Tagged: payments

June 22, 2022 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Nium has partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit that supports the growth of public blockchain Stellar, to enable payouts to 190 countries. According to Nium by leveraging Stellar the payments and transfers improve upon the traditional correspondent banking system. Joaquin Auyso, Head… Read More

June 22, 2022 @ 1:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Formance, a French Fintech firm that provides businesses with a low-code template for tracking payment flows in real-time, has secured $3.1 million in capital from Hoxton Ventures, Frst, Y Combinator and several business angels. Established last year by Clément Salaün and Anne-Sybille Pradelles, Fomance provides… Read More

June 21, 2022 @ 3:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Steven, which keeps track of costs shared between friends and family, and are on a mission be the “number 1 solution” for controlling your personal finances in Sweden and in their target markets, has secured 114% (€685,470) of its €600,000 target (at the time of… Read More

June 20, 2022 @ 5:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quavo Fraud & Disputes, the provider of cloud-based fraud and dispute management SaaS solutions for issuers, announced its partnership with the omnichannel payments platform Qolo “to reduce dispute processing costs and fraud losses for issuing financial institutions.” Quavo’s Disputes as a Service™ offering “features automated… Read More

June 17, 2022 @ 6:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Episode Six, a global payment and banking infrastructure provider, announced a new relationship with Galaxy FinX, Vietnam’s Fintech builder that is “re-shaping” the future of money and banking in the country. The deal “represents two firsts for Episode Six: a partnership in Vietnam as well… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest recently revealed that it’s introducing a QR code-based version of its online payment service PayIt in order to help companies accept faster payments of invoices. Available within the NatWest Business Banking App and using PayIt as the tech backbone, the feature, called PayMe, allows… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Flip, Indonesia’s consumer payments platform, announced a second close of a Series B funding round “led by Tencent, with participation from Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) and existing investor Insight Partners.” A number of experienced operators “participated meaningfully in this extension round, including Guillaume Pousaz,… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BANCOMAT S.p.A and Discover signed a strategic agreement that “increases acceptance for Discover, Diners Club International and network alliance cardholders, all part of the Discover Global Network.” This new partnership will “give cardholders the ability to use their cards and mobile payment products on the… Read More

June 15, 2022 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

​Co-op Solutions and Constellation Digital Partners recently announced that the two credit union service organizations have established a task force of mutual customers to speed up the integration of Co-op digital apps into Constellation’s online and mobile banking platform. Gail Tofil, VP, Strategic Business Development,… Read More

June 15, 2022 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C2FO, which claims to be the largest global platform for working capital, recently announced the launch of the C2FO CashFlow+™ Card, a new option that “enables businesses to accelerate invoice payment without the discount typically required in exchange for early payment.” The CashFlow+ Card “puts… Read More

June 15, 2022 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After the appointment of Jason Levy to lead its Strategic Development and Partnership plans in the charity sector, digital payments provider PayPoint is launching PayPoint Donate. PayPoint Donate brings together a digital solution to offer charities and their supply partners with an integrated platform to… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LHV UK, a banking services provider to more than 200 Fintech and crypto firms, is pleased to announce its Confirmation of Payee (CoP) service is currently live for all its direct clients. Introduced in July 2020, CoP is a fraud prevention system that’s led by… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SurePay, the Confirmation of Payee provider, announced that it has supported Virgin Money with the implementation of its UK Confirmation of Payee solution in order to protect consumers against fraudulent activities and misdirected payments. Confirmation of Payee is a way of giving users more assurance… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ComfortDelGro Taxi and Alipay+ recently announced a partnership that enables mobile payments from Malaysia and South Korea, “namely the Touch ‘n Go eWallet and Kakao Pay, to be accepted as cashless payment options in all its Comfort and CityCab taxis.” Users of these mobile wallets… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram, which claims to be an international “leader” in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source public blockchain that allows money to be tokenized and transferred globally,… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentinels, a Fenergo company and Europe’s intelligent transaction monitoring platform, has been appointed by payments fintech kevin. “to handle transaction monitoring compliance.” The relationship means kevin. now “detects suspicious transactions in real-time while ensuring compliance with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.” kevin.’s account-to-account (A2A) payment… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a global business payments company, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement “to acquire the Global Reach Group, a UK-based cross-border payments provider.” With the acquisition, FLEETCOR increases its cross-border payments scale and strengthens its position “as one of… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll Finance, a “next-generation” Fintech offering “smart” financing solutions to homeowners, recently announced that Modulr, the embedded payments platform, will be powering its underlying payments infrastructure. The partnership will “enable Scroll to accelerate its mission to disrupt the homeowner financing sector in the UK.” Scroll… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi, the European Paytech, and Zuora, the Cloud-enabled subscription management platform provider, announced a partnership in the e-commerce sector: XPay, the gateway of Nexi for e-commerce, is now powered by payment services from Zuora. With Zuora, which powers the “full” quote to cash and revenue… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a specialized payments platform, has teamed up with APEXX Global, the international payments orchestration platform, in order to offer Paysafe’s payment processing services to APEXX Global’s merchant base. Via this collaboration, APEXX Global will “support its merchants to scale globally by increasing… Read More