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Fiserv, Deutsche Bank team up in German market
Fiserv and Deutsche Bank are locking arms to allow the German bank's business customers to accept payments through Clover, Fiserv's point of sale (POS) system.
By Lynne Marek • June 22, 2021 -
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PayPal to increase merchant fees in August
The company said it's planning to raise some U.S. transaction fees despite a crowd of competitors angling to lure merchants and consumers to alternative payment services. At the same time, it said it would cut a handful of other fees.
By Lynne Marek • June 20, 2021 -
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TrendlineDigital wallets proliferate as features advance
As more companies aim to offer digital wallets the rise in competition is sharpening their features.
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Discover makes a crypto move with new hire
With the hiring of a new manager for blockchain and digital currency, Discover Financial is planting a flag in the card company race to grab a share of money increasingly flowing through cryptocurrencies.
By Lynne Marek • June 18, 2021 -
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Global Payments, CDK team to court car dealers
Companies are racing to sell a new generation of payment technology systems to auto dealerships.
By Lynne Marek • June 17, 2021 -
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Visa pilots US merchant phone-tap system
The new payment option allows merchants to convert their android smartphones into POS systems to accept tap payments.
By Vaidik Trivedi • June 16, 2021 -
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ColumnHow payments became a magnet for money
The industry was beginning to attract record amounts of venture capital in recent years, but the pandemic's impact super-charged the trend.
By Lynne Marek • June 15, 2021 -
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Toast buys xtraChef for back-office payments and operations management
The acquisition will allow the point of sale (POS) company to offer insights into profitability by menu item, automation and intelligence tools to streamline tasks like accounts payable, managing inventory and tracking margins.
By Julie Littman • June 11, 2021 -
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Socure gears up for IPO, perhaps sooner than expected
The identity verification company added new top executives and raised its profile in the wake of peer stock offerings that showed investors' appetite for payment company shares.
By Lynne Marek • June 11, 2021 -
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Clair attracts $15M for its on-demand pay play
Clair is bolstering its resources as competition intensifies in offering employers and employees on-demand pay options.
By Lynne Marek • June 9, 2021 -
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Walmart makes cash payment options more efficient
The retailer in August will start offering a faster cash payment option at 4,000 locations to customers paying monthly bills, through its partnership with financial tech partners PayNearMe and Green Dot.
By Lynne Marek • June 8, 2021 -
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Regulators increase scrutiny of cryptos in money-laundering
The decentralized and anonymous nature of cryptocurrency makes it susceptible to money laundering, and governments across the globe must respond, industry experts said during Payments Canada Summit last week.
By Vaidik Trivedi • June 7, 2021 -
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'Super-apps' are the next evolutionary step for financial services
As transactions are increasingly digitized, financial service providers are vying to create "super-apps" that connect consumers to a bevy of financial services.
By Vaidik Trivedi • June 7, 2021 -
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Goldman Sachs taps Visa for cross-border payment upgrade
The global investment bank is aiming to streamline and enhance cross-border payments for its clients by signing on for Visa's cross-border programs.
By Lynne Marek • June 7, 2021 -
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Consumer spending changes likely to stick, Visa says
For better or worse, some of the pandemic-triggered behavioral changes, like more online purchasing and digital payments, are likely to outlast COVID, a top executive for the company said.
By Lynne Marek • June 3, 2021 -
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Mastercard invests in fledgling fintech Synctera
San Francisco-based Synctera, only six months old, draws $33 million from a pack of investors as it takes on the role of matchmaker between small banks and fintechs.
By Lynne Marek • June 3, 2021 -
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DLocal raises $75M in IPO, spearheads emerging markets
DLocal aims to expand in emerging markets because "strong cross-border business partnerships between global merchants and service providers are important and will continue to gain importance," DLocal COO Sumita Pandit told Payments Dive.
By Vaidik Trivedi • June 3, 2021 -
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Crypto exchange Kraken launches mobile app in US
Customers can buy and sell more than 50 crypto tokens from their mobile phones with a starting investment of as little as $10. The services are not available for residents of New York or Washington state.
By Dan Ennis • June 3, 2021 -
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Certegy aims to counter rivals with white label offering
Certegy is taking aim at competing buy now-pay later market players with its new product, as customer adoption of that BNPL financing option grows.
By Vaidik Trivedi • June 2, 2021 -
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SpotOn raises $125M to keep up battle against Toast, Square
"We're always looking for companies to partner with or acquire," said SpotOn Co-CEO Zach Hyman. "It's always a question of build versus buy."
By Lynne Marek • June 1, 2021 -
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Sift acquires Chargeback to crack down on rising payments fraud
Sift is beefing up its ability to fight rising e-commerce fraud through its acquisition of software-as-a-service company Chargeback.
By Vaidik Trivedi • May 31, 2021 -
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Parthenon Capital, Tiger Global fuel payments sector 'boom'
Competition among firms to invest in payment industry companies is driving up fundraising amounts and valuations.
By Lynne Marek • May 28, 2021 -
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E-commerce fraud prevention startup Forter raises $300M
The recent funding round, which the company will use to expand its global ecosystem, brings the company's valuation to $3 billion.
By Tatiana Walk-Morris • May 27, 2021 -
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Paymentus raises $210M in IPO, eyes international expansion
The company aims to acquire other companies as it pursues expansion in the European, Asia-Pacific and LatAm markets.
By Vaidik Trivedi • May 26, 2021 -
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Fiserv, PayMyTuition partner to ease Chinese student tuition payments
The partnership will provide services for Chinese student tuition payments to educational institutions in Australia and Singapore and expand to other parts of the world.
By Vaidik Trivedi • May 26, 2021 -
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Visa expands reach of fintech partnership program
The card network behemoth is doing its part to help banks connect with fintechs that it believes can help bring more business to all the companies moving money through the system.
By Lynne Marek • May 26, 2021
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