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...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is picking up, Goldman Sachs’ Christina Minnis, global head of credit and asset finance and head of global acquisition finance within the Capital Solutions Group, said Tuesday (Sept. 2). Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Minnis said that some companies are taking advantage...
Money movement platform Thunes has expanded its partnership with digital asset infrastructure company Ripple. This latest collaboration, announced Tuesday (Sept. 2) combines Thunes’ network with Ripple’s blockchain-powered payments solutions to allow Ripple’s enterprise customers to more easily withdraw funds in new currencies and countries to enhance their global payment capabilities....
U.K.-based FinTech firms are ramping up plans to acquire American banks to boost lending abilities. As the Financial Times noted Monday (Sept. 2) in a report on this trend, this is happening as U.S. financial regulators are showing a new openness to mergers under President...
Liberis and Elavon partnered to deliver a funding solution for small businesses across the United States. The new Quick Capital solution is powered by Liberis’ embedded finance platform and Elavon’s merchant portal for payment processing solutions and services, the companies said in a Tuesday (Aug....
Sycamore Partners said Thursday (Aug. 28) that it completed its acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance and that the businesses that made up WBA are now operating as standalone companies under private ownership. Those companies include Walgreens, The Boots Group, Shields Health Solutions, CareCentrix and VillageMD,...
Cross River Bank and Sightline Payments are collaborating on a new gaming industry payment solution. Sightline Debit, which the companies called a “first-of-its-kind” offering in their announcement Tuesday (Aug. 26), is designed to streamline both spending and wagering. “This not only lowers payment costs for...
Monetization platform Zuora is teaming with human resources/finance platform Workday. This collaboration combines Zuora’s order-to-cash automation with Workday Financial Management to give business to consumer (B2C) companies a simpler way to handle complex billing and revenue streams from things like subscriptions or usage-based pricing, the companies said in...