Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. has had an eventful six months, and on Tuesday the big processor indicated it’s going to be busy cultivating its stakes in U.S. online gambling and other specialized markets. “Our goal is to be the leading specialized payments platform,” declared chief executive Philip McHugh during a …
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Repay Holdings Corp. said it is acquiring BillingTree, which provides payment services to the healthcare, credit union, accounts receivable management, and energy industries, for $503 million. BillingTree was founded in 2003. Repay also released its first quarter results with $47.5 million in revenue, a 20.3% increase from $39.5 million in the 2020 first …
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Affirm Holdings Inc. on Monday described an arc that traced deals to process for tens of thousands of Shopify Inc. merchants on the upside and returns for $2,500 Peloton Inc. treadmills on the downside. In a conference call with stock analysts to discuss its fiscal third-quarter results, the San Francisco-based …
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Prices for cloned credit cards and the accompanying account data for sale on the dark Web are on the rise, while data from hacked cryptocurrency accounts command some of the highest prices, according to a report from PrivacyAffairs.com, an online publication from Romania-based Zisk Web Ltd. From October 2020 through February …
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Payments provider Nuvei Corp. reported first-quarter volume of $20.6 billion, up 132% year-over-year, with e-commerce accounting for 87% of that total. Revenue grew 80% to $149.9 million. Nuvei was known as Pivotal Payments until rebranding in 2018.Kount, an authentication and fraud prevention provider, announced Kount Dispute and Chargeback Management Solution, a service that integrates …
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Payments provider Nuvei Corp. announced an agreement to acquire SimplexCC Ltd., whose technology enables market participants to buy or sell cryptocurrencies. The $250-million deal is expected to close in the second half of the year and comes on the heels of Nuvei’s agreement to acquire sports-betting technology specialist Mazooma Technical Services Inc. for $56 …
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Flywire Corp. said users of its education payment service can now use Discover and Diners Club International cards to pay tuition and fees at educational institutions served by Flywire.The chief executives of 21 banks plus Fiserv Inc. and Jack Henry & Associates signed a letter committing their organizations to real-time bill …
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Skeptics abound when it comes to digital currencies, but PayPal Holdings Inc. is out to prove them wrong. Chief executive Dan Schulman, an early enthusiast, made it plain Wednesday he sees the crypto trend not only as the company’s big opportunity, but also as a potential liability if PayPal fumbles …
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Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …
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More evidence emerged that consumers are still increasing their use of contactless payments, over a year since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contactless transaction counts among the more than 75,000 small businesses in the latest CardFlight Small Business Report grew 426.7% in the week ending May 2 compared to …
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