Wirecard and UZE Mobility partner to launch innovative services in e-mobility
Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology and UZE Mobility, open innovation platform for e-mobility services, have entered into a strategic partnership.
Bankingblocks Teams up with WL Payments
Bankingblocks, an Amsterdam-based wholesale banking provider for fintech and payment companies, teams up with WL Payments to provide a true omni-channel, universal payment gateway.
Ingenico Enterprise Retail accelerates smart city and transport revolution with OP2GO expansion
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Ingenico Enterprise Retail, part of Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payments, today announces it will launch OP2GO, its Open Payment solution, in North America in 2020. This puts Ingenico at the forefront of the smart city and transport revolution, having introduced the solution across Rio de Janeiro, Taiwan, Madrid and Rome in 2019.
WorldPay and Visa Back African Payments Firm Flutterwave
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Flutterwave, a payments startup operating in Africa, is looking to expand across the continent after closing a $35 million funding round and securing partnerships with Visa and WorldPay. With bases in Lagos and San Francisco, Flutterwave is one of several African fintech firms looking to cash in on the continent's drive to electronic payments. The company helps merchants accept payments both online and at the point-of-sale through a host of... more
Computop Reveals New Payment Card Terminal at Euroshop Trade Fair
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Computop, a leading global payment processor, today announced that it will be exhibiting at Euroshop, the retail trade fair in Dusseldorf, Germany (February 16-20). The company will be showcasing its new, Android-based card terminal, Computop Next A920, providing demonstrations for visitors to the event.
JCB expands its merchant network with Nets Group in Finland
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
JCB International, Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and Nordic-based payment service provider Nets Group, today announce the wider enablement of JCB payment acceptance by Nets merchants in Finland. This latest strategic expansion initially enables over 18,000 businesses across Finland to accept JCB payments through the Nets Merchant Services platform. This will provide JCB’s growing Russian and Japanese... more
Wirecard and EasyTransfer make payment easy for international Chinese students
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and EasyTransfer are collaborating to enable seamless mobile payments for digital-native Chinese students. Together the two companies are launching a new mobile payment and loyalty app designed for Chinese students studying outside of China. Approximately $3.8 billion in tuition payments were transferred via EasyTransfer in the first year alone.
TemTum Launches World’s Fastest Payment Mobile Wallet on iOS and Android
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain, Payments, E-Wallets, Cryptocurrencies, FinTech StartUps
TemTum (temtum.com), the quantum-secure, ultra-
Visa Is Buying Fintech Startup Plaid For $5.3 Billion
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Visa announced it will acquire Plaid—a startup that connects payment apps like Venmo and Square Cash to users' bank accounts to transfer funds—for $5.3 billion. That marks a doubling of Plaid’s value in a year. The eight-year-old San Francisco company last raised funding a year ago at a $2.65 billion valuation. In 2019, Plaid doubled its number of customers to reach 2,600, and it expanded beyond the U.S. to the U.K., Spain, France and Ireland.
Yooz Named Finalist in 2019-20 Cloud Awards
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Cloud, Accounting
Yooz, the international provider of intelligent P2P software, has been shortlisted in the category Best Cloud Automation Solution in The Cloud Awards, the international Cloud Computing Awards program. Since 2011, The Cloud Awards program has sought to champion excellence and innovation in cloud computing. Entries are accepted throughout the globe and across multiple industry sectors.
Marqeta certify with Mastercard to provide processing services that enable European FinTechs to get to market faster and easier
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Marqeta, the leading global modern payments platform, is now a European certified processor with Mastercard. This new collaboration is designed to help digital banks and FinTechs go to market and scale faster. Twisto, an innovative daily payments app linked to a card, will be the first European customer to deploy Marqeta’s card processing capabilities with Mastercard.
Kickstart the decade with Asia’s biggest disruptors at Money20/20 in Singapore
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Banking, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Money20/20. No, not the year 2020 but perfect, 20/20 vision. As in, see-into-the-future-of-money type vision. Money20/20 brings that future into crystal clear focus, so those in the industry can plan, create, collaborate – and take their businesses forward. With that goal in mind, the region’s biggest change-makers are joining the line-up in Singapore, with keynotes including:
Uphold Announces Bank Connectivity in the U.K. with the Support of the Pound Sterling
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Cryptocurrencies
Leading digital money platform Uphold today announces bank connectivity for its users in the United Kingdom with the introduction of support for the Pound Sterling (GBP).
NatWest announces new partnership to boost SME lending
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
NatWest has today launched a new partnership with Soldo, a pre-paid company card provider for small businesses, which will allow two of the bank’s ventures, Esme Loans and Rapid Cash, to be offered directly to Soldo’s customers, as the bank aims to increase lending to UK SMEs throughout 2020.
Vend and Klarna put big business software in the hands of boutique retailers across the UK & US
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Vend, the preferred retail point-of-sale software of the British Independent Retail Association, has today announced a partnership with global payments provider Klarna. The collaboration gives customers of boutique retailers more flexible payment options, levelling the playing field for small business to compete with enterprise retail and offer Klarna’s smooth and easy payments in-store across the United Kingdom. The role out will later follow... more
