Partnerships / Acquisitions

Ingenico Makes Connected Commerce NFC Acquisition
April 12, 2016

Connected commerce continues to get … well … connected. Ingenico announced yesterday (April 11) that it has acquired payments startup Think&Go, a maker of NFC payment solutions. Think&Go is a provider of NFC technology that enables any digital display to interact with connected objects, such as...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Partnerships And Pair-Ups Edition: Amazon, Costco And Marketplace Lenders
April 11, 2016

As the second week of April swings into full gear, Americans will divide into exactly three groups. The first group did their taxes some time ago and view this particular run of days as nothing new or special. The second group just spent their entire...

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TransFirst, ITelagen Secure New Alliance
March 30, 2016

TransFirst, a transaction processing services and payment technologies, and ITelagen, which offers IT and electronic health records support, said on Tuesday (March 29) that they have formed a strategic alliance. The two firms said in a press release that TransFirst will offer up its payment...

May The Force (Multiplier) Be With You
March 29, 2016

There are many ways to describe a partnership — shared values, common focus, mutual respect. Dan Charron, First Data’s EVP of global solutions, tells PYMNTS that his company’s recently announced partnership with First Tennessee is that and more. Like a "force multiplier” that strengthens the...

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Rakuten’s Ebates Brings Shopular On Board
March 25, 2016

In the world of mobile commerce, it’s not just about what you can do but who you know. Down the line, the smallest partnership can pay big dividends, and Ebates is banking on just that. Ebates, the Rakuten subsidiary focused on cash-back shopping, announced Thursday (March...

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Palantir, Credit Suisse Link To Mitigate ‘Rogue Bankers’
March 24, 2016

Credit Suisse has linked up with Palantir Technologies in a joint effort to, as Bloomberg puts it, “catch rogue employees” before they can move ahead to commit (financial) mayhem. The joint venture, split down the middle in terms of ownership, is named Signac and took final...

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Intuit Finally Offloads Quicken
March 07, 2016

Intuit has managed to find a buyer for its Quicken unit, the company said on Friday (March 4). The Wall Street Journal reported that Intuit will sell the segment to a private equity firm, HIG Capital, in a process that took six months after the...

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ACI Worldwide Sells Community FinServ Biz To Fiserv
March 07, 2016

ACI Worldwide is exiting the community bank and credit union market with the completion of the sale of its Community Financial Services (CFS) business to Fiserv. The sale of the platform to Fiserv enables the FinTech solutions provider to extend additional digital banking and payments solutions to financial...

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clearXchange Network Lands First Credit Union
February 26, 2016

Early Warning’s P2P payments network clearXchange has partnered with First Tech Federal Credit Union to support its 420,000-member network. The Mountain View-based credit union, which has $8.6 billion in assets, has now become the first credit union to partner with the payments network, which, until now, just had banks...