Wearables aren’t just smartwatches anymore. They’re keychains, rings, wristbands, coins — anything that can accommodate a chip. Furthermore, it’s no longer enough just to provide fitness and health tracking; more and more, payments enablement is becoming a staple of a useful wearable. It’s upon these...
For startups, it’s never easy explaining when they’re doing something the same yet different. The payments industry already has switches, gateways and hubs to connect the one to many, the many to one and the many to many — so, what makes Modo any different?...
The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character limit, a tweet is sheer elegance in its simplicity — while a payments discrepancy is anything but. What if the succinct and straightforward...
The first quarter can be even more chaotic than the holidays for some companies — or, at least, it brings its own post-holiday flavor of chaos. Startup Emailage, which leverages customers’ email addresses to identify and prevent eCommerce fraud, had a solid game plan going...
This month, startup Tipalti is celebrating a PO-matching match made in heaven as it integrates with leading cloud ERP provider NetSuite. PO (purchase order) matching is one of two new capabilities Tipalti has rolled out within recent months, the other being multi-entity functionality. Tipalti CMO...
Being a startup means constant chaos. Hopefully controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Yet it’s an exciting time in any company’s lifecycle, and entrepreneurs seem to enjoy the ride, somehow thriving on the whirlwind of activity. “All my startup friends have been telling me to expect...
A digital fiat currency and government-issued mobile money platform could transform the Sub-Saharan African economy, according to nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke, who recently visited East Africa to explore opportunities in the region and has returned with some key insights. First and foremost, he said, banking in...
FitPay, the startup technology platform that adds contactless payment capabilities to wearable and IoT devices, has announced a partnership with Discover. Co-founders Michael Orlando and Chris Orlando told PYMNTS that adding this third major payment network to the FitPay platform will allow device partners and...
Jewel Paymentech has forged a capital alliance with Japan’s largest payment processor, GMO Japan, which will be leading the startup’s Series A+ funding round, along with existing backer Tuas Capital Partners. The support will enable the Singaporean startup to make its entry into the highly...