PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

Stefan Weitz, chief product and strategy officer and GM, payments, tax and fraud at omnichannel commerce technology provider Radial , joined the latest installment of PYMNTS’ Commander In Chief Series to share why reducing friction in the realm of consumer payments remains a key point of strategy for every online retailer.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Global Payments, the worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, announced on Thursday (Aug. I would like to thank David for his significant contributions to the growth of Global Payments over the past decade,” said Jeff Sloan, chief executive officer. “I We wish him the very best in his future endeavors.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Kabbage is planning to launch a payment processing service by the end of the year in an attempt to compete with PayPal and Square. We have seen a huge pain point around cash flow management,” she explained, pointing to high monthly fees and lengthy contracts of payment services by other providers. billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Digital payments promise to play a significant role in rebuilding, as will other digital technology – at a time when charities and fundraising efforts around the world are still struggling to make the most of digital marketing and payment methods. As well, links are emerging between digital payments and more charitable giving.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the face of it, the lure of real-time payments might seem like an inevitability. a number of leading tech companies have become vocal in their support of a real-time payments (RTP) network, to be created under the leadership of the Federal Reserve and different from what has been previously proposed by the big banks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Before the pandemic, late B2B payments put a cash flow crunch on countless small and medium-sized businesses around the world. Now, amid the coronavirus crisis, many of those SMBs are getting hit even harder as supply chain disruptions, sluggish business and shutdowns have created a ripple effect of delayed invoice payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Grab , the Southeast Asia ridesharing company, has inked a deal to acquire iKaaz , the mobile payment startup hailing from India. The FinTech startup iKaaz, which was founded in 2012, has a cloud-based platform for online merchants, point-of-sale hardware for retailers and a mobile wallet for customers who want to make digital payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Six-year-old digital payments startup SumUp has managed to secure a 330 million-euro ($371 million) loan, backed by Bain Capital Credit and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. As of today, SumUp makes credit card readers to help businesses of all sizes receive payments faster, both in-store and online.

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MARCH 9, 2021

and its founder and former chief executive officer violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule by processing payments for companies engaged in internet-based technical-support fraud. The sales resulted from telephone calls initiated by consumers who viewed online advertising placed by Tech-Support Clients.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. He will report to Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments, and Richard Haworth, CEO of the Americas business. across credit cards, online savings and loans,” said Rodrigues. and Germany.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

With the speed of payments accelerating and Same Day ACH initiatives continuing to roll out, NACHA has pulled together a group of industry experts to explore API standardization as a way to facilitate faster payment speeds and greater transaction security, among other use cases.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Because many summer camps and recreational programs don’t offer their customers the ability to register or make payments using modern payment processing solutions, program organizers can get stuck entering customer information into a program database manually. Getting Recreational Programs to Act Like Businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

. “Allison is a highly experienced, much-admired marketing leader with a proven track record of building global brands, making her a natural addition to our leadership team,” Schulman said. I was an early convert to PayPal’s vision of fast, secure online payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. Developed as an online bank for startups, Mercy launched in April of this year. trillion locked up in accounts receivable as companies struggle with longer payment terms.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Tencent’s WeChat Pay has introduced a payment service aimed at Chinese students who want to pay their tuition fees at universities in South Korea, according to reports. Although mobile payments are very common in China, simple cross-border transactions are not. Now, the process is shortened to several minutes, according to Tencent.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To deepen its commitment to digital payments in India, Visa has made a minority investment in bill and online payment platform BillDesk. Visa Asia-Pacific Regional President Chris Clark said in the announcement, “As a leading payments player in India, BillDesk has been a longtime business partner to Visa.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

Before joining Udacity, Dalporto was at LendingTree , where he served in several leadership roles throughout his seven-year tenure, including chief marketing officer and chief financial officer. Udacity is a global, online learning platform offering programs that provide credentials earned through a series of online courses and projects.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

“Payment is one of the key infrastructure platforms of the company, enabling us and our merchant partners to complete transactions for online and offline services,” according to the report. “We extended our market leadership as the leading mobile payment platform by active users and number of transactions in China.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

