Posts Tagged ‘Visa’
Stripe Targets the Middle Man With Stripe Issuing
With so many online apps touting convenience as a benefit driver, one merely has to unlock their home screen to have their favorite restaurant deliver food right to their doorstep. And this is just the type of business model that Stripe is targeting with Stripe Issuing.
Read MorePayPal Targets $3 Billion Annually in M&A; Acquisitions in Global Payments Space Skyrocket: News Roundup
PaymentFacilitator’s News Roundup is a curated mix of the past week’s news and articles from around the web, including company announcements, global payments news, and other coverage and analysis of topics relevant to payment facilitators.
Read MoreFrictionless Underwriting: Worth the Risk?
While controlling access to the payments system is critical, the legacy system in place to do so was overkill for many players. To accept electronic payments, even the smallest merchant had to complete the same applications and undergo the same scrutiny as the big guys. Enter frictionless underwriting.
Read MorePivotal Payments PF Platform Now Registered with Visa, Mastercard
Pivotal Payments announced last week that its PayFac Connect platform is now registered with Visa and Mastercard as fully complying with the card brands’ payment facilitator guidelines.
Read MoreAsia’s Drive for Financial Inclusion Means Opportunity for PFs
It’s hard to read the global news about payments without continually seeing something new happening in Asia. Companies like Paytm and Grab are expanding rapidly, enabling payments in innovative ways for small and micromerchants across the region.
Read MoreDream Payments, First Data and Intuit Collaborate to Enhance the Payment Experience; Verifone and Alipay Expand Partnership: News Roundup
Dream Payments, First Data and Intuit come together to elevate the payment experience while Verifone and Alipay expand their partnership. And in other news, Visa makes signature optional at qualifying locations while TSYS completes its acquisition of Cayan.
Read MoreHoly KYC, Batman! New 2018 Rules Require PFs to Perform KYC on up to Five Owners
Don’t worry, technology is on your side and the PF model and frictionless underwriting will endure.
Read MoreVisa Partners with Worldpay to Launch Visa Direct in Europe
Eligible European Worldpay merchants can now leverage Visa’s technology and global reach to convert domestic and cross-border payments (in real time) for consumers and businesses worldwide.
Read MorePayPal Surpasses AMEX in Market Value
Digital payment processor and registered payment facilitator PayPal has been gaining notoriety this year in stock share and overall market value. So much so, the payments platform has now surpassed AMEX in market capitalization.
Read MoreVisa: Reducing Cash Use Could Yield $470 Billion in Annual Benefits for Cities
Visa makes an economic argument for embracing digital payments and reducing the use of cash in a new report, which estimates that electronic payments adoption could provide a net benefit of $470 billion (USD) per year across 100 cities.
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