Payments

PayJunction Announces Contactless Payment Processing to Address COVID-19 Mandates

Bret Clement from PayJunction
21 Jul 2020
PayJunction, a leading developer of payment processing technology, has launched the first cloud-controlled and completely contactless payment solution to help businesses reduce potential exposure to the virus for staff and customers. For any businesses that allow customers inside, the PayJunc...

Swipesum Announces $1.1M Funding Round Lead by Cequel III

Amy E Franklin from SwipeSum
08 Jul 2020
SwipeSum, a software-enabled service that finds any business the best payments solution at the best rate, at no cost to them, announces today a $1.1M funding round lead by Jerry Kent at Cequel III, with angel investors Larry Schiffer and Andy Love, and Greenway Family Office – all St. Louis based...

Paytend Launches Smart POS and APP in Europe with Better Acquiring Solutions

Emily Sun from Paytend Europe
15 Jun 2020
VILNIUS - June 15, 2020 - Paytend Europe, the global Fin Tech company, has announced the launch of all-in-one smart POS, APOS A8, and Paytend POS app for merchants in Europe. It allows merchants to accept both contactless and traditional card-based payments. Customers can speed up the checkout by...

Enfuce approved as an authorized payment institution

Linda Essén from Enfuce
05 Jun 2020
Finland’s biggest fintech start-up Enfuce has been accredited as an authorised payment institution by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA)*. Customers pursuing new opportunities introduced through the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), can now perform account information a...

EARTHBANC IS THE WORLD’S FIRST ‘BATTLE-TESTED’ GREEN FINTECH AFTER GRADUATING FROM EXCLUSIVE BLOCKCHAIN SANDBOX

Irina Fedorenko from Earthbanc
31 May 2020
Earthbanc, the world’s first green digital banking and investment platform with a high yield green bond, has graduated from The Central Bank of Lithuania’s LBChain project. Earthbanc is one of only five fintechs from five different countries to complete the three testing stages and graduate from ...

Form3 and Barclays announce directly connected access to SEPA Instant Payments for Non-banks

Laura Francis from Form3
05 May 2020
Form3 and Barclays have announced a combined directly connected access solution to the SEPA Instant payment scheme with Ebury as launch client. This is the first solution of its kind in Europe that enables direct technical scheme access for non-banks such as FinTechs. Directly connecting to...

The ai Corporation (ai) upgrades EazyFuel™ for PCI compliance

The ai Corporation from The ai Corporation
05 May 2020
- ai upgrades its closed loop fuel card platform to fully comply with PCI, in anticipation of expansion of PCI DSS to B2B fuel cards. LONDON, May 5, 2020: The ai Corporation (ai), an FCA approved expert in payments, fraud and risk management, today announced that it has upgraded EazyFuel™, i...

APEXX partners with Volt to unlock Open Banking Payments for their global offering

Apexx Global from Apexx Global
30 Apr 2020
APEXX partners with Volt to unlock Open Banking Payments for their global offering London – 30 April 2020 – APEXX Global (‘APEXX’), the leading global payments platform, is pleased to announce a wide-ranging partnership with the Open Banking digital money platform, Volt. The pa...

Gobbill and AirPay enable Alipay & WeChat payments, 1M+ users to process AU bills

LaunchLink Communications from LaunchLink Communications
30 Mar 2020
-Australian fintech AirPay and bill payment automation company Gobbill to launch a new app feature for 1+ million users. -The “ToPay” feature is available via Chinese media app Today Australia, allowing Australian bills to be paid with WeChat Pay and Alipay. Fraud detection and payment...

PC-EFTPOS REBRANDS TO LINKLY

Lee Hall from PMG
03 Feb 2020
The leading provider of payment integration technology in Australia, PC-EFTPOS, has rebranded to Linkly as part of a larger expansion plan, following the recent acquisition by Potentia Capital. Along with a new name, logo and website – the company has updated a number of its payment products a...

