Tagged: payments

April 27, 2022 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayByCar, Inc., the mobile payments Fintech responsible for offering pay-by-text payments at gas stations across Massachusetts, has confirmed the completion of a $4 million seed round of funding. Anand Raman, President, and co-founder of PayByCar, stated: “Following a string of successes since our 2020 pre-seed… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CellPoint Digital, which claims to be a leading international provider of digital commerce and payment solutions, recently announced a partnership with global e-commerce platform for video gamers, MTC Game. An international retailer, MTC Game provides “an online platform for digital codes and services to gamers.”… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 4:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL), a global payments platform, has reported Q1 numbers of $6.483 billion versus same period last year of $6.033 billion – a 7% growth. Earnings per share (EPS) came in at $0.88 compared to $1.22 in Q1’21. GAAP was pegged at an EPS of… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 9:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be Europe’s leading Open Banking platform, has reinforced its reputation as an “industry innovator,” with the availability of its unique Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) API for sweeping and non-sweeping, “changing the way customers make and manage ecommerce payments, subscriptions, utility bills… Read More

April 26, 2022 @ 8:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talus Pay, which claims to be a fast-growing tech-driven provider of payment processing solutions for small and mid-sized merchants, is pleased to confirm that payments industry veteran Bryan Fricke has joined the firm as Chief Revenue Officer. Fricke will be “responsible for the performance, strategy… Read More

April 26, 2022 @ 12:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  The Experian Global Insights Report reveals that digital online spending will continue “to gain strength even as consumers emerge from lockdown and return to in-person transactions.” As noted in an update shared with CI, consumers are also “engaging with digital payments as much as… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK based Greg Rowe Limited, which has designed and manufactured multi-functional kitchen taps for 50+ years, including the “unique” four-in-one QETTLE, has upgraded its contact center and payment security technology “to handle an increase in call and payment volumes to the company’s customer service team.”… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments as a service provider, Answer Pay, has reportedly made key appointments to bolster its plans “to support the growth of Request to Pay across Europe.” Following on from the recent award of grant funding from the UK government’s Department for International Trade and its… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, the global payments platform, is partnering with Twitter to enable payments with cryptocurrency. In a blog post on Friday, Stripe said they are introducing crypto payouts for Connect. Stripe Connect is a set of programmable APIs and tools that allow a user to build… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Nexio, a payments Fintech, has revealed a partnership with Chargebacks911 – a dispute technology specialist. Nexio points to research that indicates that every $1 in chargebacks costs a merchant $2.86. In addition to the liability and reputational threat imposed on merchants, chargebacks also bring expensive… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiat-crypto payments provider, Alchemy Pay (ACH), has teamed up with merchant payment provider, ePayments, in order to provide cryptocurrency payments and services in New Zealand and Australia. ePayments will integrate with Alchemy Pay “to provide to their merchants with crypto payment acceptance, as well as… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gr4vy, a Cloud-native payments company, recently announced new partnerships with Boku and EBANX to quickly give merchants access to local payment methods “in new geographies.” These partnerships will fuel international growth and revenue “while reducing risk, resource burden and the overall total cost of ownership.”… Read More

April 23, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments leader, recently announced that it has expanded its Business Payments Network (BPN) provider relationship “with KeyBank to include B2B invoice delivery in addition to capturing payments and processing remittance data through its first-of-its-kind digital… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) have announced that they are entering into an agreement with international payment processor EBANX in order to offer an end-to-end digital collection solution (eCommerce) “for Citi’s institutional clients in Latin America.” Citi’s clients will be able “to accept more… Read More

April 20, 2022 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MYPINPAD, which claims to be an international leader in mobile-based payments acceptance and digital authentication solutions, and SmartPesa, a provider of payments and agency banking solutions, have “agreed to merge.” The combined entity will “operate under the MYPINPAD brand.” Customers will benefit from greater scale,… 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

April 19, 2022 @ 5:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ChargeSentry Inc. recently announced support for more than 100 additional payment processors. Until now, ChargeSentry has only offered its automated chargeback response service “to Stripe and PayPal merchants, but due to [steady] demand, they quickly saw a need to extend support to a broader e-commerce… Read More

April 19, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CipherTrace, a Mastercard Company, has reported a significant increase in the number of payments “made to ransomware groups in 2021.” The growth in this criminal enterprise “is so large that the first six months of 2021 saw payments that matched the whole of 2020.” With… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EBANX, a payments Fintech with an international presence, and VTEX, a digital commerce platform for large firms and retailers, has announced a partnership aimed at “broadening cross-border payments for Brazilian e-commerce companies in Latin America.” Via this collaboration, Brazilian firms will be able to enjoy… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Ant Group, an offshoot of Alibaba and the owner of the largest payment platform in China – Alipay, has partnered with 2C2P – a global payments platform. Simultaneously it was announced that Ant Group will become the majority shareholder of 2C2P upon completion of the… Read More