Tagged: payments

July 28, 2024 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global enabler of mission-critical, real-time payments solutions, and Worldpay, a global provider of payment processing solutions, today announced an extension of their longstanding partnership. The agreement will see ACI continue to “provide critical infrastructure to Worldpay to support merchants worldwide.” Through… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alchemy Pay, a fiat-crypto payment gateway, has announced a partnership with Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a payments platform. With this partnership, Alchemy Pay integrates Paysafe’s Skrill, NETELLER, and multiple local payment methods into its Fiat On-ramp offering, “enhancing convenience and accessibility for global users, particularly across… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PXP Financial, a global payment services provider, is pleased to announce the launch of its Partner Portal. This advanced platform is engineered “to transform the merchant application journey, elevating the partnership experience with PXP.” Designed to enhance efficiency and accuracy, the Partner Portal “empowers partners… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

My EU Pay, the financial institution that offers frictionless payments and FX to businesses, has partnered with ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, to provide a range of banking services for their clients. My EU Pay will use ClearBank’s… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac is launching Dynamic Virtual Cards for institutional, corporate and government customers, enabling fast and secure ‘tap and go’ payments, giving them greater control. Westpac’s Dynamic Virtual Card can be “used online as well as in-store via digital wallet tap and go transactions.” Jeff Byrne,… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, the Australia-founded financial platform for modern businesses, has reportedly become the first major payments company to be granted an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) to offer businesses access to retail investment products. This is an additional… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The co-founder of a cloud platform for global card processing insists that recent payment systems outages are the price the world pays for widely used yet outdated infrastructure. Robert Kraal is the CBDO of Silverflow, which offers a cloud-native solution with a single API for… Read More

July 20, 2024 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cash App announces its integration with Google Play, giving consumers an alternative payment option when checking out on their Android smartphones or tablets. This partnership represents an opportunity to engage with a broad range of consumers, particularly in the gaming space. Pete Albers, Director of… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 12:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, it was reported that CHAPS, or the Clearing House Automated Payment System, the system that enables real-time gross settlement payments in the United Kingdom, had gone offline, impacting some “high-value” payments and transfers. The Bank of Engaland did not reveal the cause of the outage,… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jared DeMatteis, Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, DailyPay has issued a statemenet regarding the CFPB Proposed Interpretive Rule. Jared DeMatteis, Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, DailyPay said: “We strongly disagree with the CFPB’s proposed interpretive rule. Characterizing employer-integrated Earned Wage Access products as loans or… Read More

July 18, 2024 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England is reporting issues with CHAPS or Clearing House Automated Payment System, the platform that enables real-time gross settlement payments in the United Kingdom. The Bank stated that the issues impacted some “high-value and time-sensitive payments, including some house purchases.” The Bank… Read More

July 18, 2024 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

July 20, 2024, will mark exactly one year since the Federal Reserve announced the launch of the notable FedNow Service, which has allowed customers at participating financial institutions to make payments that can be sent and received at any time, immediately available to use. The… Read More

July 17, 2024 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Paris-based Mangopay has announced a global partnership with ManoMano. Mangopay is a European Fintech success story that enables digital payments and specializes in supporting marketplaces. ManoMano is another French Fintech that targets the DIY, home improvement, and gardening sectors. ManoMano currently operates in six markets, including France, Belgium, Spain,… Read More

July 15, 2024 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent election of Labour in the UK is likely to result in “major changes” to fintech and payments markets, according to an analysis shared by Juniper Research. Juniper Research notes in a blog post that as industry watchers, they wanted to “examine the new… Read More

July 14, 2024 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has announced the launch of its white-label payment orchestration solution, which is set to propel payment acquirers, gateways, platforms and other ecosystem players with agile and customizable modular tech to stand out in a fiercely competitive market. As an independently-owned, vendor-agnostic… Read More

July 14, 2024 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-border payments are becoming increasingly important to international economies. Around 63% of global consumers use international real-time payments (RTPs) services to send money to family and friends and 51% use them only to pay for goods and services, according to the 2024 Financial Services Consumer… Read More

July 12, 2024 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) customers across Brazil now have access to a new alternative for fuel payment transactions. Users of the Shell Box app, Shell’s platform for experiences, “can now enjoy the convenience of paying for their fuel using NuPay, an online payment method for Nubank… Read More

July 10, 2024 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research has revealed 66 percent of travel companies are seeing their profit margins impacted by outdated or complicated payment systems, with nine in 10 expected to prioritize modernising their financial operations this year. In a report released by global payments and financial platform, Airwallex, and… Read More

July 10, 2024 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fave Singapore, operating under the registered entity name Beeconomic Singapore Pte. Ltd. and part of the Pine Labs group today announced that it has received an in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a Major Payment Institution (MPI) Licence to offer account… Read More

July 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alchemy Pay, the fiat-payment gateway, now supports cash payments on its On-ramp service for Taiwan users that enhances the convenience of purchasing crypto-assets. Users can now place the order and pay with cash in Taiwan’s local fiat currency, TWD, at popular offline convenience stores “such… Read More