Mergers & Acquisitions

January, 2022

• 27 January

  Mastercard: All in on Open Banking, But Not on Amazon’s Fee Dispute With Visa

  

  Top executives at Mastercard Inc. made it plain early Thursday the card network is determined to develop its account-to-account payment capabilities, while maintaining its distance from the dispute between its rival Visa Inc. and the e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. over transaction pricing. “That’s fundamentally a question for Visa and Amazon,” …
• 27 January

  Strawhecker Ranks Gateways and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/27/22

  

  Consulting firm The Strawhecker Group announced its list of best-performing payment gateways in a range of categories. CSG Forte and FIS (Express) were co-winners in the best-performing gateway category, with JPMorgan Chase (Orbital) as runner-up. Elavon (Fusebox) won for fastest transactions.With the majority of buy now, pay later accounts going unreported to …
• 20 January

  Mastercard Track Instant Pay Unveiled and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/20/22

  

  Mastercard Inc. launched Mastercard Track Instant Pay, a platform enabling instant payment of supplier invoices via virtual card transactions supported by machine learning. The service is available in the United States now, with plans to expand globally.Nuvei Corp. has been approved by the New York State Gaming Commission to process payments for …
• 19 January

  Celero’s Omega Acquisition, Its Second in a Month, Brings Strength in Software

  

  Celero Commerce made its second acquisition in a month with its deal to acquire Omega Technology, a Fort Thomas, Ky.-based payments provider. Nashville, Tenn.-based Celero says the combined company will process payments for more than 50,000 merchants at approximately $20 billion in annual card volume. Celero acquired Everest Payment Solutions in …
• 19 January

  Boku To Sell its Identity Unit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/19/22

  

  Mobile-payments provider Boku Inc. is selling its Boku Identity Inc. unit to cloud-communication platform Twilio Inc. for $26.1 million upfront and another $6.2 million payable later to cover indemnities.Payments provider Lightspeed Commerce said its NuOrder technology will support orders and payments for women’s fashion platform Intermix, which operates 31 boutiques and an e-commerce site.Text …
• 18 January

  Going Beyond the Gateway, NMI Acquires A Payment-Specific Services Firm in IRIS CRM

  

  As part of its strategy to expand its offering of multichannel payment technology, payment-platform provider NMI announced Tuesday the acquisition of IRIS CRM, a merchant-services customer relationship management and merchant-management platform that services clients in the payments industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  The addition of IRIS CRM …
• 6 January

  PayFacto Strengthens Its Hand in Restaurant POS With an Acquisition of Online Ordering App iShop

  

  PayFacto Inc., a payment solutions provider specializing in the hospitality industry, announced Thursday the acquisition of iShop, a technology provider for restaurants. The deal, for which terms were not disclosed, gives Montreal-based PayFacto an in-house online-ordering solution, something the company found was missing in its technology stack. As a result, …
• 6 January

  VeriCheck Acquires Applied Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/22

  

  Fintech VeriCheck Inc. announced it has acquired Applied Payments LLC, which does business as ACHWorks, a payment-services provider specializing in automated clearing house transactions. Terms were not announced.Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd. said in-store shopping from its customers soared 384% year-over-year for the Oct. 1 to Dec. 27 period. Afterpay, available in …
• 4 January

  How Payix Is Expected To Raise Repay’s Game in the Hot Buy Now, Pay Later Arena

  

  The acquisition of independent sales organization Payix is expected to bolster payments provider Repay Holdings Corp.’s ability to acquire new merchants, including in the fast-growing and wildly popular buy now, pay later space. Repay on Monday announced its $115-million deal for Payix, which is a registered independent sales organization of Wells …
• 4 January

  67% Willing To Pay with Crypto and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/4/22

  

  A Cantaloupe Inc. study found that 67% of consumers who own cryptocurrency are willing to use it for purchases if it were linked to a mobile wallet. The study had responses from more than 2,000 U.S. adults.Card maker SmartMetric Inc. said it created a credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor. The card contains …