July 12, 2012
Money Transfer Startup Raises $3M To Disrupt Cross-Border Payments
The Currency Cloud raised $3 million to support development of its cloud-based currency conversion and international payments platform for B2B transfers, TechCrunch reports. Today’s $3 million raise will be added...
July 12, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: July 11-12
Starbucks Adds PayPal to Mobile App on Android, Grows to UK and Canada JCB Opens Its First South American Subsidiary in Brazil Amazon actually testing smartphone in Asia now: Platform...
July 10, 2012
TSYS Plans B2B Boost Through Check Conversion
Those keeping a close eye on the payments industry over the past several months have seen tons of new innovation transform the space. But just because the technology doesn’t mean...
May 17, 2012
Catalyst Course: Blast Off or Bust!
How to ignite a platform, and avoid nosediving back to earth, is the subject of David Evans’s fourth lecture for the Catalyst Course. Drawing on the success of YouTube, the...
May 01, 2012
Google and PayPal portend antitrust harms flowing from Project Oscar
Google and PayPal have warned the European Commission on competition problems posed by a mobile payments joint venture, reports the Financial Times. The joint venture, dubbed Project Oscar, is between...
April 30, 2012
Google, PayPal Blow The Whistle On U.K. Joint Venture
Google and PayPal are among several companies warning European regulators about the consequences of approving the business plan of a joint venture between a trio of Euro-based telecom giants. Vodafone,...
April 23, 2012
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
April 19, 2012
Friday Five: Mobibucks’ Ziad Alshobaki
Most mobile payment solutions require the presence of an actual phone — but not so with Mobibucks, a California-based startup with $10 million in investor backing. Managing Director Ziad Alshobaki...
April 02, 2012
Guest Commentary
PYMNTS.com features diverse content from a variety of different contributors. • Time To Deal With All These Deals (Richard Postrel, CEO and Founder of Swift Exchange) •...
Business cards offer numerous benefits to small businesses over other financing, including easier qualification, significantly higher credit limits, and perks such as cash back, travel and mileage-earning rewards. The latest “B2B and Digital Payments Tracker®” explores why 63% of small business owners using cards as their primary startup funding attribute their success to this method of financing.
