Tagged: payments

June 17, 2019 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Paysend, an FCA regulated payments platform, has officially launched its anticipated stablecoin. The Pays XDR stablecoin is backed by a basket of five fiat currencies including the US Dollar, Euro, Yen, Chinese Yuan and Pound Sterling. The stablecoin is using the Stellar blockchain and is… Read More

June 16, 2019 @ 10:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a week after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, UK fintech Paysend is now nearing £4.4 million in funding from more than 530 investors. The funding round originally sought to raise £4.2 million, which was secured in three days. Founded… Read More

June 16, 2019 @ 10:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payment process platform Square announced last week it has formed a new partnership with the Ogden Raptors, which is a professional minor league baseball team and affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, to provide what it claims to be a faster and more convenient payment… Read More

June 16, 2019 @ 2:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Jack Dorsey, self-taught programmer and co-founder of Twitter and Square gave two interviews this week in which he talked up Square’s recent efforts to coalesce an in-house team of developers that will contribute to coding Bitcoin and possibly other cryptocurrencies. Square began by providing credit… Read More

June 13, 2019 @ 7:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Billtrust, a fintech firm focused on B2B payment cycle management, announced on Wednesday that B2B payments processor and commercial card issuer, Comdata, has joined Business Payments Network (BPN), enabling their 30,000 buyer customers to send payments to suppliers on BPN. Billtrust reported that through the… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 10:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

MoneyNetint a Ripple partner and borderless commerce company, announced on Wednesday it has formed a partnership with global payments company that is delivering acquiring solutions built by merchants for merchants, PXP Financial, to provide cross-border payment processing in the U.S. and EU. MoneyNetint currently offers… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 7:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the acquisition by PayPal of competitor iZettle. In April, the CMA provisionally found the deal should be cleared. After an initial investigation (Phase 1), CMA raised concerns regarding competition reduction if the acquisition went through. The… Read More

June 10, 2019 @ 7:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Paysend has quickly topped its £4.2 million target for a crowdfunding round on Seedrs. Launched on June 6, Paysend benefited from a private offering for pre-registered customers. To date, 217 investors have participated in the round which remains open on Seedrs. The round was… Read More

June 9, 2019 @ 10:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform Stripe recently announced the launch of Chargeback Protection, which is described as a new service built on Stripe’s machine learning-based fraud tool Radar, that prevents fraud and protects sales against future chargebacks. The platform further explained the new service and what users can… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech startup Paysend has added six new countries to the list of jurisdictions where its network is available. Paysend is now available in more than 70 different countries. The news comes alongside a Series B crowdfunding round hosted on the Seedrs platform. Paysend is seeking… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced at Money2020 Europe in Amsterdam, TransferMate is now offering an API, allowing software partners and business customers access to its globally regulated payments technology through direct integration. TransferMate says it can now enable same day payments across 162 countries and 134 currencies. The TransferMate… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments and loyalty Fintech Yoyo has announced that David Yates, former president of New Payment Platforms at Mastercard and now a senior advisor to Mastercard, has taken on the role of chairman of the company. Yoyo combines payment, loyalty and marketing to increase customer lifetime… Read More

June 2, 2019 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Frente Corretora de Câmbio, a Brazilian money transfer and remittance platform, wants to become the “Transferwise of Brazi” by leveraging Ripple to provide low-cost transfers. According to a report in Exame, Frente is the 15th largest currency brokerage in the country. Frente wants to be in… Read More

May 29, 2019 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

TransferMate, a cross-border B2B payments providers, has secured its first regulatory approval in Asia with a payments license in Singapore. TransferMate claims to hold one of the largest portfolios of payments licenses in the world. This includes all 50 US states plus territories, to support… Read More

May 21, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Alipay announced on Tuesday that fintech company ininal has become its first partner in Turkey. According to Alipay, ininal is a new-general payment platform and a subsidiary of Multinet Up. The partnership will allow Alipay to be available for Chinese mainland visitor sat bricks-and-mortar stores… Read More

May 14, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Paysend Group, an FCA licensed e-Money institution, is planning to issue a stablecoin in June. Paysend is using Stellar to provide the crypto that will allow its users to send instant global payments without the traditional cross-border fees. Paysend notes that Stellar was designed expressly… Read More

May 6, 2019 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Thunes (previously DBA as TransferTo), a cross-border payments Fintech, has completed a $10 million Series A financing led by GGV Capital.  Thunes is a Licensed Payments Service Provider in the UK. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes connects mobile wallet operators, corporates, merchants, money transfer operators, payment… Read More

May 3, 2019 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, announced earlier this week it was launching its services in Sri Lanka. Those who are interested in money transfers to Sri Lanka you can send funds from Europe, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, Mexico and other countries available on… Read More

April 30, 2019 @ 3:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global payment technology provider Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP; LSE: WPY) announced on Tuesday the launch of FraudSight, which is a new solution designed to prevent fraud and optimize approval rates potentially boosting revenue across all channels. According to Worldpay, FraudSight makes transaction validity decisions for merchants of… Read More

April 15, 2019 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Corporate Traveller, a UK-based specialist provider of business travel management services to SME companies, announced on Monday it has teamed up with global blockchain payment provider BitPay to allow cryptocurrency payments on its platform. Corporate Traveller reported that it may now accept bitcoin and bitcoin… Read More