Clarus Merchant Services and CardMachineOutlet.com Announce Strategic Partnership

Michael Jaffe from Clarus Merchant Services
30 Jan 2020
Clarus Merchant Services and CardMachineOutlet.com are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership; combining Clarus’ industry-leading agent sales programs and ISO/agent portfolio acquisitions with CardMachineOutlet.com’s world-class hardware distribution model that drives ...

allpay limited Selected by The National Lottery Community Fund for #CelebrateNationalLottery25 Campaign

Melanie from Grapevine PR
23 Jan 2020
E-money issuer allpay limited, has announced it has been selected following a tender process by The National Lottery Community Fund, to issue prepaid Mastercard® cards to distribute a special £2 million National Lottery fund, which aims to bring communities together across the UK, as part of The ...

Pockit’s New Card is Brighter, Better, Bolder with allpay.cards

Melanie from Grapevine PR
16 Jan 2020
Award-winning FinTech, Pockit, has launched a new card design for its mobile current account and Pockit Prepaid Mastercard®. Founded in 2014 with a mission to make a better current account for customers who are excluded and underserved by high-street banks, Pockit provides a simple way for people...

How Can Online Businesses Avoid Payment Fraud?

Ryan from Apaylo Finance Technology Inc.
23 Dec 2019
With holiday shopping in full swing, record numbers of buyers are doing their gift buying online. This year alone, there are expected to be nearly 2 billion eCommerce customers worldwide, up from 1.3 billion just 5 years ago. The total value of their transactions? $3.45 trillion, up from $...

Pakistan Mercantile Exchange PMEX chooses Cloudasset for their global digital payments

Vilma Valtonen from Cloudasset
17 Dec 2019
Cloudasset, Helsinki based Fintech company, has signed a 3-year agreement with Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) on December 16, 2019, to digitise their Global Payments and fund flows for Domestic and International customers. Under the agreement, Cloudasset’s P3 global platform will provide r...

Grovara joins Stripe Partner Program to bring more global B2B commerce online and increase the GDP of the internet

Joe Petrucci from Grovara
08 Dec 2019
Grovara’s first-of-its-kind, end-to-end B2B technology platform that automates and manages workflow associated with exporting American wellness brands, combined with Stripe’s seamless payments platform, helps merchants process complex international payments (Aug. 12, 2019) SAN FRANCISCO — Gro...

allpay.cards Designs & Manufactures Caxton’s New Sterling Card for Corporate Expense Management

Melanie from Grapevine PR
12 Nov 2019
Leading UK card manufacturer and bureau allpay.cards, has designed the new Sterling corporate card for Caxton Business. Caxton, named as FX provider of the year in the FT and Investors Chronical awards , has just launched the new card in response to demand from organisations mainly operating ...

B-Social Switches to allpay.cards for Manufacture and Personalisation of Cards

Melanie from Grapevine PR
11 Nov 2019
Leading UK card manufacturer and bureau, allpay.cards has announced it is now managing the manufacture and personalisation services of cards for B-Social. The B-Social app and accompanying card, which first launched in February 2019, enables users to have control over everyday spending, track exp...

Payments innovation platform Weavr announces launch partners

Alex Mifsud from Weavr
31 Oct 2019
Today, Weavr, the open collaboration platform for digital innovators and fintechs, announced Global Processing Services (GPS), Paynetics and iDenfy as its launch partners. Together, these innovation-friendly payment service providers will support Weavr’s current closed-beta early adopters and ena...

Revolutionary Fintech of the Year 2019 is Cloudasset

Vilma Valtonen from Cloudasset
24 Oct 2019
Nordic Future Digital Finance Forum’s 8th edition was held in Valkoinen Sali, Helsinki on 22-23 October. The two-day event brought together hundreds of professionals from all around Europe including Fintechs, banks, investors and regulators. As part of the event Helsinki Fintech Farm organised ...

Form3 announces the creation of its International Payments business

Laura Francis from Form3
23 Sep 2019
Form3, the leading cloud-native API payments platform company today announced the creation of its International Payments Business, a new initiative by Form3 to give consumers and SMEs access to low cost payment services, utilising its API technology. Through its initial partnership with Ebury,...

Finnish Fintech startup Cloudasset scores two category wins and a Grand Prix Special Prize in a prestigious e-Payments Challenge by Worldline

Vilma Valtonen from Cloudasset
23 Sep 2019
Cloudasset, a Helsinki based Fintech company, competed in Worldline’s E-Payments Challenge beside 26 Fintechs from around Europe. Cloudasset was awarded the most number of awards per company in the Worldline E-Payments Challenge this year including the Worldline’s Grand Prix Special Prize. Wor...

