Cross-border Payments

Cross-border Payments
Today In Payments Around The World: Ebanx Considers LatAm Acquisitions; Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Welcomes...
May 25, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Ebanx is said to be eyeing acquisitions in Latin America, and blank-check companies can now trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Today In Payments Around The World: Nayax Lands $142 Million In IPO; Square Rolls Out...
May 21, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Nayax has raised approximately $142 million in an initial public offering (IPO), while Square has launched in Ireland. Plus, Japanese startup Secai Marche has hooked roughly $1.5 million in venture funding from Rakuten Capital and Beyond Next...

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JPMorgan’s Onyx Opens Infrastructure To Disrupt Cross-Border Payments
May 21, 2021

For all the innovation that domestic payments infrastructure has witnessed in recent years, cross-border transactions largely remain, in a word, inefficient. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

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Payments Company Square Launches In Ireland
May 20, 2021

San Francisco-based Square said that its services are now available in Ireland, its first country in the Eurozone. The company said in a press release that its software, payments and hardware products will work for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as big companies....

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Tencent Ups Spending To Compete With Alibaba
May 20, 2021

China’s Tencent Holdings said on Thursday (May 20) that it wants to put a greater portion of this year’s incremental profits  into sectors that include games, short-form video and cloud services. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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JetBlue To Air NBA Games On International Flights Through Viasat
May 20, 2021

Communications company Viasat has struck a multi-year deal with the National Basketball Association to deliver live NBA games to JetBlue passengers on the airline’s international flights, according to a Thursday (May 20) press release. The service will not be available on domestic U.S. flights or...

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Hotel Platform Oyo, Hit By India’s COVID-19 Surge, Seeks $600 Million
May 20, 2021

The current surge in COVID-19 cases in India is hitting SoftBank-backed Oyo Hotels hard, so the startup is searching for cash. The hotel platform wants to raise $600 million in debt to beef up its bottom line, Bloomberg reported. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Today In Payments Around The World: JD Logistics Eyes Going Public; Alibaba Consortium Buys Stake...
May 18, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, JD Logistics is reportedly getting ready for an initial public offering (IPO), while a consortium led by Alibaba and Baring Private Equity Asia has bought a stake in The CrownX. Plus, Turkey has introduced a COVID-19 inoculation...

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COVID Variants Dampen UK Business Reopenings
May 18, 2021

Almost 1 million people went back to work in the U.K. even as new COVID-19 variants continue to circle, according to the Financial Times (FT) on Monday (May 17). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...