Tagged: payments

April 10, 2019 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

J.P. Morgan announced earlier this week it is advancing its real-time payments offering by launching SEPA Instant in Europe. The banking group reported that with this latest offering it is continuing on its mission to drive efficiency and add critical value to our clients’ business…. Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 6:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital money transfer Fintech Azimo has secured a license from the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank) to operate its services in the Netherlands, according to a release from the firm. Azimo said its headquarters will remain in London and its engineering and operations in… Read More

April 7, 2019 @ 8:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An on-the-ground investigation by London news outlet Financial Times has shown that several payment referral partnerships maintained by German payments giant Wirecard in the Philippines are either insubstantial or dubious. On Friday, it was revealed that a top accounting executive with the firm had departed…. Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

CABIM Ltd, the parent company of Crown Agents Bank has acquired Segovia, a US-based payments firm. In a release, Crown Agents Bank said the purchase will enable it to extend its payment network, including mobile money, and integrate Segovia’s payments infrastructure with Crown Agents Bank’s… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder and former chief executive mobile payment Fintech Jumio with defrauding investors. The former CEO of Jumio, Daniel Mattes, has agreed to pay more than $17 million to settle the charges. Mattes is also a “business… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 2:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global payment technology provider Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP; LSE: WPY) announced on Wednesday it is set to expand its services into Australasian later this year, thanks to two major investments. The first step is to open two sales offices in Australia and the second is the expansion of its… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pelican, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, announced on Wednesday the further extension of its API Interoperability solution, with expanded support for the six popular Open Banking API standards, now including the UK’s OBWG, France’s STET… Read More

March 22, 2019 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Marqeta has just raised $250 million in a Series E funding round that reportedly valued the firm at around $2 billion. It was reported that hedge-fund firm Coatue Management LLC led the investment round. Omri Dahan,  Chief Revenue Officer of Marqeta, recently told… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 1:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

JP Morgan’s Global Head of eCommerce Solutions, Ron Karpovich, has told CNBC that there is, “more partnership instead of competition,” in payments and that, “Ultimately behind the scenes, (payments disruptors) are going to have to use a bank to move funds.” He also seemed to dismiss… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 6:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based Fintech InstaReM has announced a partnership with First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions. The new partnership will combine InstaReM’s digital payments and remittance solution with First Data’s debit processing solution. InstaReM said that by leveraging First Data’s… Read More

March 19, 2019 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Western Union (NYSE:WU), an old tech cross-border payment company has teamed up with Thunes (TransferTo Mobile Financial Services Ltd) to enable Western Union customers to send funds directly into mobile wallets around the world. Thunes connects diverse payment systems so unbanked or underbanked users gain access… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 10:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

InstaReM, a payments platform operating in over 50 countries, has closed on a USD $ 41 million Series C funding round led by Vertex Growth Fund, their first investment in Southeast Asia. James Lee, MD of Vertex Growth Fund, will be joining the Board of… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 10:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Singel announced on Monday its Asian cross-border payment alliance, VIA, has expanded its footprint to Japan. According to Singel, NETSTARS, a Tokyo-based mobile payment technology company, will join VIA, adding its 100,000 stores to the network’s current 1.6 million merchant partners. Singel reported that users… Read More

March 6, 2019 @ 7:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Monday it is now enabling fully digital Chinese payments on Tallink Grupp ships. According to Wirecard, Tallink Grupp is a passenger and cargo transportation service provider in the Northern region of the Baltic Sea… Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 12:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain-based payment platform Terra has received an investment from VC Kakao Ventures – an independent subsidiary of South Korea’s internet firm, Kakao. The amount of the investment was not disclosed but was said to fund the expansion and mainstream usage of Terra’s blockchain payment solution… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 7:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Naspers-owned PayU, an India-based online payments service provider, has appointed Anirban Mukherjee as its new Chief Executive Officer of PayU India. Mukherjee will report to PayU Global CEO Laurent Le Moal. As well as leading PayU’s Indian business, Mukherjee joins PayU’s global leadership team with… Read More

February 18, 2019 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Mobile payment Fintech TransferTo has rebranded as two separate company brands. TransferTo has now changed its name to DT One. Simultaneously, the cross-border payments business, which started in 2016, has branched off to operate independently from DT One and has been renamed to Thunes. Thunes will focus… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 8:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, announced earlier this week it now has more than 500,000 customers. The company also introduced money transfer services to more than 30 European countries.   As previously reported, PaySend was founded in 2015 and describes itself as a UK fintech company… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 7:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) announced on Wednesday it is introducing Kroger Pay, which is described as a mobile payment solution that securely combines a customer’s payment and loyalty card information to create a faster checkout experience. The company reported it is also launching a new… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 2:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments platform Lemon Way is reporting solid growth. The France-based Fintech says it has experienced “astounding growth in Europe with major increases to turnover and new payment accounts for 2018.” Founded in 2012, Lemon Way is a payments provider that has targeted the digital industry… Read More