Merchant Payments news and trends

Lloyds Offers New Merchant Tools Via Expanded FreedomPay Partnership
Partnerships // October 11, 2023

Lloyds Bank said it has expanded its partnership with consumer-centric commerce platform FreedomPay. The British banking giant announced Wednesday (Oct. 11) that merchants using its Bank Cardnet now have access to FreedomPay’s payment processing capabilities.  “The fully integrated, patented technology offers Lloyds Bank Cardnet customers the flexibility...

Banc of California Gets Into Merchant Acquiring With Global Payroll Gateway Buy
Acquisitions // September 15, 2022

Banc of California has bought the payments platform and tech of Global Payroll Gateway and its subsidiary Deepstack, giving it a one-stop shop solution for payments for merchants to get funds faster and access more visibility, a press release said. Deepstack is a differentiated software-led...

J.P. Morgan: How Payments Drive Customer Loyalty Amid A Digitization Push
Digital Payments // May 14, 2020

Amid a sudden and dramatic shift in consumer shopping behavior, merchants across all industries have been forced to react quickly. The pandemic required digitization for many businesses to keep revenue flowing, but simply setting up shop online is no longer enough to keep customers happy....

Retail’s 2020 Digital-First Payments Roadmap
Payments Innovation // January 09, 2020

Consumers have always influenced how payment methods evolve – stretching back centuries to the barter system, and extending, now, into the digital age. And as payments are done in bits and bytes, across all manner of use cases, consumers prize convenience and personalization. For merchants,...

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J.P. Morgan: How Payments Drive Customer Loyalty Amid A Digitization Push

May 14, 2020
Amid a sudden and dramatic shift in consumer shopping behavior, merchants across all industries have been forced to react quickly. The pandemic required digitization for many businesses to keep revenue flowing, but simply setting up shop online is no longer enough to keep customers happy. Indeed, according to Laura Miller, president of J.P. Morgan Merchant […]

Retail’s 2020 Digital-First Payments Roadmap

January 09, 2020
Consumers have always influenced how payment methods evolve – stretching back centuries to the barter system, and extending, now, into the digital age. And as payments are done in bits...

Quick Reads
FinTech KindCard Set to Purchase Banking Platform OpenTransact

January 02, 2024
Payments FinTech KindCard says it plans to purchase banking platform OpenTransact. The company has signed a letter of intent connected to its potential acquisition of OpenTransact, Kindcard announced in a Tuesday (Jan. 2) news release. The release noted that KindCard provides alternative “closed-loop” payments solutions to businesses via its subsidiary Deb. It described OpenTransact as […]

Lloyds Offers New Merchant Tools Via Expanded FreedomPay Partnership

October 11, 2023
Lloyds Bank said it has expanded its partnership with consumer-centric commerce platform FreedomPay. The British banking giant announced Wednesday (Oct. 11) that merchants using its Bank Cardnet now have access to FreedomPay’s...

Banc of California Gets Into Merchant Acquiring With Global Payroll Gateway Buy

September 15, 2022
Banc of California has bought the payments platform and tech of Global Payroll Gateway and its subsidiary Deepstack, giving it a one-stop shop solution for payments for merchants to get...

Brazil Regulator Dismisses Itau Unibanco’s Appeal In Antitrust Case

November 28, 2019
Itau Unibanco Holding, Brazil’s largest lender, lost its appeal related to an antitrust case. Earlier this year, Itau announced it would prepay small- and mid-sized merchants in two days after...