European payment FinTech Clearhaus announces integration with DACH-region payment provider Payrexx

Neha Mirchandani from Clearhaus A/S
18 Sep 2019
18 September 2019: Payrexx - a fast-growing payment provider in the DACH region - will integrate with the EU payment FinTech and merchant acquirer, Clearhaus, for processing Visa, Mastercard, Google Pay, and Apple Pay payments online. The partnership will bring two quickly expanding FinTech playe...

BitBucks goes live! Bitcoin payments to phone numbers within seconds

Frank Meier from FUF // Frank und Freunde GmbH
04 Sep 2019
Finally the BitBucks app is going live on mainnet. Payments are the key for the adoption of Bitcoin in everyday life and BitBucks makes this possible in a completely new and innovative way. Simply pay with bitcoin by using the phone number of the payee - and all that within seconds. Get the BitBu...

FinTech Start-Up ‘SPLT’ Announces Launch of New White-Labelled Group Payment Platform

Ryan Wylie from SPLT
15 Jul 2019
SPLT seamlessly integrates into businesses existing payment set-ups, allowing the processing of multiple customer payments against a single booking reference. LONDON (15th July 2019): UK FinTech start-up SPLT today announced the launch of its new group payment platform; an integrated white-la...

Form3 in partnership with Ebury awarded £5m in latest BCR Capability and Innovation fund, Pool D

Laura Francis from Form3
14 Jun 2019
The Board of Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR) has announced today that Form3 in partnership with Ebury Partners are awarded £5m funds of the Capability and Innovation Fund Pool D grant. The grant will support Form3 and Ebury in building the first API-based global transaction platform for U...

CloudTrade Technologies’ PDF Invoice to SAP Ariba Capability – Customisations Solution Now Available On SAP® App Center

Matt Fincham from Finch PR Ltd
10 Jun 2019
Solution delivers a service to convert supplier application generated PDF invoices to an SAP Ariba Network invoice for automated processing to the buyer CloudTrade Technologies Ltd. has announced that its PDF Invoice to SAP Ariba Capability – Customisations solution is now available for purch...

Mastercard’s new Pay by Bank app capability added to aiGateway™

The ai Corporation from The ai Corporation
16 Apr 2019
- aiGateway, The ai Corporation’s omni channel payment gateway, is now used by over 40,000 merchants across the Globe - Omni channel payments are protected by ai’s state of the art, self-service fraud and analytic solutions, supporting multiple risk models The ai Corporation (ai), an FCA appr...

Eric Barbier, Founder of TransferTo, invests in Singapore Fintech startup, MoolahGo

Mandy from MoolahGo
19 Mar 2019
MoolahGo (www.moolahgo.com) today announced that Mr. Eric Barbier has joined the Company as a strategic investor in its Pre-Series funding round for an undisclosed amount. Mr. Barbier founded TransferTo in 2005 and turned it into one of the world’s leading cross-border mobile payments network ...

Moorwand unveils strategic partnership with ClearBank®

Sarah Michelle Broughton from Blue Train Marketing Limited
05 Mar 2019
Moorwand, the international payments company and BIN sponsor, partners with ClearBank® for real-time payment services LONDON, Tuesday 5th March 2019 Moorwand, an international payments company offering issuing and acquiring solutions, has selected ClearBank® as its strategic agency banker...

Tailored Payment Scenarios for Businesses Across High-risk Industries

Alexandra Ghidoarca-Novac from NeoPay
22 Feb 2019
Cyprus, 22 February 2018: NeoPay is a new payments venture aiming at becoming a major FinTech player and setting up a new standard in digital banking. NeoPay’s model assumes that each customer or business is unique and a personalised banking experience is the answer to the one-size-fits-all digit...

Event: The Future of Payments and Compliance

PCI Pal from PCI Pal
04 Feb 2019
London, UK: PCI Pal, the specialist provider of secure payment solutions for contact centres, and its partner Pay360 by Capita, are together hosting ‘The Future of Payments and Compliance’ event to help organisations understand the latest PCI compliance obligations and the latest trends The e...

