Private equity firm EQT is reportedly looking to sell its majority stake in payments processor Banking Circle. EQT is aiming for a deal that would value Banking Circle at more than $2 billion, including debt, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. The firm and investment...
Earlier this week, FinCEN reported that mail theft-related check fraud amounted to more than $688 million in a recent six-month period. The bulk of the reports were filed by banks, to the tune of 88% of all reports by filing. As to the costs of...
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon reportedly said Wednesday (Sept. 11) that the bank’s exit from its credit partnership with General Motors is no “messier” than it expected. Solomon’s comments came during an interview on CNBC in which he was asked if the exit was messier than Goldman...
Visa and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) have partnered to launch a card payment platform for trade settlements in South Korea. The new Global Trade Payment Platform (GTPP) is scheduled to go live by the end of October, Visa said in a Wednesday (Sept. 11) press...
If business and commerce are always on in the digital age — existing as 24/7, year-round endeavors — so must the settlement systems that enable a broad range of transactions. In a Sept. 11 letter to central bank chairman Jerome Powell, a group of senators...
Gusto will soon add an artificial intelligence-powered assistant called Gus to the human resources (HR), payroll, benefits and compliance platform and products it offers for small business owners. The company opened a waitlist and said it will make the AI assistant available to customers and...
Brazilian investment firm Upload Ventures is reportedly upping its artificial intelligence (AI) investments while avoiding credit FinTechs. That’s according to a Bloomberg News interview Wednesday (Sept. 11) with Carlos Simonsen, co-founder and managing partner of the venture capital (VC) firm. “There are a lot of...
Financial services enabler Paymob raised another $22 million to expand its offering in its core market of Egypt and its newer markets in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The $22 million Series B extension round follows a $50 million initial Series B funding round in...
Fast-fashion brand Zara is bringing its secondhand clothing marketplace to the U.S. Zara Pre-Owned, which lets customers sell, donate or repair secondhand clothing, is set to launch in the U.S. by the end of October, parent company Inditex announced in its half-year earnings report Wednesday (Sept. 11). The company first introduced...
