Small business-focused platform Affiniti launched a financing agreement with Column bank, according to a Monday (March 9) press release. The agreement will see Column provide financing to boost the growth of Affini’s small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, per the release. The partnership establishes funding...
Oura Health is acquiring Finland-based startup Doublepoint Technologies as the smart ring maker moves to add gesture and voice interactions to future versions of its wearable devices, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (March 5). The deal brings gesture-recognition technology developed by Doublepoint into Oura’s product roadmap,...
Payments/commerce technology Shift4 says it has completed its acquisition of Worldline’s North American subsidiaries. By purchasing Worldline’s Bambora North America business, Shift4 adds more than 140,000 merchants to its platform, the company said in a Monday (March 2) news release. “This deal brings a substantial...
Visa completed its acquisition of Argentina-based companies Prisma and Newpay, eight days after announcing that it planned to do so. The company said Feb. 19 that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the firms and expected the transaction to close during the current quarter, subject to closing conditions. Visa...
InComm Payments and SKUx announced Friday morning (Feb. 27) a strategic partnership to improve how digital payments are distributed for humanitarian aid and other applications for emerging markets. The announcement lands as disaster recovery funding faces tighter scrutiny, shifting more responsibility to state and local...
The Brink’s Company plans to acquire NCR Atleos in a cash and stock transaction valued at $6.6 billion, creating a “leading financial technology infrastructure company,” the firms said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) press release. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement on the acquisition, and they expect the transactions...
Paypal has formed a partnership with Rainforest, an embedded payment provider focused on software platforms. The collaboration will see the companies launch an embedded payment integration to help software platforms move more processing volume away from offline methods of payments such as cash and checks, Rainforest announced Wednesday (Feb....
Google has teamed with marketing automation platform Klaviyo to help brands offer “AI-driven” customer experiences. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Feb. 24), aims to combine Google’s expertise in search, advertising, artificial intelligence (AI) and messaging with Klaviyo’s real-time customer data and decisioning. The goal, the companies said in a news release,...
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is offering tokenized securities on its Binance Alpha platform, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24) announcement. The company joined forces with Ondo, a blockchain-based platform focused on tokenizing real-world assets, like securities and exchange-traded funds, the announcement said. “This update provides a...