In today’s FinTech news, Aussie FinTech Airwallex is moving into New Zealand with its multi-currency digital wallets, while Aussie bank Volt hands back its license. Plus, Seattle resident Luke Hartsock dropped his class-action lawsuit against banking giant Wells Fargo and digital payments network Zelle. Airwallex...
Funding Societies is set to acquire payments solution CardUp, the Singapore-based digital financing platform announced Wednesday (June 29). “Through the move, the company will acquire CardUp’s payments capabilities such as card payments to non-card accepting recipients (domestic and cross-border), online payments acceptance, invoice automation tools...
Corporate card innovators are digging their heels deeper into markets in which card penetration is relatively low, with solution providers hoping to link businesses to card benefits like enhanced cash flow management. This week’s look at Commercial Card Innovation finds Mastercard eyeing India, Visa targeting...
Consumers around the world have become intimately familiar with the “card-not-present” method of payment. Now businesses in Asia have an option to embrace “card not needed” as the pandemic continues to accelerate business models. That option, which extends to commercial cards, is being presented by...
June 26, 2017
Class is in session! For the summer. Today, (June 26), Mastercard announced news that it admitted six new startups into the Start Path program’s class of 2017. So far, Mastercard says that Start Path has helped 150 later-stage tech and FinTech startups grow from “good to great to global.” “We tailor a specific program to each of the […]
October 28, 2024
Mastercard launched a new card-based bill-pay solution for merchants, acquirers, payment facilitators and payment service providers. The new Bill Qkr is live and available globally, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 28) press release. “With Mastercard Bill Qkr, we’re bringing our cutting-edge payment technologies together with our longstanding, global approach to collaboration,” Jennifer Marriner, […]