Collaboration with Paysafe Expands International Reach for Maxpay Merchants

Lesia from Maxpay
18 Jan 2019
Paysafe Group’s acquiring and gateway services offer Maxpay’s business merchants more global payment processing options. Maxpay, a global payment service provider, announces the expansion of its acquiring network for business merchants, thanks to a new agreement with Paysafe Group (Paysafe). Pay...

LLR Partners Backs Payments Industry Leader Kevin Jones to Form Celero Commerce

Kristy DelMuto from LLR Partners
03 Dec 2018
LLR’s investment in Celero will be used to fund organic growth and strategic M&A which initially includes a strategic investment in UMS Banking Nashville, TN – LLR Partners today announced the formation of Celero Commerce (“Celero”) a vertically-focused, integrated commerce solutions provide...

CloudTrade migrates to Microsoft Azure

Nick Jones from CloudTrade
07 Nov 2018
- CloudTrade launches public cloud services to meet global demand, following successful global expansion of its unique e-invoicing, e-order and complex data capture services CloudTrade, the leading provider of e-invoicing, e-order and complex data capture services, today announced that it wi...

Infinity Contact Centre Solutions (CSS) launches New Pay-as-you-go Pricing Model

Tina Stanley from TSA PR
13 Sep 2018
Infinity CCS, today announces their new pay-as-you-go pricing model for contact centres that removes the need to pay a traditional upfront software licence fee. Geoff Land, Managing Director of Infinity CCS, says; “Today’s organisations are under great pressure to deliver the best customer exp...

An interview with ECOMMPAY - the payment provider who are staying ahead of the curve...

Rachel King from KAE
06 Sep 2018
KAE recently interviewed Paul Marcantonio, Head of UK and Western Europe at ECOMMPAY, a dynamic payment solution provider. ECOMMPAY have established a reputation for delivering versatile, reliable services in the payments ecosystem, through prioritisation of user experience via streamlined, cu...

Secure Trading partner with Chippin to transform online payments

Nick from Jones
24 May 2018
- Enabling merchants across the globe to benefit from Chippin’s new and innovative group payment facility Chippin, the pioneering new provider of group payment solutions, today announced a partnership with online payment experts, Secure Trading. Merchants who currently use Secure Trading’s pay...

The ai Corporation launches EazyFuel – a next gen fuel card solution

Nick Jones from The ai Corporation
08 Mar 2018
- Utilising ai’s artificial intelligence and machine-learning expertise to revolutionise fuel payments The ai Corporation (ai), an FCA approved expert in payments, fraud and risk management, today announced the launch of its next generation fuel card solution, EazyFuel. ai’s EazyFu...

BillPro takes the lead on revolutionising industry onboarding...and wins Award for Best Onboarding Solution (MPE 2018)

Sarah Leaman from BillPro
22 Feb 2018
// BILLPRO WINS AWARD FOR BEST ONBOARDING SOLUTION Taking the lead on revolutionising industry onboarding Berlin (22 February 2018): BillPro’s Online Submission Centre has been declared the “Best Onboarding Solution” at the prestigious 2018 Merchant Payment Ecosystem Awards. Judged by ind...

ParentPay acquires WIS, the leading Dutch supplier of communication software and payment services for schools

ParentPay from Farrer Kane
12 Feb 2018
February 2018: ParentPay Limited, Europe’s leading provider of school payment and parental engagement services, has acquired WIS, the market leading software provider for school payment collection and parent communication in the Netherlands. Founded in 2003, WIS has grown to become the lea...

SDK.finance supercedes Visa in terms of API endpoints

Nadia Nolan from SDK.finance
12 Feb 2018
SDK.finance, the European Core Payment Platform, supersedes Visa and other major players in terms of API endpoints. Striving to deliver the best-in-class back-end platform, SDK.finance beats the giants of the payment-processing industry and other major FinTech players according to research con...

The ai Corporation welcomes new executives as business grows by 50%

Nick Jones from The ai Corporation
06 Feb 2018
The ai Corporation expand further with the appointment of Payment Experts Robin Whitehead, David Gilhespy and Natasha Westover to senior management team - ai welcomes new executives as business grows by 50%, providing end to end payment, fraud and risk management solutions to more than ...

