acquisitions

Bird Buys eScooter Competitor Circ
Bird Buys eScooter Competitor Circ
January 27, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Creating a combined company that will lead to an addition of over 300 employees to its European operations, California-based Bird has purchased shared eScooter company...

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WEX Expands B2B Footprint With eNett, Optal Buys
WEX Expands B2B Footprint With eNett, Optal Buys
January 24, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

FinTech payments firm WEX is closing a deal to acquire business-to-business (B2B) travel payments startup eNett and B2B optimization company Optal, WEX announced on Friday...

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RS2 To Acquire Germany’s Kalicom Digital Payments System
RS2 To Acquire Germany’s Kalicom Digital Payments System
January 22, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Global payments provider RS2 announced its acquisition of Kalicom Liebers Zahlungssysteme KG on Wednesday (Jan. 22), which will be a boost for its goals in...

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New Year, New Mergers Sizzle For Payments Companies
New Year, New Mergers Sizzle For Payments Companies
January 17, 2020  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

It’s too early into the new year to definitively call a trend. But then again, only two weeks into 2020, mergers and deal-making in payments,...

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This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big Doings ‘Bout SMB Payments
This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big...
January 17, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there was no shortage...

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Global Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend
Global Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend
January 16, 2020  |  Acquiring

New day, new multi-billion-dollar deal within the payments space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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SAP Concur Shutters Travel Search Site Hipmunk
SAP Concur Shutters Travel Search Site Hipmunk
January 15, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Less than three years after acquiring travel search startup Hipmunk, SAP Concur has announced that it will shutter both the consumer- and corporate-facing operations of the...

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With Pointy Deal, Google Digs Deeper Into Brick-And-Mortar Retail
With Pointy Deal, Google Digs Deeper Into Brick-And-Mortar Retail
January 14, 2020  |  Google

Listen closely to recent news — including news coming out of the ongoing National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City — and...

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Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
January 14, 2020  |  VISA

Visa is buying Plaid — the startup that develops APIs for financial services — for $5.3 billion. By helping to bridge the gap between apps...

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