Remove 2012 Remove Payments Remove Taxes Remove Technology
article thumbnail

WeChat, Alipay Partner QFPay Notches $20M For Payment Innovation

PYMNTS

Digital payments startup QFPay , the largest global partner of WeChat Pay and Alipay, raised $20 million in new funding led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and Matrix Partners, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. QFPay was founded in China in 2012 and is known for its QR code-based technology.

article thumbnail

Top News In Payments: Grubhub Denies Sale Rumors; PayU Acquires India FinTech PaySense

PYMNTS

percent drop in share prices, and Netherlands payments firm PayU buys a majority stake in the India FinTech PaySense. Netherlands payments firm PayU announced on Friday (Jan. Chamber of Commerce, criticized presidential candidates on their proposed policies concerning Medicare and taxing of the wealthy. The news triggered a 6.7

Fintech 131
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

Abrigo

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

Trends 219
article thumbnail

Small Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants

PYMNTS

Separate reports from The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), published last April, also demonstrated the changing nature of corporate finance: While the Big Four accounting firms’ advisory and consulting revenue jumped by a combined 44 percent since 2012, revenue from straightforward auditing for the firms rose just 3 percent in that time.

Taxes 179
article thumbnail

Challenges to monetary policy: lessons from Medieval Europe

BankUnderground

This is done by ensuring money is produced according to the strictest standards and avoiding manipulating it to the king’s benefit ( inflation tax ). The French crown successfully engaged in repeated episodes of inflation-tax financing of wars ( Sussman and Zeira (2003) ). Medieval monetary policy operated without a central bank.

Policies 114
article thumbnail

Google Tracker: Making Allies And Enemies

PYMNTS

The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies alerted Google to the cyberattack on Aug. 2012 not to use third-party content such as images and reviews from parties that opted out, a practice known as “scraping.” The company is now demanding the Federal Trade Commission reopen that 2012 Google case “ immediately.”.

Google 100
article thumbnail

Adapting To The ‘Nitty-Gritty’ Of Subscriptions

PYMNTS

But, all that popularity isn’t worth much if the platforms providing those on-demand services can’t receive their monthly payments. Today, the company processes more than $700 million in subscription payments for subscription service companies including vinyl record provider Vinyl Me Now and food and supplement firm Soylent, among others.

Apple 100