The credit card arm of General Electric, Synchrony Financial, brought in $2.87 billion in its initial public offering. Synchrony priced 125m shares up for grabs at $23, the bottom pricing range (the top of the range was $26). At that price, Synchrony’s total valuation...
A $10 billion annual revenue for an industry is not too shabby, nor is a 12 percent revenue increase from the year before. With a recent study showing that supply chain management revenue is on track to hit its highest levels since 2011, it’s clear...
Prepaid products have struggled to find their footing in many markets, in spite of the rapid growth reported in the segment. One reason is a “one size fits all” approach to prepaid program development. i2c General Manager Scott Salmon tells PYMNTS how data can help...
Meritus Payments Solutions announced yesterday that it launched Update XP, its new account updater solution, according to a company release. In partnership with its global payment platform Payment XP, major credit card companies can electronically exchange up-to-date card account information.
Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing and security sectors leading the way.
According to recent research from Bacs Payment Schemes, late payment debt for UK businesses has reached £46.1 billion. In effect, approximately one quarter of UK businesses are paying their suppliers late because they themselves are still waiting for payment. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Reports of Twitter’s death last quarter—when a slow down in the monthly acquisition of new users slowed some, prompted many Twitter watchers to declare the beginning of the end—may have been somewhat exaggerated. This morning, Twitter is riding high with elevated stock prices after the...
During yesterday’s second-quarter earnings call with analysts, American Express Co.’s chief operating officer, Jeffrey Campbell, appeared to want to head off discussion of the Department of Justice’s antitrust trial against the company that began in Brooklyn on July 7. And why not, Amex has a...
When two unrelated consumer services—within a day—both made B2B corporate payment moves, it reflected more than B2B payment momentum. Both Uber and Airbnb recently announced new versions of their mobile apps that are geared toward helping organizations book and expense business trips. But what exactly...
