As payments giants combine, Square narrows its focus
Mega-mergers in the payments sector appear to be leading Square to narrow its business focus and boost investment in its seller ...
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Fintech Unfiltered: Tokenization, APIs & Payouts on List for PayPal-owned Braintree in 2019
In the five years since payments company PayPal acquired Braintree, a comprehensive payment platform, it has seen over $500 billion ...
Why Contactless, Not Cash, is King in Canada
Contactless, not cash, is king in Canada. Brian Lang, president of Mastercard in Canada, said at a closed event in ...
Did Consumers Even Notice the Death of the Signature?
EXCLUSIVE —The age of signing receipts for in-store purchases met its end last week, and while this means the end ...
UnionPay Teams Up With Huawei to Expand Huawei Pay WorldWide
UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay, has partnered with telecoms company Huawei Technologies to launch mobile payment service Huawei ...
LendingPoint Acquires LoanHero to Expand Customer Base, POS Capabilities
EXCLUSIVE—LendingPoint has formally acquired LoanHero, a move that will allow the balance sheet lender to both expand its customer focus ...
Swedish Payment Company iZettle Raises $47 Million in Funding
Swedish payment company iZettle today announced it raised €40 million ($47.05 million) in funding to accelerate growth. The round was ...
Discover Ditches Signatures at the POS
Discover will no longer require signatures as a form of authentication at the point-of-sale, turning instead to identification methods like ...
UK Startup LBX to Launch Debit Card for Crypto Spending at the POS
UK-based startup, the London Block Exchange (LBX) is launching a debit card that will allow users to spend cryptocurrencies at ...
PPRO Partners with Klarna to Expand Credit Payments in Europe
European bank Klarna is teaming up with digital cross-border payments service PPRO Group to offer expanded credit-based payments to European ...
