Following years of pandemic restrictions that all card companies had to contend with, Visa Inc.’s top executives late Thursday highlighted stable transaction and processing volumes and growing cross-border travel as the United States and other global regions continued to recover. The event also featured an appearance by Visa president Ryan …
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Marqeta’s & Deloitte’s Payments Plan Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/23/23
Payments fintech Marqeta Inc. said it has entered a strategic alliance with consulting firm Deloitte to help banks, fintechs, and payments providers quicken the pace of payments modernization. Grazzy, an app provider for same-day earnings and other employee payments, announced a $4.25-million seed funding round from Next Coast Ventures and Tuesday Capital. …
Read More »Eye On BNPL: Splitit Teams With AliPay for Pay on Delivery; Klarna Partners With Ingenico
Splitit Payments Ltd., a white-label buy now, pay later provider, has partnered with AliPay to offer Splitit’s Pay After Delivery option to consumers shopping on the AliExpress e-commerce marketplace. Pay After Delivery allows consumers to make a purchase using a credit card, then pay for it after delivery. The payment …
Read More »COMMENTARY: How Fintech Is Shaping—And Rescuing—Accounts Payable
You have to spend money to make money. That’s an old adage, and it’s true. But actually making the payments takes up a lot of people’s time. It’s critical to your business operations, but it’s not why you’re in business. That means there are opportunity costs. You have to spend …
Read More »How Netevia Seeks to Be ‘a Square for ISOs’
Payments platforms have worked for years to find the key to winning and keeping merchants while also holding on to independent sales organizations, the agents that are key to signing up merchants. Now Netevia Group LLC thinks it’s found that key in banking. “It’s a pretty simple strategy,” says Vlad …
Read More »Fintech NorthOne Offers a Real-Time Payments Capability Via The Clearing House
Five years on, the Real Time Payments network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC continues to gain new members outside of legacy banking. The latest is NorthOne, a fintech that offers financial management services for small businesses, startups, and freelancers. New York City-based NorthOne, which was founded in 2016, …
Read More »Fleetcor Closes on Global Reach Acquisition And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/23
Payments platform Fleetcor Technologies Inc. has closed on its acquisition of Global Reach Group, a United Kingdom-based provider of cross-border payments. Terms of the deal, which was announced in June, were not released. Ionia, a provider of embedded-payments technology, has joined Visa Inc.’s Fast Track Program, a service enabling fintechs to tap …
Read More »The Rise of Embedded Payments
With consumers expecting 21st-century digital experiences, the one-click capabilities of embedded payment are looking increasingly attractive to merchants and processors. When it comes time to pay, Uber customers don’t think twice. They open the Uber app, enter a tip for the driver, and click the pay button. It’s a seamless, …
Read More »Looking to Sharpen Its Edge in Merchant Services, NMI Acquires Agreement Express’s Payments Assets
Payment platform provider NMI has acquired Agreement Express Inc.’s merchant onboarding, underwriting, and monitoring technologies. The acquisition, which is for the payments portion of Agreement Express’s total business, is aimed at allowing NMI to provide integrated software vendors, independent sales organizations, and fintechs with tools that can speed up merchant …
Read More »Curve Lines up $1 Billion for Flex And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/6/22
Curve OS Ltd. said it secured a deal with Credit Suisse to fund its first $1 billion in installment loans, via its Curve Flex product, in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. London-based Curve announced Curve Flex in 2021. A survey from Bango PLC of 2,500 U.S. subscription users found that 65% said …
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