Tagged: commerce

March 16, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bilt Rewards, the payments and commerce platform transforming the $2.1 trillion housing payments market, announced the acquisition of Banyan, the platform for item-level receipt data. This acquisition—Bilt’s first— expands Bilt’s ability to create innovative, frictionless experiences that drive “neighborhood commerce and deliver  value to residents… Read More

November 22, 2023 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Identity fraud rose by more than a fifth this year, “amid warnings that fraudulent activity is set to peak over the Christmas shopping period.” New analysis from Experian reveals “that identity fraud rose by 22% in 2023, when compared to 2022, with the trend expected… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping destination, announced its continued momentum in Canada. Since launching in the market in February 2022 less than 18 months ago, Klarna claims it has achieved “a rapidly expanding network of over 640,000 active consumers; processed over… Read More

July 28, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Croissant, a Fintech platform with a mission to empower intentional commerce, launched today with $24 million in seed funding from a suite of top investors, including Portage and KKR co-founders George Roberts and Henry Kravis. Initial funding was used “to accelerate Croissant’s MVP launch via… Read More

July 25, 2023 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One year after launching its marketplace, Nubank (NYSE:NU), one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, is partnering with the traditional retail chain Casas Bahia in order “to implement a new shopping experience in its app.” Now, Nu customers will “have an even more… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finaro, the global cross-border payment provider and fully licensed bank, has announced its European Cloud Commerce deployment with payments technology company Mastercard, Nordic neobank and POS provider, Northmill, and full commerce enablement technology company, NMI. Following Mastercard’s launch in the U.S. in 2021, this partnership… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will begin piloting biometrics-based payments with select retailers in the U.S. This is the first pilot solution to launch from J.P. Morgan Payments’ new Commerce Solutions suite of products, “dedicated to helping merchants adapt to the rapidly evolving payments landscape.” Its… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally Commerce, the headless, one-click checkout solution for digital merchants, announces a partnership with Swell in order “to give merchants better control over their business and deliver a seamless checkout experience for customers.” Swell’s infrastructure “coupled with Rally’s checkout empowers small merchants to scale their… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instead of dealing with different platforms and currencies, receipts and invoices, and arguing with banks over spend limits, you can consider using services provided via Juni. The company explains that with automatic receipt generation, real-time spend insights and Google Ads invoices auto-pulled into your account,… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FASTAF, which claims to be an ultrafast delivery startup supported by former NBA star Baron Davis, launches one of the “first” cryptocurrency-powered commerce platforms through partnerships with Stripe and Solana. As noted in the update shared with CI, FastAF says it is the “first” and… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WEX (NYSE: WEX), the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, announced the public launch of Flume, an FDIC-insured digital wallet uniquely designed “to bridge the digital divide for millions of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S.” Flume is provided by… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger, the data-driven lending technology provider, has partnered with Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company and developer of core banking engine Vault Core, “to provide a fully integrated technology stack for commercial lenders and banks.” API-driven data exchange between the two companies will… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3’s commerce layer Boson Protocol is partnering with Alterrage, a DAO-led fashion label leveraging blockchain technology, “to create interoperable collections across physical, augmented, and digital spaces.” The partnership will see Alterrage “open a phygital Web3 store where buyers will be able to purchase the unique… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research released by specialized payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE) reveals how retailers “may be missing out by not accepting payments in crypto.” A significant 80% of crypto owners “want to pay for goods with their crypto balances but are held back by a lack of… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rino, the newly-launched startup founded by Trung Thanh Nguyen, has finalized a $3M pre-seed round in order to accelerate the firm’s blueprint for 10-minute instant delivery by “setting up dark stores and building its own logistics units beginning with Ho Chi Minh City.” Trung Thanh… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech SumUp and PrestaShop – the digital commerce platform in Europe and Latin America – have announced a partnership that will aim to give thousands of merchants on the PrestaShop platform access to SumUp’s product suite of business tools (thanks to PrestaShop’s SumUp Payment… Read More

November 3, 2021 @ 9:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shopping and rewards platform ShopBack announced on November 2, 2021 that it has obtained consent from shareholders of hoolah, a Buy Now, Now Later (BNPL) platform, for a 100% acquisition of the firm by ShopBack. hoolah, combined with ShopBack’s position as the publisher and shopping… Read More

October 21, 2021 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial services and digital payments company Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) has introduced subscription-based tools in the United Kingdom — Square Marketing and Square Loyalty — in order to help companies with expanding their sales. Following the announcement, shares of the firm appreciated marginally on Wednesday… Read More

October 8, 2021 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FreedomPay, a consumer-focused commerce platform, has performed an integration with Klarna, the international retail bank, payments and shopping service. Beginning today (October 7, 2021), FreedomPay’s US merchants may provide Klarna’s interest-free payment services at checkout in-store, which should help with boosting sales and “bringing added… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Magnetto, which aims to challenge the traditional retail model by automating the checkout process, has raised £179,651 of its £150,000 target from 157 investors via Crowdcube. Magnetto reports a £2,367,720 pre-money valuation, a 7.05% equity, and a £0.90 share price. The company… Read More