The world seems to spin faster at the holidays. Weeks and hours whirl away, and there always seems to be something going on. This time of year has been no different for these seven startups, all of which have launched new products and features, fielded...
Jewel Paymentech is helping banks get on board with faster onboarding for merchants. The startup supports financial institutions across the Asian Pacific region as these banks and other traditional players scramble to keep up with competition from newer, nimbler FinTech companies. This month, Jewel is...
What do you give the person who has everything? It’s an age-old question — or one that is at least as old as the Hallmark era — which has made gifting opportunities out of not only birthdays but also Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents’ Day, Valentine’s Day and...
This month, Amaryllis, a tech startup building modular solutions for payment facilitators and merchant acquirers, has closed a significant round of financing, made two strategic hires, connected directly with industry professionals to answer questions and comments on the startup’s first CEO chat and made an...
As its name suggests, Emailage, an Arizona-based identity verification startup, uses customers’ email addresses to deliver risk scores to financial institutions (FIs) and online merchants. The service represents the company’s core competency. However, email addresses as verification tools are no longer Emailage’s only specialty. Its...
If you thought cross-border payments were all about payments, think again. Rob Israch, CMO of the San Mateo startup Tipalti, said organizations that treat this complex and multi-faceted process as a simple international remittance miss the point. To better serve customers with cross-border needs — and...
Kintsugi: the art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer containing gold, silver or platinum dust, taking something fragmented and making it whole, smooth and beautiful. That’s what Toronto startup nanopay wants to do with instant payments, particularly cross-border transactions. There are many different platforms for...
Consumers want payments to fit their lifestyles. That’s the premise on which startups NXT-ID and FitPay have built their financial services platform, and a premise that has been reinforced for Michael Orlando, NXT-ID COO and FitPay co-founder, president and CEO. Just three years ago, the...
It’s been an exciting month for startups. One launched a new fraud module after a successful beta phase; another officially integrated with international payment rails; a third was white-labeled by one of the top five merchant acquirers in the world (and also got a new...