February 22, 2023
Worldline Plans More Acquisitions After Growing Revenue 10.7% in 2022
Worldline plans to continue acquiring technology companies after earning double-digit organic growth in 2022. The French payment services and technology firm said in a Tuesday (Feb. 21) press release that...
February 16, 2023
Legacy Payments Infrastructure Holds Small Merchants Back in Emerging Markets
The imbalance between payments issuance and acceptance is a major pain point in emerging markets. According to Islam Shawky, co-founder and CEO at Cairo-based digital payments service provider Paymob, that...
November 07, 2022
Worldline Set to Buy Banco Desio’s Merchant-Acquiring Activities
The French multinational payment firm Worldline announced on Monday (Nov. 7) that it will purchase Banco Desio’s merchant-acquiring activities for 100 million euros ($100.3 million). The deal is expected to...
October 26, 2022
Worldline Acquires SoftPos to Tap Into Contactless Payment Demand
French payments services firm Worldline has purchased a 55% stake in SoftPos, a Polish FinTech, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 26). Founded in 2019, Warsaw-based SoftPos offers technology that “converts...
September 13, 2022
India’s DASH Platforms Offer Cashfree Payments POS to Merchants
Payment and application programming interface (API) banking solutions company Cashfree Payments is supplying its point-of-sale (POS) solution to go-to-market platform for brands DASH, enabling DASH to manage payments from 2,000...
September 01, 2022
SumUp Intros Digital Wallet With Loyalty Rewards as It Ventures...
Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company SumUp is venturing into the business-to-consumer (B2C) space with the launch of its first digital wallet and loyalty rewards program. SumUp Pay provides consumers across Europe with a secure...
August 29, 2022
Notting Hill Carnival Returns to London Amid High Consumer Costs,...
This week and for the first time since 2019, Londoners gathered for the annual Notting Hill carnival, a street festival and celebration of the city’s Caribbean cultures that typically draws...
June 20, 2022
SoftPOS Drives EU Merchants’ Adoption of Contactless Payments
Merchants who want to accept contactless payments, either by card or mobile wallet, have traditionally needed card readers to do so, but a new technology, known as software point-of-sale (SoftPOS)...
June 16, 2022
Mazepay Streamlining B2B Purchases With Pan-European Payments License
Financial software platform Mazepay on Thursday (June 16) announced that it has secured a pan-European payments license from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, giving it the ability to streamline B2B...