Tagged: payments

December 7, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Airwallex has partnered with open banking platform Plaid. The agreement will see Airwallex offer an integrated solution for Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments. Airwallex said this will enable a more seamless and cost-efficient way to authorize debits from bank accounts into Airwallex accounts.  Users will… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sometimes, innovation comes “out of frustration.” That was “certainly” the case for kennek, the vertical software solution for lenders. As Thibault Lancksweert, kennek Founder and Co-CEO notes: “Our motivation for starting kennek stemmed from our own frustrations as lenders. We found that, despite the many… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant payments, also called real-time payments, are a form of electronic payment “that is available 24/7/365, with the payment processed and funds made available tothe recipient instantly.” the team at Juniper Research explains. However, there is “not a singularly accepted definition of instant payments, with… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 11:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2C2P, a global payments platform and merchant commerce omnichannel platform Pine Labs have partnered to expand Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) “across Asia in six key markets, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.” Unlike other BNPL offerings, Pine Labs claims that… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YAI, a New York-based organization dedicated to providing innovative services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), has partnered with DailyPay, the provider of on-demand pay. Through the partnership, YAI is among “the first I/DD employers to implement DailyPay for its frontline, direct-care employees.”… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a payments platform, announced a partnership with Virgin Voyages, Richard Branson’s lifestyle travel brand “focused on delivering irresistible cruise vacations for adult travelers.” Paysafe will “ensure travelers can quickly and securely pay online for their next cruise with Virgin Voyages, whose payments… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PAYDOCK, the payments orchestration platform, has partnered with major Australian banking group The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in order “to launch PowerBoard, a uniquely simple solution for a merchant’s technology integrations, payments, and fraud prevention needs.” Delivering a “first” in Australian banking, PowerBoard will… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nordic open banking provider, Neonomics, has decided to support UNICEF Norway in order “to make donating this holiday period easier and more secure by harnessing the power of open banking payments.” The holiday period is “the most important time of year for charities, but with… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE:AXP) announced Amex Business Link™, a new business-to-business (B2B) payments ecosystem for network issuing and acquiring participants “to offer to their business customers.” Amex Business Link “makes managing payments easier for buyers and suppliers of all sizes by accepting card and non-card payments… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A chargeback is the formal process initiated when a cardholder disputes a payment – “often leading to the cardholder being reimbursed directly by their issuing bank, which then obtains the funds from the merchant,” according to an update from Chargebacks 911. The update further noted… Read More

November 30, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) a software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, and Conferma Pay, a global fintech firm that specializes in payment technology, announced a new partnership with Mastercard in orrder “to accelerate the use of virtual cards for business-to-business (B2B)… Read More

November 30, 2022 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BFH), a “tech-forward” financial services company that provides simple, flexible payment, lending and saving solutions, announced a new relationship with Versatile Credit Inc., a provider of innovative solutions “linking bank lenders with consumers applying for credit in retail stores.” Through… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The payment fraud market faces “a number of challenges which makes it uniquely suited to the wide-scale deployment of fraud prevention systems,” according to an update from Juniper Research. The update from Juniper Research notes that one major feature that AI systems possess is “the… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Banking Circle’s web3 payments solution, payments businesses and banks can process asset-backed stablecoin settlements “in the same way as fiat currencies, providing their customers with faster settlement and lower fees outside of traditional bank rails.” Banking Circle‘s USDC stablecoins solution can be “utilized for… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the cloud-based payments service provider, announced a partnership with Xiaomi in order “to provide an end-to-end payment solution for its Hong Kong and Macau payments.” The partnership will “enable Xiaomi to greatly simplify the payment process to support its global payment strategy and development… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Infineon Technologies AG and Fingerprint Cards AB announced the signing of a joint development and commercialization agreement of a plug-and-play turnkey solution for “a biometric payment smart card.” The goal of the cooperation is “to make biometric smart card production as simple and easy as… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, a global cross-border payments network, announced that it has partnered with Tencent Financial Technology, Tencent’s fintech arm, “becoming the first payment infrastructure partner connecting with it.” This collaboration will “allow members of Thunes‘ global network to send international payments to Weixin users, giving them… Read More

November 26, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moneycorp, the global foreign exchange and payments provider with more than £38 billion of trades across 120 different currencies, has implemented an API and distribution agreement with BankClarity, which claims to be the leading banking tech provider to non-bank financial institutions. The partnership means that… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, the global gateway for open banking payments in Europe, the UK and Brazil, and Kriptomat, one of the “fastest-growing” European cryptocurrency exchange platforms, are announcing a partnership “to enable Kriptomat customers throughout Europe to make real-time account-to-account payments to buy, sell and exchange cryptocurrencies.”… Read More

November 24, 2022 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conduent Incorporated (Nasdaq: CNDT), a global technology-led business process solutions company, announced the launch of its new Digital Integrated Payments Hub enabling businesses and public sector agencies “to access secure, faster, and cost-effective options to send, request or receive payments.” By integrating the payment capabilities… Read More