Payments Technology

POS lending is growing at 20% plus annually

ChargeAfter partners to grow POS financing technology and options for merchants, consumers

Point-of-sale (POS) funding technology platform ChargeAfter and Japanese venture capital firm MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP) announced plans for a strategic investment to provide global e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers ...
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Skrill global money transfers from US

Skrill launches free international money transfer service in US

Global payments platform Paysafe launched the Skrill Money Transfer service which allows customers to transfer money for free to friends and family in Mexico, India, and 16 other ...
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IBM-Prairie Payments Joint Venture

Canadian credit unions and IBM plan new payments as a service platform

Credit unions in three Canadian provinces will be looking blue when it comes to modernizing their payments technology and platforms in a new eight-year, $100 million technology services ...
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bitcoin ATM facts

Bitcoin ATMs still growing in US and worldwide

While bitcoin has recovered value substantially in the past 30 days, rising last week above $10,000 in trading, adoption is also showing some encouraging signs based on the ...
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ChargeAfter POS financing

ChargeAfter gets Visa investment & network access

Point of sale financing platform ChargeAfter got a big boost with a strategic investment and network access to Visa’s network of sellers, acquirers and issuing banks. The new ...
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Invoiced automated AR services

Invoiced hits $10 billion in automated accounts receivables

The global automated accounts receivables marketplace was estimated at $1.7 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 12.1% to reach $3 billion ...
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payments industry predictions

2020 will be a transformational year in payments technology

By Vinay Kashyap, Mainsail Partners As 2020 gets underway, the upheavals that shook the payments industry over the past year show no sign of ending. All signs point ...
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Visa's Tap to Pay turns Samsung smartphone into POS device

Visa, Samsung collaborate on payments and smartphone POS solution

A new collaboration between Visa and smartphone maker Samsung electronics brings simple mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment capability to millions of businesses without the need for expensive hardware, maintenance, ...
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Standard Chartered Bank SWIFT gpi

Standard Chartered launches first payments tracking ahead of SWIFT Nov 2020 deadline

Back in July 2019, more than 50 banks and corporations signed up with SWIFT to initiate SWIFT GPI tracking of international payments as a way to enhance e-commerce ...
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Lamborghini Huracan EVO voice services

Hey Alexa, fill up my gas tank

It’s getting to the point where voice skills like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can do just about everything except give the kids a bath. The timing of ...
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