October 26, 2022
Worldline Acquires SoftPos to Tap Into Contactless Payment Demand

French payments services firm Worldline has purchased a 55% stake in SoftPos, a Polish FinTech, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 26). Founded in 2019, Warsaw-based SoftPos offers technology that “converts...

October 26, 2022
Google Will Pay YouTube Creators in Bid to Crash TikTok’s...

Calling it “a big deal” for creators, Google parent Alphabet said Tuesday it will pay top creative talent to post videos on its new YouTube Shorts platform as it aims...

October 25, 2022
Visa Direct Transactions Surge 36% as Real Time Money Movement...

Three years into the pandemic, and Visa’s Tap to Pay continues its steady march, with real-time payments and faster payouts — through Visa Direct — also proving popular on an...

October 25, 2022
Russia’s Tech Brain Drain Provides Eastern European Startups Opportunity For...

While Western European countries have long dominated the region’s venture capital (VC) landscape, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is fast emerging as a hotbed of investment opportunity, with several new...

October 25, 2022
Veem Rolls Out Real-Time Payment Tool for SMBs

Veem has launched a real-time payment tool for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in more than 100 countries. The service is for businesses with domestic and cross-border payments, according to...

October 25, 2022
Modernizing the Smokestack Economy With BNPL and Industrial Marketplaces

The process of getting rid of paper invoices and checks may not be new, but the drive to solve this old problem is generating some new thinking — especially when...

October 25, 2022
Zip Takes BNPL Offline With Zip Card Debut

With the holiday shopping season approaching, buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Zip has debuted the Zip Card, its latest installment payment offering. Issued by WebBank, the card extends Zip’s...

October 25, 2022
Kanye-Adidas Split Shows Why Brands See Value in Self-Made Creators

As Adidas officially joins Gap and other businesses and brands in severing ties with the controversial musician turned fashion entrepreneur Kanye West, one unexpected winner is emerging from the ashes...

October 25, 2022
Legacy Players and Digital Disruptors Will Join Forces to Reshape...

To a large extent the future of payments will be built on foundations laid in the past, but greatly enhanced by digital innovations that are creating entirely new use cases...