Tipalti, BlueSnap target trillion-dollar middle market

The two payments companies with cross-border capabilities see opportunity in the middle-market because few businesses in that segment have digitized their financial operations.

By Lynne Marek • April 19, 2021

Checkout.com rolls out new product to provide real-time payouts

The new payment interface enables merchants and individuals to process domestic and cross-border payments in real-time.

By Vaidik Trivedi • April 14, 2021

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Cross-border payments targeted for upgrades

When it comes to cross-border payments, businesses, non-profits and governments alike are determined to increase the speed of transactions and cut the cost.

By Payments Dive staff

Payroc plans to keep buying up payments players

The payments processor, under a new president's focus on growth, has acquired two companies in the past two weeks and expects to close on additional deals this month.

By Lynne Marek • April 9, 2021

Rapyd targets Miami expansion as it eyes global growth

The company rolled out a $100 million promotion in the city last month, and it's starting to get some response.

By Matt Thibault • April 9, 2021

Payoneer stock declines after SPAC trading debut

The payments enterprise is the latest special purpose acquisition company to meet with tepid stockholder interest at its stock debut yesterday.

By Lynne Marek • Updated June 29, 2021

Fraud picks up as the economy goes digital during the pandemic, studies find

Digital transactions are vulnerable to fraud with more than $1 trillion stolen in 2020 due to cybercrime, new research from Sift and FICO revealed.

By Vaidik Trivedi • April 1, 2021

Visa expands payments network via Earthport acquisition

The company known for its credit and debit cards is building up its network to let payments happen without touching a card.

By Lynne Marek • March 30, 2021

Fiserv looks to boost POS business through Pineapple Payments acquisition

Fiserv looks to boost its Clover POS system sales by tapping into Pineapple Payments existing customers.

By Vaidik Trivedi • March 29, 2021

MoneyGram launches B2B service for global money transfer

Additionally, customers can transact through G-Coin tokens, which are backed by gold and allows people to own, save and spend the coin as a digital fiat currency.

By Anthony Epling • March 25, 2021

Jumio lands $150M from private equity firm Great Hill Partners

The company focuses on B2B services, using digital identity verification tools including biometrics, computer vision, big data and machine learning to verify account-holders' identity and thwart fraud. 

By Lynne Marek • March 23, 2021

Ultrasound payment authentication platform LISNR looks to raise capital, partners with Shuttl

Backed by Visa, the company has raised $40 million since its 2012 inception and will continue to fund its growth in the payments authentication landscape, LISNR's CEO Eric Allen told Payments Dive.

By Vaidik Trivedi • March 22, 2021

TreviPay targets acquisitions in Latin America, Southeast Asia

The B2B payments player, purchased by a private equity firm last year, is gunning for growth after the pandemic accelerated a trend toward businesses digitizing their payments systems.

By Lynne Marek • March 19, 2021

Mastercard, Visa to postpone some fee increases next month

Bowing to pressure from the White House and Congressional Democrats, the credit card companies won't increase expenses for merchants and consumers who are still coping with the  pandemic.

By Lynne Marek • March 16, 2021

Nexus Systems teams with JPMorgan Chase on new payment service

Nexus caters to the real estate industry, and will partner with the bank in a bid to attract more small and mid-sized businesses to its "virtual card" service offering.

By Lynne Marek • March 16, 2021

Stripe's new $95B valuation makes it the most valuable Silicon Valley startup

The payments processing company's new valuation is based on raising $600 million in new capital that it plans to use for further expansion in Europe.

By Lynne Marek • March 15, 2021

Payments company Flywire to IPO, estimated $3B valuation

"Flywire becomes the pay button" for international students to pay U.S. businesses in their home currency, CEO Mike Massaro said.

By Anthony Epling • March 15, 2021

Lightspeed POS to acquire retail software company Vend for $350M

Lightspeed will leverage Vend's complementary technology stack and user experience capabilities to deliver commerce capabilities to retailers around the world.

By Anthony Epling • March 15, 2021

PayPal CFO: Pandemic has created 'inflection point' for digital payments

The virtual payments processor does not anticipate a post-pandemic drop in business, and intends to double its user base and triple total payment volume, according to John Rainey.

By Jane Thier • March 5, 2021

Seattle-based payments company suffers ransomware attack

The company Automatic Funds Transfer Services offers payments processing, billing and other services for customers and municipalities in Washington and California.

By Anthony Epling • March 4, 2021

Square launches long-awaited industrial bank

The FDIC gave the fintech conditional approval for an ILC charter nearly a year ago. Now the company can originate small-business loans rather than doing so through its previous partner, Celtic Bank.

By Dan Ennis • March 2, 2021

Inside Marqeta's plans to grow its 'card-as-a-service' offering

The card issuer and processor is differentiating through a flexible, API-based platform that helps clients launch card offerings in months instead of years.

By Suman Bhattacharyya • March 2, 2021

Why Global Payments went multicloud

Large companies venture down the multicloud path to support different business arms.

By Katie Malone • Feb. 11, 2021

Plaid sees 'opportunity' after $5.3B Visa deal ends

The data aggregator's biggest priority now is getting 75% of its traffic dedicated to application programming interfaces by the end of 2021 — a prospect John Pitts, Plaid's head of policy, calls an "immense challenge."

By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 19, 2021

American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation

As the credit card issuer caters to merchants migrating online, multiple agencies are scrutinizing its sales practices.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Jan. 8, 2021

Banks can use stablecoins, blockchains for payments, OCC says

The move follows a letter the agency issued in July clarifying national banks are allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody services, and hold unique cryptographic "keys" associated with cryptocurrency on behalf of customers.

By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 5, 2021