April 25, 2024
Booking.com Forms Virtual Card Partnership With WEX
Global commerce platform WEX has launched a virtual card partnership with Booking.com. The new arrangement, announced in a news release Thursday (April 25), expands on the two companies’ 11-year-old partnership, with WEX becoming Booking.com’s...
April 25, 2024
Financial Infrastructure Platform QI Tech Achieves Unicorn Status
Brazilian FinTech QI Tech has achieved unicorn status after extending its Series B round. With this extension, the firm raised additional equity with current investor General Atlantic and Across Capital,...
April 25, 2024
Visa Teams With AWS to Streamline Cross-Border Payments
Visa says it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). “Visa’s presence in the APN will help enable its partners and clients, including cloud-native fintechs, to access and integrate select...
April 25, 2024
Real-Time Payments Help Cure Small Business Healthcare Provider Finances
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the healthcare provider segment now use real-time payments more widely than other payment rails. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that in the last year, 83% of...
April 25, 2024
Thredd CEO: Compliance Will Define Future of Payments
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. That quote, by management consultant Peter F. Drucker, holds more true today than ever before — particularly given...
April 25, 2024
Connected Consumer Data Provides Solid Growth Strategy for Merchants
Businesses that use data strategically can unlock opportunities, fuel growth and reduce risk, Jeff Pomeroy, SVP and head of Omnicommerce at Carat from Fiserv, writes in the new PYMNTS eBook,...
April 25, 2024
Corporates Shift Mindset Back to Growth
Inflation, inflation and inflation. The drum beat has defined the past year in the financial services business and reached a crescendo in the first quarter. But, according to payments orchestration solution provider Spreedly, which sees $50 billion...
April 24, 2024
Stripe Co-Founders Say They’re Building ‘Software-Defined Financial Services’
Today’s customers of the FinTech industry are no longer asking just for ways to accept online payments; they’re asking for “software-defined financial services.” So said Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison Wednesday (April 24) during...
April 24, 2024
Tech-Enabled Solutions Put the Brakes on Returns Fraud
An integral aspect of the retail cycle, returns have surged in recent years with the growth of online channels. However, accompanying this increase in returns is a concerning trend: the...
