Tagged: payments

Fintech Firm PayQuicker Partners with MONAT Global

PayQuicker, a Fintech firm focused on the global payouts market, today announced its partnership with MONAT Global, a direct-selling company known for its haircare, skincare, and wellness products. MONAT will leverage PayQuicker’s unique offerings “to streamline commission-based payments to their Market Partners across the globe… Read More

Fiserv Is Reportedly Looking to Acquire Shift4 Payments

Fiserv (NYSE: FI) is reportedly battling it out with Amadeus IT Group in order to acquire payments processor Shift4 Payments. This, according to an update from Reuters. Publicly-listed Shift4, which claims a market valuation of about $7 billion, has been running a sales process during… Read More

UK Fintech TangoPay and Currencycloud to Improve Remittance Services

Currencycloud, the Fintech firm focused on simplifying business processes in a multi-currency environment, has teamed up with UK-headquartered Fintech company, TangoPay to improve its remittance service for its UK-based expat clients. This enhancement will be achieved by introducing real-time competitive foreign exchange (FX) rates along… Read More

Global Payments Fintech Airwallex to Expand Business Operations with New Hires

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced the expansion of its global leadership team, with three new hires based out of the company’s Americas headquarters in San Francisco. Jason Gottlieb joins “as VP, Financial Partnerships, Hugo Buret as Global Head of… Read More

MercadoLibre Appoints New Fintech Chief in Brazil to Boost Financial Product Offerings

MercadoLibre Inc., the powerhouse of e-commerce and payments in Latin America, has appointed Andre Chaves as the head of its fintech division, Mercado Pago, in the country, according to a Bloomberg report. Chaves, 41, steps into his new role with a rich background in corporate… Read More

Mastercard and Loop to Launch Payment Solutions in Saudi Arabia

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has partnered with Loop, a digital payments technology company licensed by SAMA, to empower businesses and consumers across the Kingdom with greater access to advanced credit card offerings and innovative payment solutions. The partnership will see Loop “expand its portfolio, enhance its… Read More

Programmable Payments Solution Introduced by Wedge

Wedge, a Fintech startup, has launched the Wedge white-label programmable payments platform. Banks and credit unions nationwide can now “issue customers the industry’s most advanced debit cards, offering them the ability to use their most efficient payment method available at every point of purchase, physically… Read More

Socure Teams Up with Open Banking Fintech Trustly

Socure, a provider of artificial intelligence [AI] for digital identity verification,  and Trustly, an Open Banking payments provider, today announced a partnership to offer merchants and Fintechs a streamlined onboarding and guaranteed Pay by Bank solution. This integration allows merchants, especially in industries “that require… Read More

Fintech Checkbook and Visa to Expedite Disbursements to Businesses

Checkbook, an all-in-one payments platform, announced a multi-year collaboration with Visa (NYSE:V) aimed at expediting disbursements to businesses, institutions, and individuals across millions of endpoints around the country. This announcement builds on Visa and Checkbook’s incremental collaboration “with Checkbook having participated in the Visa FastTrack… Read More

Fintech Orum Connects to Federal Reserve to Enhance Payments

Orum is live with FedACH and will be adding FedNow and FedWire services. The direct connection to the Federal Reserve’s payment rails “as a service provider is part of Orum’s new money movement API, Deliver.” The Deliver API orchestrates and optimizes money movement “through Federal Reserve… Read More

Bahrain’s Eazy Financial Services Partners with Visa

Eazy Financial Services (EazyPay), a Bahraini financial institute specialized in Point-of-Sale (POS) and online payment gateway acquiring services, has joined forces with Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, in order “to enable Visa Direct, a cutting-edge funds transfer solution for EazyPay’s customer… Read More

UK Fintech Volt Approved to Operate as a E-Money Platform

Volt is the next Fintech to be approved by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be approved as an E-money service provider. Currently, Volt provides real-time payments. Frequently, once a platform is an E-money institution (EMI) they may offer additional financial services. Volt states… Read More

Fintech Platform Backbase and Alacriti to Enable Instant Payment Solutions for FIs

Backbase says that Alacriti, a cloud-based payments and money services provider, will integrate its payments hub solution into the Backbase Engagement Banking Platform. Through this partnership, Backbase clients will be “able to offer instant payment capabilities to their customers. Backbase, leveraging Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub, will… Read More

Fintech Finix Expands Payments Offering into Canadian Market

Finix, the payments technology provider enabling businesses to accept and send payments, announced today that its suite of unified payment offerings is now available in Canada. This marks the company’s first international launch as it “continues to enable businesses of all sizes to create reliable… Read More

European Union Adopts Instant Payments Regulatory Guidelines

The European Council reportedly adopted a regulation that will make instant payments fully available in euro to consumers and businesses in the EU and in EEA countries. The new rules will improve the strategic autonomy of the European economic and financial sector as they will… Read More

Fintech REPAY and Maxyfi to Streamline Collection of Payments

Repay Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: RPAY), a provider of vertically-integrated payment solutions, announced a new partnership and technology integration with Maxyfi, a provider of collections and accounts receivables management software for lenders, collection agencies, and law firms. The collaboration enables Maxyfi clients to “offer flexible payment… Read More

Finzly Selected By Quaint Oak Bank to Improve Embedded Banking with Modern Payments Infrastructure

Finzly, a payments systems for financial institutions, has announced that Quaint Oak Bank has selected it to modernize its payments infrastructure, providing a superior user experience and enabling them to grow their international and embedded banking businesses. Quaint Oak is an established financial institution “with… Read More

BNPL: Fintech Adyen and Billie to Bring Buy Now Pay Later to Firms Across Europe

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies, and Billie, the B2B payments innovator, join forces to let Adyen’s customers enable B2B Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payments services. By partnering up with Billie, Adyen reportedly “helps merchants and their business customers… Read More

Real-Time International Payments: Ebury and Fintech Nium to Enable Remittance Service in Brazil

Ebury, one of the largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the enabler of real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil. The announcement follows regulatory “approval of Ebury’s acquisition of Brazilian fintech Bexs,… Read More

Instant Payments to Be Introduced by Qatar Central Bank

The Qatar Central Bank will reportedly introduce the FAWRAN instant payment service. Qatar Central Bank (QCB) has called on the domestic banking institution to adjust their status as part of its plans to introduce the instant payment service (called Fawran) in March of 2024. The… Read More

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