COMO Global and Flit Technologies unveil a payments solution for the Urban Mobility market

Vaughan Owen from COMO Global
01 Feb 2018
Wednesday 31th January 2018 – Flit Technologies, an urban mobility innovator and COMO Global S.A, the intelligent payments solution provider, have announced the launch of a new company called COMO Urban Mobility which provides a payment solution designed especially for the urban mobility industry...

Worldpay and COMO form a strategic partnership to simplify payments for merchants

Vaughan Owen from COMO Global
12 Jan 2018
December 2017 – Worldpay, a leader in global payments and COMO Global S.A, an intelligent payments solution provider, have announced a new strategic partnership. Worldpay provides an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services to around 400,000 customers globally, enabling the...

Spreading Christmas cheer with Ezidebit

niki from Waldecomms
19 Dec 2017
Spreading Christmas cheer with Ezidebit The leading Australian payments company is offering $10,000 for charity December 19, 2017 Leading Australian payments provider Ezidebit, has got its Santa hat on and is giving clients the chance to win $10,000 to donate to a charity of their choice...

CloudTrade launches Cloud Capture to manage the long-tail

Nick Jones from CloudTrade
13 Dec 2017
- E-invoicing and e-document solution provider adds OCR ability with Mitie plug-in CloudTrade, the leading provider of cloud based e-invoicing and e-document processing services, today announced the launch of its Cloud Capture service that will enable customers and their suppliers to process 1...

The ai Corporation moves to Microsoft Azure to tackle global fraud

Nick Jones from The ai Corporation
12 Dec 2017
- ai launches public cloud services to meet global demand, following successful global expansion The ai Corporation (ai), an FCA approved expert in payments and risk management, today announced that it will be launching a public cloud-based service to meet global demand for its unique fraud a...

After Kalypton Gains $2.6m Investment, U.S. Federal Reserve Awards Top Vendor Status

Trudy Darwin from Trudy Darwin Consulting
21 Nov 2017
Financial services and global real-time payments and settlements company Kalypton has profited from a £2m ($2.6m) investment by reaching the pinnacle of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Taskforce top vendors list. This investment has been received from a variety of private investors – e...

BillPro's PAN European Expansion

Sarah Leaman from BillPro
21 Nov 2017
// BILLPRO’S PAN EUROPEAN EXPANSION Payment Institution BillPro extends licence to all countries in EU and EEA Amsterdam (20 November 2017): Payment Institution BillPro has recently extended their licence to include all countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA)...

The ai Corporation acquires SmartCentric to create a global cloud based omni-channel (B2C and B2B) payment processing, risk management and data analytics platform

Sam Duke from The ai Corporation
31 Oct 2017
• The ai Corporation offers a unique managed service offering covering technology, outsourced fraud management and detailed data analytics. • ai now covers over 15 million B2B active cards over 45 countries, in over 200,000 sites and 90+ product types. The ai Corporation (ai) has acquired ...

Tipalti Adds Major Innovations to Future-Proof Accounts Payable

Milton Deya from Cutler PR
07 Jun 2017
San Mateo, CA —June 6, 2017 — Tipalti, the leader in supplier payments automation, today unveiled a series of new capabilities enabling forward-thinking CFOs to transform their finance organization from an operational function to a strategic enabler of global growth, while transitioning AP from a...

Verifi & MegaCharge Forge Strategic Partnership to Combat Global Chargeback Challenges

Verifi from Verifi
17 Jun 0007
Immediate Efficiency Improvement and Reduction In Chargebacks Realised London – June 7, 2017 – Verifi a leading provider of payment and risk management solutions for card-not-present (CNP) merchants, today announced that payments processor, MegaCharge has partnered with Verifi to combat fraud...

AEVI announces Nelson Holzner as AEVI CEO

AEVI from AEVI
17 May 0005
Paderborn, 02/05/17 - Today AEVI announced the appointment of Nelson Holzner as AEVI chief executive officer (CEO) as of May 1, 2017. In his new role, Nelson will leverage his vast knowledge of the payments and start-up landscape to grow AEVI and take the company to the next level. Holzner joi...