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ACI Worldwide To Power Pan-European Faster Online Payments
Payments Innovation // June 20, 2017

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time online payments and banking solutions, announced that it will offer its UP Immediate Payments solution via a hosted cloud. News from Finextra details that this will enable financial institutions across Europe to share connectivity to the EBA...

BlueCart Acquires Sous To Boost Mobile Procurement For Restaurants
Partnerships / Acquisitions // June 09, 2017

BlueCart is strengthening its position in restaurants’ back offices with a new acquisition. The company announced Thursday (June 8) that it is acquiring Sous, whose mobile restaurant administration platform will bolster BlueCart’s existing cloud procurement management solution. According to the companies, Sous’ mobile-first approach to...

Contextual Commerce Comes To Higher Education
Partnerships / Acquisitions // June 09, 2017

Getting tuition paid is one headache. Sending tuition abroad can cause headaches of a different sort: How do you know if your check to Europe for that semester abroad will make it safely from New York? One partnership, between CashNet and Flywire, seeks to smooth...

Data Enabler Startup ItsOn Brings Wireless Carriers Into The 21st Century
Mobile // June 08, 2017

Getting a cab or a meal, sending or receiving money, or shopping for a last-minute birthday gift: All of these everyday tasks are easy to complete from a smartphone. But updating your phone plan, adding some extra gigabytes of data or activating a roaming plan...

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Contextual Commerce Comes To Higher Education

June 09, 2017
Getting tuition paid is one headache. Sending tuition abroad can cause headaches of a different sort: How do you know if your check to Europe for that semester abroad will make it safely from New York? One partnership, between CashNet and Flywire, seeks to smooth payments for international students by making payment contextual and part of the billing process, as Sharon Butler, Flywire’s EVP of education, tells PYMNTS’ Karen Webster.

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ACI Worldwide To Power Pan-European Faster Online Payments

June 20, 2017
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time online payments and banking solutions, announced that it will offer its UP Immediate Payments solution via a hosted cloud. News from Finextra details that this will enable financial institutions across Europe to share connectivity to the EBA RT1 scheme and reduce the costs of real-time operations and […]