The SPAC trend has come to the blockchain industry. Circle Internet Financial Inc. announced early Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by Concord Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in a deal that will take Circle public and values the 8-year-old company at $4.5 billion. That valuation would …

As the gig economy grows, startups are emerging to meet an expanding market for payment. An especially ambitious example is Willa Inc., which on Wednesday announced an $18-million Series A funding round led by FinTech Collective and including sums from existing investors EQT Ventures and Entrée Capital. The Ventura, Calif.-based …

Atlanta-based EVO Payments Inc. is working with global ATM technology provider KAL to allow banks and independent ATM deployers to quickly set up ATMs anywhere in Europe. The new service combines Germany-based KAL’s ATM software with EVO’s payments network, the parties said Tuesday. “We have created a highly efficient method …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s decision to bring its Zettle point-of-sale technology to the U.S. market may not surprise observers, but the move presents some formidable challenges, chiefly in the form of the existing competition, some observers say. At the same time, they add, Zettle brings a potent brand that fills a …

Health-care technology provider R1 RCM Inc. has closed on its acquisition of VisitPay LLC, a platform specializing in medical payments. R1 announced in early May it would acquire VisitPay for approximately $300 million in cash.Personal-finance app provider Charlie Finance Co. announced new services, including DirectPay, which lets users link credit cards to the app …

Financial-technology service providers are out to disrupt business-to-business payments. But rather than displacing banks, fintechs are looking to make them their partners. From virtual cards to digital invoices with embedded payment links, financial-services technology providers are aggressively targeting business-to-business payments. Fintechs are pushing into the B2B space—which has long been …

Signs of the Covid-19 pandemic fading away include things like open restaurants, fully packed stadiums, and a return to travel. But for the financial-services industry, the real end of the pandemic may be signaled when regulators knock at the door. During the pandemic, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau extended certain …

If there’s a software need for your business—accounting, payroll management, lease portfolio management, and the like— then it’s likely your business is working with several different vendors at any given point during the working day. All the vendors you are working with won’t always be obvious, particularly if you’re working …

Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. continued its push Tuesday into making processing online gambling transactions a larger part of its business by expanding a partnership with FOX Bet, a U.S. online and mobile sports-betting platform operated by Flutter Entertainment plc.  Under the terms of the deal, which follows a deal earlier this …

As the popularity of using quick-response codes for payment at the point-of-sale grows, the trend toward offering the technology to software developers and merchants has gained momentum and now includes small and mid-sized processors. Omnichannel payment gateway Cardknox Development Inc. on Monday became the latest processor to enter the fray, …