Tagged: payments

March 8, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pismo, which claims to be one of the world’s fastest-growing banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firms, has announced a new capability of its core banking and payments platform: digital lending. Digital lending is “part of Pismo’s cloud-native and API-based platform.” It brings agility and flexibility “to accelerate… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Onbe, a corporate disbursements platform, published its 2023 Future of Payments Survey, finding that digital payments continue “to drive US consumer preferences in today’s connected economy.” 70% of respondents prefer “to receive payments digitally and 73% prefer to shop and pay with digital methods, including… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments and financial platform Airwallex has secured a payment business license in China, following the successful acquisition of “a 100% stake in Guangzhou Shang Wu Tong Network Technology Co., Ltd., an information and online payment services company. Shang Wu Tong Network Technology has a… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FOODICS, the cloud-based restaurant management technology and payments platform in the MENA region, announces a strategic partnership with the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider, Unifonic. Since it was founded in 2006, Unifonic has consistently “grown its product line and its markets to provide… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, introduced a new fraud mitigation solution designed to simplify how large enterprises manage omnichannel risk. Accessible through the Carat global commerce platform, the modular solution empowers merchants with controls that can… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Six months after its pre-seed, B2B payments platform Barte has raised a $3m seed round, bringing total funding to date to over $4 million. The Brazilian fintech will use the money raised from the investment round “to establish itself as the premium B2B payments platform… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA), a technology company in the global payments industry, has collaborated with Google in order “to launch Google Pay in Kuwait, strengthening digital payment capabilities in the country.” Cardholders can tap to pay “with their Android phones or supported Wear OS devices in… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Modern Treasury, the operating system for the new era of payments, and Silicon Valley Bank, announced the availability of a new global payment solution, which will “allow mutual clients to send cross-border payments more efficiently, predictably, and at a lower cost by leveraging local payment… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brightwell, a payments technology company building financial products to send money securely anywhere in the world, announced its partnership with Fintech solution and payments program manager Dash Solutions, formerly known as Prepaid Technologies. As a pioneer of the prepaid industry, Dash Solutions joins other Fintechs… Read More

March 4, 2023 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Xapo Bank, a Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank, has partnered with Lightspark and integrated with the Lightning Network “to enable lightning-fast Bitcoin payments for its customers.” Xapo Bank members “can now instantly pay for small purchases of up to $100 USD at any vendor… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kriya Payments is now available in 42 countries. This means buyers worldwide can “take advantage of flexible payment terms, feeling more secure about their cash flow.” General Manager, Martina Trifonova, has commented on the thinking behind the decision was, what the team learned in the… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tazapay, a Singapore-based cross-border payments provider, has partnered with leading global real-time payments gateway Volt “to add open banking to its growing stack of payment offerings, as it accelerates its international growth plans across the UK and Europe. The partnership will enable Tazapay’s customers “to… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aventus, a Web3 solutions provider for enterprises, has partnered with Nexos Technologies, a digital payments and banking platform providing open banking and payment solutions, in order “to bring blockchain-enabled solutions to the digital banking and payments sector.” Nexos Technologies has deep domain expertise “in traditional… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wise (LSE:WISE), the global technology company building the best way to move and manage money is rolling out a new look and feel. This comes as the company announced that it has “reached 16 million customers served worldwide, and revealed plans for further global expansion.”… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As consumers move more regularly between online and in-the-store, small businesses need the latest tools “to provide the same type of shopping experiences seen at big brand companies.” To make payments simple and provide small businesses with an easy-to-use portal to manage their website, inventory… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 8:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tietoevry has completed a major systems’ upgrade for Chip Card, member of Payten, one of the leading payments processors in the Republic of Serbia. With electronic payments becoming more popular in Serbia and adjacent markets, Chip Card worked with Tietoevry “to implement an upgraded Card… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Thunes, a payments and transfers Fintech, has announced a new head of Latin America. Victor Lucena will now lead the Fintech in its efforts to expand its services. As Head of LATAM, Lucena will manage all aspects of Thunes Latin American operations. He will be… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Israel has issued a framework providing international payment service providers access to regulated payment systems in Israel. Effective immediately, this framework “enables such entities to provide services to the public in Israel, relying on a license issued in a foreign country.” The… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashfree Payments, India’s payments and API banking company, announced its strategic acquisition of Zecpe, a one-click checkout company. Zecpe enables e-commerce businesses “to improve checkout conversion by making the process quick and seamless for customers.” Zecpe will now “operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cashfree… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally Commerce, the headless, one-click checkout solution for digital merchants, announces a partnership with Swell in order “to give merchants better control over their business and deliver a seamless checkout experience for customers.” Swell’s infrastructure “coupled with Rally’s checkout empowers small merchants to scale their… Read More