The next time you buy kitchenware from Ikea, you might be doing so at Best Buy. The Swedish furniture seller is looking into using space inside other retailers’ locations to expand its customer base in “mature” markets in the United States and Europe, the Financial...
Aiwyn has acquired QuickFee’s U.S. payments business, including QuickFee Pay Now and QuickFee Connect, to add new capabilities to Aiwyn’s payments and collection platform for accounting firms. The company’s partnership with QuickFee will enable Aiwyn to provide customers with access to QuickFee’s Pay Later finance offering, and QuickFee customers...
Digital bank and FinTech firm Green Dot has added it Stripe to its partnership network. The collaboration, announced Monday (Sept. 8), will see Stripe Treasury employ Green Dot’s embedded finance platform Arc to let users add cash to their accounts at any of Green Dot’s more than 90,000 money processing locations...
Foot Locker is now officially a part of Dick’s Sporting Goods. Dick’s announced Monday (Sept. 8) that it had concluded its $2.4 billion acquisition of the footwear and sporting goods chain. This purchase gives Dick’s a greater piece of the sneaker market, as it now...
PNC Bank is looking westward with its acquisition of Colorado-based lender FirstBank. The $4.1 billion deal will make Colorado one of PNC’s top markers in the country, more than tripling its branch network there, according to a Monday (Sept. 8) press release. PNC will become Denver’s top...
Payments and FinTech company Fiserv has acquired CardFree and will integrate that company’s order, payment and loyalty solutions for enterprise merchants. The addition of CardFree’s solutions to Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale solution for small businesses and its Commerce Hub ecosystem will enhance Clover’s ability to support...
Synctera and LoanPro have partnered to provide a platform that helps companies launch banking and credit card products and tailor the experience to their customers’ needs. The collaboration brings together Synctera’s banking and payments platform and LoanPro’s lending and credit platform, Synctera Chief Product and...
College-focused social app Fizz is reportedly entering the world of grocery delivery. As TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 3), it’s part of a new partnership with delivery service Gopuff that lets students order things like snacks to groceries within the Fizz app in as quickly as...
Airwallex acquired OpenPay to bring the latter’s billing and analytics capabilities to its financial platform. The deal is designed to bolster the platform, strengthening Airwallex’s position against other players like Stripe Billing and Recurly, while helping Airwallex customers unlock and automate revenue growth, according to...