signed “a long-term platform deal with NTT DOCOMO to provide payment services in Japan for the world’s largest merchants.” DOCOMO… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users of the NFT marketplace, iNFTSpace, can now enjoy more direct purchases of digital artworks via Alchemy Pay’s fiat-to-crypto gateway plugin. This on/off ramp is now being “integrated across all areas of blockchain.” For up and coming projects, such as iNFTspace, this is “the first… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of payments and financial services technology with a growing presence in New Jersey, is reportedly partnering with Rutgers University-Newark “to create and fund a new program designed to drive diversity and innovation within the financial technology field.” The… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Karachi-headquartered Fintech firm Safepay HQ is reportedly going live with Cybersource (a product of payments service provider Visa) in order to bring Pakistani merchants new ways to allow their clients to pay them online. Safepay is a payment service provider that has reportedly received pilot… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments provider, and Johnstone Supply, a cooperative wholesale distributor in the HVACR industry, recently announced a strategic collaboration that will “help their 90+ individual Johnstone Business Owners take control of the order-to-cash process.” Billtrust has… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NearPay, a crypto finance protocol, has officially launched virtual crypto cards and its Wallet for iOS and Android “to bring the modern digital banking experience to the world of crypto.” NearPay Wallet is now “available on all platforms, including Web, iOS and Android. With NearPay… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research released by specialized payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE) reveals how retailers “may be missing out by not accepting payments in crypto.” A significant 80% of crypto owners “want to pay for goods with their crypto balances but are held back by a lack of… Read More