Buoyed by an explosion of e-commerce activity following the onset of Covid-19, PayPal Holdings Inc. last year enjoyed what turned out to be a record year for growth. Now, it looks to roll out a flurry of new services. “We released more products and services in 2020 than in any …
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Payoneer Agrees to a SPAC Merger That Will Take the Company Public
Global e-commerce payments provider Payoneer Inc. announced Wednesday morning it will go public via a merger with a blank-check company, confirming reports about a deal that first emerged last month. In the merger, which values Payoneer at $3.3 billion, the 15-year-old, New York City-based firm becomes the eighth payments-related company …
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Read More »How a Processor Sees Opportunity in Its Participation in the Upcoming Pilot for FedNow
With the Federal Reserve’s announcement last week that more than 110 financial institutions and processors have signed up for a pilot of the FedNow real-time payments service, third-party service providers are working to smooth the way for small banks that might otherwise be left on the sidelines. “We’re filling the niche …
Read More »Merchant Feedback: The Not-So-Secret Key to Success
Payments providers must move beyond merely transactional relationships to build lasting business. The global payments market is becoming an increasingly attractive space for competition. In 2019, global payments revenue was a massive $2 trillion, which is drawing increasing attention from new players that wish to rapidly jump in the payments …
Read More »Decisions, Decisions
Is your bill-pay provider setting you up for success? Use this checklist to decide. According to popular legend, the first online payment was made in 1994, for a Pizza Hut pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Whether that holds true or not, online payment processing has grown by leaps and bounds since …
Read More »Ransomware Makes a Comeback
The attack on TSYS last December was a sobering reminder of the vulnerability of payments companies to this insidious fraud. But there are steps you can take to protect your network. Criminals are businessmen, too, which is why they are always looking for ways to maximize the return on their …
Read More »Walmart Launches a Fintech
Unlike many fintech startups, Walmart’s Inc.’s new financial company is expected to be a formidable player right out of the gate. The retail giant unveiled plans last month to partner with Ribbit Capital to create a fintech that will provide what Walmart describes as “modern, innovative, and affordable financial solutions.” …
Read More »As Visa Stages a Comeback From Covid, It Scopes Out Its Chances in Open Banking
Visa Inc. along with many other payments companies was thrown for a loop by the coronavirus pandemic, but now it’s clawing it’s way back on the strength of debit cards, e-commerce, and a real-time payments service called Visa Direct. “In the United States, we are actually back to our prepandemic …
Read More »In the Wake of the NCR-Cardtronics Deal, Experts Point to Some Intriguing Scenarios
Now that NCR Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Cardtronics plc, speculation is growing about what NCR plans to do with the new assets, specifically the 285,000 ATMs Cardtronics operates and its transaction-processing business. For NCR, the value in the acquisition lies not in Cardtronics’ ATMs themselves, but in …
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