EBA Clearing and Answer Pay Tackle the Bill Payment Crisis in Europe with SEPA Request to Pay
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Answer Pay, a payment as a service provider, is connecting to EBA CLEARING’s R2P messaging system to offer SEPA Request to Pay bill payment services across Europe. Answer Pay is setting up this connection with the leading pan-European payment infrastructure provider, EBA CLEARING so that European banks too can leverage pre-built solutions and quickly stand up their Request to Pay services.
PayU Strengthens Latin America Foothold with Fintech Acquisition and Investment in Colombia
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Today, PayU, the leading fintech and online payments provider across high-growth emerging markets, announces that it has strengthened its presence in Latin America with a strategic acquisition of Ding, a Colombian fintech specialising in online payments.
AppTech Payments Appoints Julia Yu as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and Accounting
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
AppTech Payments Corp. a Fintech company powering commerce experiences, today announced the appointment of Julia Yu as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and Accounting. As the Company begins to expand payments globally, Julia will oversee AppTech’s accounting, finance, and reporting functions. In this new position, Julia will play an integral role in the Company’s financial planning and strategy activities.
Elavon Names New Chief Product Officer
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
Elavon, a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank and one the largest payments processors globally, today appointed Pari Sawant as Chief Product Officer. As Chief Product Officer, Elavon, Sawant will oversee the organization’s global product management efforts and a worldwide team. Sawant joins Elavon with more than 20 years of experience as an executive and senior leader in consumer, SMB and enterprise software. This work encompassed global... more
AstroPay Launches New Feature – Transfer – to Make Digital Money Transfer Even Easier
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
AstroPay, the global leader in online payment solutions, has launched a new in-app feature, Transfer, which enables users to transfer money to even those contacts who don’t have an existing AstroPay account as long as they are in the same country. Available in over 150 countries, this new functionality makes transferring money between digital wallets even easier and is commission free.
Paysend Opens Its Americas Headquarters in Miami
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Paysend, the UK-based fintech with over 6.5 million customers, today announced that it has opened its Americas headquarters in Miami. The move embraces Miami’s reputation as America’s new FinTech capital, with a growing community of venture capital and fintech startup firms flocking to the area to take advantage of proximity to LATAM markets as well as an influx of top entrepreneurial and technology talent.
Moneyhub Teams Up With Wyzr to Automate Financial Planning
Moneyhub, the market-leading Open Data and payments platform, is partnering with financial technology platform
Monneo Launches Crypto Payments Processing for Merchants
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
End-to-end payment ecosystem provider, Monneo, has simplified the process of making and receiving online cryptocurrency payments. Thanks to its recently launched service, Monneo is enabling online merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments natively through their websites. The new solution converts the cryptocurrency payment into its equivalent fiat currency value and then Monneo settles it to the IBAN of the merchant, also provided by Monneo in... more
Nets, Part of Nexi Group, Introduces Softpay
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Nets, part of Nexi Group, has launched Softpay – a new, innvative softPOS solution that enables merchants to accept contactless payments via Android smartphones and tablets The largest retailer in Denmark, Salling Group, is the first merchant onboard, and the solution will be introduced progressively in other European countries, firstly across the Nordics.
Paycast appoints Claire Van der Zant as Managing Director
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Paycast, the marketplace payment engine and second venture of UK based fintech group SPG, has recently announced the appointment of Claire Van der Zant as Managing Director.
AppTech Payments Announces its Intent to Acquire Hothand
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
AppTech Payments Corp. a Fintech company powering commerce experiences, is excited to announce its definitive agreement to purchase Hothand Inc. (“Hothand”), a patent holding company which owns the intellectual property rights to a wide array of mobile credit/debit transaction and mobile search, location, offer, and payment fields.
MYPINPAD and SmartPesa Merge to Become the Global Leader in Mobile payments Acceptance
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
MYPINPAD, a global leader in mobile-based payments acceptance and digital authentication solutions, and SmartPesa, a leading provider of payments and agency banking solutions, have agreed to merge. The combined entity will operate under the MYPINPAD brand.
How 400+ Leading Tech Companies Empower 100 Million People to Take Climate Action During Earth Day
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
This Earth Day, Computop and more than 400 other tech companies are launching a joint campaign: Time for Climate Action. Participating companies are taking climate action upon themselves and encouraging their customers and partners to follow their lead. The aim is to engage with more than 100 million people and trigger millions of meaningful and measurable actions for the planet.
Seamless Middle East Will Be Opening Their Doors to Heavy-weight Individuals in the Fintech, Banking, Payments, Ecommerce, and Retail Industries at Dubai World Trade Centre.
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Digital Identity, E-Commerce, Payments, Banking, Retail Banking
Seamless Middle East will bring together global industry leaders in the fintech, payments, identity, e-commerce, and retail industries to discuss and debate on the future these industries will have to offer.
Sunday Raises $24 Million Seed Round to Build a Fast Restaurant Checkout Flow
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started just a few months ago but that’s because Sunday wants to move quickly.
