In the old days, Singapore’s retail market was dominated by big corporate merchants with storefronts, whose size, numbers and name-brand recognition made it feasible to onboard them manually. The country has around 100,000 such traditional retailers. But it’s not the old days anymore. Today’s merchants...
Smartwatches are getting smarter. Instead of linking to the user’s phone to power GPS, fitness tracking, music and payments, this one houses it all in the wearable itself so that runners and athletes can take the device on the go and leave the bulky phone...
There’s no denying that cryptocurrencies have changed the conversation in payments and banking, for better or for worse. If you ask nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke, it’s decidedly for the worse. “Everybody from young kids to my parents are talking about investing in cryptos,” Cooke said....
Over the past few years, demand has increased for system integrators, ERP (enterprise resource planning) resellers, procure-to-pay implementers, business process outsourcing companies and banks to work together as their clients strive to enable complex capabilities like cross-border payments and invoice automation. Startup Tipalti, which deals...
Nobody likes chargebacks: They’re costly and time-consuming to resolve and can lose merchants a lot of money. But not everybody takes them as personally as Chargehound CTO Dmitri Cherniak once did. The frustration Cherniak experienced while helping run a crowdfunding platform is what drove him...
In 2017, startup Emailage locked down its presence in Europe by working to close accounts with large banks and institutions across the European and Middle Eastern regions. Partnerships with brands like Equifax, Experian and LexisNexis helped power that growth, as Emailage leveraged these companies’ capabilities...
Whether bank customers are consumers or businesses, chances are good that they do at least some of their banking online. This month, startup nanopay is announcing a partnership with Canadian nonprofit interbank network Interac to help businesses manage the complexity of working across borders. The...
San Mateo startup Tipalti, a firm that automates accounts payable and payments cash flow, has partnered on two recent global payment method studies. Those studies, according to Rob Israch, Tipalti CMO, have unearthed some encouraging and surprising findings for the company’s mission. The first, conducted...
Today, startups FitPay and NXT-ID announced a partnership with Visa that will grow their joint platform’s international footprint in support of their recently-released payments product, Garmin Pay. Michael Orlando, NXT-ID COO and FitPay co-founder, president and CEO, said the Visa partnership is a significant move in...
