Payments

Newer partners like the Isreali fintech First are building connections to help stores enroll.

The arrangement, which focuses on merchant services, comes about six months after Global Payments secured a similar partnership with Amazon Web Services on the issuer side of its business.

Merchants are making a miscalculation on data management, says FreedomPay's Chris Kronenthal.

A showdown between megabanks such as JPMorgan Chase and the likes of Apple and PayPal could be the prelude to a broader fight.

The ability to manage both domestic and international invoices through the same AP automation and workflow creates enormous operational advantages for finance teams and the line of business, says MineralTree's Nicolette Medina.

JoomPay has launched a new P2P service for money transfers across Europe, operating as a socially focused spinoff of the Joom e-commerce marketplace.

Balance, an API-based checkout solution designed for B2B e-commerce, has raised $5.5 million to launch operations with backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Stripe, Affirm and PayPal cofounder Max Levchin.

Cross-border payments technology provider Routefusion plans to expand its embedded software services and global partnerships after a recent funding round.

Michael Moeser, Senior Analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Atif Siddiqi, founder and CEO of Branch, about the transformation going on with payroll payments.

Call centers have long had issues around the security of accepting card payments verbally; companies like Semafone and DataDivider are working to keep those centers PCI-compliant as the pandemic compounds the problem.