Tagged: payments

January 10, 2022 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Indian Fintech Zeta says that it has been a great year in the US. Their journey is just getting started, the company reveals in an update. Bhavin Turakhia, Co-founder and CEO at Zeta, notes that he’d like to share a short recap… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 12:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex notes that the world of e-commerce is “changing rapidly.” As consumers continue to drift away from the high street into the “outstretched arms” of digital commerce marketers, brands are “upping their game.” Airwallex writes in a report that we should no longer just show… Read More

January 8, 2022 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK Fintech Modulr has done some research in order to find out what “makes paying passengers leave, and what makes them come back.” As noted in a blog post by Modulr, digital transformation has “been on the collective agenda for years.” It’s… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Wilson, ex-FCA advisor and TrueLayer’s Head of Public Policy, notes that he’s responsible for coordinating how the firm “influences” public policy (government and regulators) to ensure the appropriate conditions for the company’s growth across the United Kingdom, European Union, internationally. A lot of the… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

If you’ve sent or received a payment from a friend or family member, you might have used either Zelle or Venmo to complete the transaction. These Fintech payment services enable consumers to send and receive local personal payments easily, with simply an email address or… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 11:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian payments Fintech Paytm says that one of things they are proud of is their 23 million merchant partners, who have chosen them for the “trusted” and secure payments experience. Paytm writes in a blog post that they’ve built their leadership in the peer-to-merchants space,… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Providing a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) option to your clients may help with boosting conversion 20-30% and average cart sizes 30-50%, according to an RBC Capital report. As mentioned in a blog post by Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), these benefits could make a significant difference… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard writes in an update that the future of physical retail is “slowly making its way into your daily life.” As noted by Mastercard (NYSE: MA), you may find an example of that trend “near Section 244 at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida.” There,… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ian Miles Cheong, an independent journalist who is active on Twitter and writes for the Post Millennial, has been banned by PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL), allegedly due to his political beliefs. Cheong currently has almost 300,000 Twitter followers and frequently comments on current events in the political… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finland’s card-as-a-service (CaaS) platform Enfuce, which recently finalized a €45 million Series C round, notes that client expectations and competition in the banking sector are “getting tougher all the time.” Denise Johansson, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer & Deputy CEO at Enfuce, writes in a blog… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Modern Treasury, a Fintech powering payments as well as other services, has announced that it is now supporting Goldman Sachs and HSBC clients. According to an update posted today, Modern Treasury said: “We have now added support for HSBC customers in the United Kingdom. We… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Orum’s founder and CEO, Stephany Kirkpatrick, has shared her vision for a “frictionless” financial future built on “seamless” real-time payments. Stephany Kirkpatrick notes that building a firm or business from the ground up is “unlike anything else you’ll do in your life.” As Orum’s founder… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank‘s automatic-payment system is reportedly one of the fastest growing online platforms in Brazil. The C6 Bank began offering financial services in August 2019. The digital banking platform has introduced C6 tag, which has helped with accelerating growth for the firm. In around 2… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zen.com, a licensed electronic money institution regulated by the Central Bank of Lithuania (but based in Poland), has announced fiat to digital asset conversions, along with the transfer of fiat to any digital wallet accepting BTC, ETH, or USDT (ERC-20). Zen states there are more… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, a company focused on payments and card issuance for businesses, notes that as they wrapped up 2021, they decided to take a look back at some of the key milestones.. 2021 was a year of many ‘firsts’ for Nium, the company wrote in a… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Modulr, which supports a new digital payment account for businesses and is specifically building services for companies needing a faster, easier and more reliable way to move money, notes that when they analyzed the results from their Digital Now survey (looking at consumer “attitudes… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ChargeBee notes that for the year it had to follow, 2021 had “a relatively low benchmark to beat in terms of popularity.” ChargeBee, a San Francisco-based financial services firm that’s helping subscription-based businesses stay “agile and adapt their revenue operations workflows to… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder & CEO at Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed Fintech firm that creates software to enable free and instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments, and solutions for businesses to handle online and in-store payments, notes that when him and Maijid and started Chipper Cash in 2018,… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 5:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at WorldRemit, a UK-based digital cross-border payments firm, has shared ways to send money to people who don’t have a bank account. WorldRemit writes in a blog post that for many of us, having a bank account is “an everyday thing.” And yet,… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ruben Salazar Genovez, Global Head of Visa Direct, notes that when he was growing up in El Salvador during the 1980s, people living in “extreme” poverty were defined as those “who spend their daily purchasing power on food and still go to sleep hungry.” Now,… Read More