Tag: Retail

January 18, 2023

The service is initially going to launch in Germany, France and Spain, with plans to expand into other international markets. With Splitit’s platform and Checkout.com’s payment acquiring capabilities, AliExpress shoppers will be able to pay after delivery using their existing […]

January 17, 2023

Vueling to Collect Payment in Crypto Vueling, one of the Spanish budget airlines that has grown after the Covid-19 travel restrictions ended, is taking its first steps to accepting crypto as payment for its services. The company announced on Jan. […]

January 10, 2023

Clowd9 will use Netcetera’s 3D secure issuer service for transaction authentication and Access Control Server (ACS), currently used by more than 200 banks and card issuers worldwide. The 3D secure server solution is designed for “frictionless and reliable” payment processing […]

January 5, 2023

Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) will have a banner year in 2023, Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean told Karen Webster in an interview. Traditional financial institutions (FIs) will be the critical ingredient for embedded banking software platforms to create new operating systems for […]

January 5, 2023

Pharmacy Offers Ukrainians Option to Pay With Crypto Using Binance Pay Customers of the Ukrainian pharmacy chain ANC can now buy medicines and other items using a number of cryptocurrencies. The new payment option is accessible since Tuesday, the company […]

December 23, 2022

J.P. Morgan closes on a 48.5 per cent ownership stake in Viva Wallet and it continues its Greek expansion. Athens-headquartered Viva Wallet is a cloud-based payments fintech company founded in 2000. It offers value-added services to merchants including tap-to-device technology, […]

December 14, 2022

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that hedge fund Muddy Waters had accused Uruguayan payments company dLocal of using client funds to pay a special dividend to its shareholders from before its June 2021 IPO. The hedge fund said – according […]

November 28, 2022

South-Africa based API payment and collections company Revio has raised USD 1.1 million in a seed round led by SpeedInvest to reduce payments failure in emerging markets. The round was joined by participating investors of the likes of RaliCap Ventures, […]

November 22, 2022

Blockchain for finance pioneer Quant has partnered with digital transformation solutions company UST to provide technical integration and tokenisation services to central and commercial banks and capital markets participants. The partnership will release services which will reportedly help financial institutions […]

November 17, 2022

The crypto firm is looking to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper and more transparent. It explained that in its current state, cross-border payments are slow and unreliable; charging expensive fees. The average fee for consumers to send money across borders […]

November 14, 2022

Aarti Dhapte is a senior analyst at the analysis company Market Research Future. She explained the challenges to overcome to make success of the digital dollar. She said: “There may be drawbacks to a CBDC, notwithstanding the possibility that it […]

November 9, 2022

The merger will allow Finom to unify separate paytech services for freelancers, mid-sized firms and corporate clients across the UK and Europe and boost its expansion plans. Finom co-founder Kos Stiskin says: “Entrepreneurs and freelancers are the backbone of the […]

November 8, 2022

Participating in the round were new investors Eurazeo, RTP Global, HEC Ventures and Allianz Trade, as well as existing investors Target Global, Samaipata and Societe Generale, with angel investors also taking part. The new funding brings Fintecture’s total capital raised […]

November 1, 2022

In the days of cryptocurrency and Apple Pay, many people are more and more comfortable with the intersection of currency and the digital world. Financial institutions are in this transition period, too. It can be nerve-wracking to think about changing […]

October 31, 2022

Businesses that dug into their customer experience for higher profitability now need to dig into their employee experience for many of the same reasons. Enter fintech — where the consumer is the employee — offering organisations an easy way to […]

October 28, 2022

Forty-eight per cent of people do not want to rely on their bank for help during a recession. The digital transformation firm’s newly launched ‘Banking Disruption Index‘ for the UK. This first edition of the index is to become a […]

October 27, 2022

Finxact will join Microsoft and HSO, a business network and cloud consultancy, in delivering the platform that will support Zenus’ retail, corporate and partnership banking operations. Finxact’s core banking system, which leverages open APIs, will enable Zenus to “invent, curate […]

October 26, 2022

Global retailer Amazon has announced that its customers will be enabled to make payments through mobile payments service Venmo on the former’s platform. The company stated that in its initial stage, the option will be available to select customers, and […]

October 26, 2022

The move will allow customers to make global online payments with a Mastercard virtual card linked to Cellulant’s digital wallet offering Tingg. Tingg is a single API payments platform that enables businesses to collect online and offline payments while allowing […]

October 19, 2022

Canada-based fuel and convenience retailer Circle K has chosen The ai Corporation’s (ai) payments platform aiEazyFuel to power its B2B mobile payments app, Circle K PRO. The partnership builds on Circle K’s transformation of its B2B payments offering and enables […]