The move comes after the rebranding of “Websites+Marketing,” GoDaddy’s website-building tools suite that debuted late last year and focused on email marketing, search engine optimization, and a consistent, compelling online presence beyond a mere website.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The JFTC said Rakuten was breaching anti-monopoly laws by taking advantage of its leadership position over smaller online retailers that rely on its platform, sources said. The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), the country’s antitrust watchdog, searched the Tokyo headquarters of eCommerce giant Rakuten on Monday (Feb. in 1997.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Neon says it plans to use the funds, which will be split into two tranches worth $150 million each, to hire additional staff, expand its user base and bolster the technological capabilities of its online platform, as well to pump more money into product development. The MEI Fácil platform provides tax and payments products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing about Oct. The 2019 planning sessions that will mark the next 60 days will no doubt include topics of conversation about the scariest things in payments that could knock key players off their game – or turn their plans upside down.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Tencent’s WeChat Pay is launching a new payments feature that lets people transfer funds using a mobile phone number, TechNode reported on Wednesday (Oct. Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China have also launched payment features using a mobile phone number.

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JULY 8, 2022

However, in order to address this leadership mandate, CIOs must break through the tactical mindset and focus that consumes most hours of their day. Oftentimes, bank leadership has issues setting priorities, and the CIO ends up stuck between politically powerful executives competing for resources. 2: Talent Shortage. Innovation Leader.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

retailers online in markets across Africa, according to reports. The platform is in markets such as Kenya, South Africa and Malawi, while local FinTech options like M-Pesa and Paga will be included in the service’s payment methods. The Link Commerce service will facilitate local payments, procurement and delivery.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

McMillon said that he understood that there was more work to be done in terms of the company’s online business, even though its grocery sector is flourishing. The goal, he said, is to grow a larger pool of merchandise online to help make the venture profitable. . There’s not a lot of loyalty here.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Tradeshift , the supply chain payments, and marketplaces company announced Wednesday (May 30) that it is raising $250 million in a Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs and Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). This investment will enable us to continue our rapid growth and consolidate our leadership position.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Chinese online finance giant Ant Financial, headed by billionaire Jack Ma, is seeing an uptick in the desire for credit among small and medium businesses despite the economic slowdown in China, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Oct. The tech unicorn Ant Financial has grown into a $150 billion enterprise under Ma’s leadership.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

We are fortunate to have benefitted from Neil’s leadership for more than a decade. Michelle is a talented professional whose experience and leadership make her a natural and excellent successor to Neil. Its small business online revenue also jumped by 30 percent, Intuit said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Ant Financial Services Group, Alibaba’s online and mobile financial services affiliate, shuffled some of its top executive positions over the weekend and named a new chief executive officer, according to Reuters. Ant Financial also runs the Chinese eCommerce giant’s payment platform, Alipay, which is the dominant payment platform in China.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They may never have made a purchase on the online marketplace, but the odds are good they know at least one good story about something bought it on eBay story. And third — and best known among payments people — eBay purchases PayPal for $1.2 That idea was initially rejected by eBay’s leadership, by Icahn who ultimately prevailed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Online platform eBay announced it has tapped Peter Thompson, former vice president of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services, as its new senior vice president and chief product officer. The firm outlined a strategy that focuses on technology, payments intermediation and capital allocation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

With the completion of the deal, PayPal said it and Synchrony have extended their co-branded consumer credit card program agreement to make Synchrony the exclusive issuer of PayPal’s consumer financing program online in the U.S. The payment option gives its shoppers choice and flexibility in how they pay. through 2028.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Online banking startup Chime has been hit with an outage that has left its 5 million customers with no access to their money. Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

PayU , the online payment company owned by Naspers , announced Monday (July 23) the acquisition of payments technology platform ZOOZ. By working together to create the first ‘Payment OS’ platform, we will advance PayU’s mission to help build a world without financial borders.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

We’re really focused on growing our existing business, leadership position, number of sellers and consumer adoption in those markets,” Poignonnec said. Some of its brands include online takeout service Jumia Food, Jumia Flights for travel bookings and classified services Jumia Deals.

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