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PayPal douses reports of a Pinterest purchase
With one sentence, PayPal dismissed a bevy of reports last week that it's pursuing a purchase of the social media site Pinterest.
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Vast Bank's new offering lures "crypto curious"
"Banks for centuries have been safe keepers and custodians of what people value," said CEO Brad Scrivner. "In today's world, that's now digital assets."
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Klarna delivers BNPL to WIX sellers
The Swedish buy now-pay later company adds the new Wix collaboration to a busy year of raising funds and buying startups.
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Stripe agrees to buy Recko
The payments fintech giant is buying Bangalore-based Recko to add more accounting capabilities to its quiver of financial tools for businesses.
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Goldman Sachs, AmEx debut corporate payments service
The investment bank partnership with the largest issuer of business cards aims to make payments easier and more efficient for institutional clients.
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Is PayPal pining for Pinterest?
A reported $45 billion PayPal purchase of Pinterest would cap a big year for deal-making fueled by the payments industry.
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ColumnCelsius, Tether and the 'known known'
Lender Celsius' admission that Tether accepts crypto tokens in exchange for stablecoins should be a bombshell. Rather, it confirms a suspicion regulators held so strongly that they've already penalized Tether for it. Twice.
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Ransomware activity soars, Treasury finds
The number of "suspicious activity reports" filed this year has already jumped 30% over the 2020 total, and the agency has tracked billions of dollars in bitcoin payments potentially linked to ransomware.
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OpinionRetail groups urge credit swipe routing changes
Retail and merchant trade groups have long pressed policymakers for regulatory changes to reduce card interchange fees. Now, they're urging that routing of credit card transactions be regulated just as debit transactions already are.
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Fiserv expands restaurant reach with BentoBox purchase
The global payments processor said it would buy BentoBox to expand the reach of its Clover unit in servicing restaurants.
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Coinbase sees single regulator, new framework for crypto supervision
The approach would keep companies from having to comply with several agencies, which are adapting old laws to new tech, and help maintain the U.S.'s status as a "shaper" of oversight, Coinbase said.
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Billtrust makes $58M acquisition in Europe
The business-to-business software company aims to attract more European clients with the purchase of collections management software firm iController.
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PayPal takes stake in LatAm SPAC
The digital payments giant disclosed that it bought a minority stake in the SPAC rolled out this month by Latin American e-commerce behemoth MercadoLibre and venture capital firm Kaszek.
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SumUp spearheads US growth with $317M Fivestars acquisition
The acquisition of San Francisco-based Fivestars is central to SumUp's expansion strategy in the Americas and its global ambitions.
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AvidXchange's IPO swells to $660M
The debut offering from the payments software firm AvidXchange ballooned this week when the company sold more shares than previously expected at top dollar.
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Andreessen Horowitz poaches Facebook digital wallet execs
Two executives who had been working on the Novi wallet project backed by Facebook will pivot to crypto investing for Andreessen Horowitz.
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Half of CFOs plan to assess digital currencies for business: Gartner
“Sentiment towards digital currencies appears to be improving among finance leaders,” a Gartner researcher said.
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Cross-border payments competition heats up
Three bank-backed payments companies are attempting to increase the speed of cross-border payments, jumping into an arena teeming with fintech rivals.
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Paytech firms outside US gain ground
Payment technology companies based outside the U.S. were big venture capital winners during the third quarter as funding soared to a new record, according to a report from research firm CB Insights.
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Payment tech lifts construction venture funding
New venture funding for Built Technologies, which provides finance and payment tech for the construction industry, contributed to contech firms attracting $2.1 billion this year, a Construction Dive analysis has found.
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Affirm, Sezzle buy now-pay later options arrive at Target
As the holiday season nears, the big retailer has tapped BNPL providers Sezzle and Affirm to give consumers more payment choices. The BNPL players are building their US profiles by gathering in more partners.
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Green Dot sued after ditching $165M deal
The prepaid card company was sued by Republic Bank, which alleges Green Dot breached a contract to buy its tax refund processing unit.
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Spat erupts over postal banking pilot
Bank and trade groups derided the US Postal Service's new limited pilot program for financial services, but advocates say it could provide needed services for unbanked consumers and buttress USPS's operations.
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Rich payment startups target B2B market
Veem and Melio are among the fintechs bulging with new capital and taking aim at the small and mid-sized end of the trillion-dollar business-to-business payments market.
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Card critics call for credit routing scrutiny
One merchant group has opened up a new front in the battle against Visa and Mastercard, calling for more federal antitrust scrutiny of credit card routing.
