John Adams

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.

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IT work is getting more complex, and that's delaying revenue, according to Diebold Nixdorf.

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