John Adams

The card network would help offset the cost of adopting digital payment technology in exchange for no longer accepting cash payments.

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Information sharing is about to get much different in Europe, giving bank alternatives such as Klarna more to work with as they compete against the financial services establishment.

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Much like the consumer retail acquisition market, business payment companies are expanding the appeal of transaction automation by tying it to international growth and value-added merchant services.

Stripe will collaborate with WeChat and Alipay to make it easier for merchants around the world to accept payments from Chinese consumers.

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The company contends a lot of current payments technology is focused on horizontal companies that are designed to easily enable payments, and are operating agnostic to the type of business that requires a payments gateway,

First Data has entered into several partnerships and made acquisitions as it attempts to diversify its product line to adjust to the growth of digital payments.