Posts Tagged ‘APIs’
Mastercard Publishes Fintech Trends to Watch in 2020
Mastercard published a report this week in conjunction with its Start Path program, laying out what it says are the top five fintech trends to watch across the globe.
Read MorePineapple Payments and Paystri Partner on Behalf of ISVs
In an effort to grow its ISV channel and support new innovative opportunities, Pineapple Payments has acquired a portfolio from and formed a partnership with payment processing and strategic solutions company Paystri. This most recent collaboration supports Pineapple’s vision to serve as an innovative leader for merchants in both technology and payments. And it comes…
Read MoreSquare on Broadening the Company’s Ecosystem Through its Developer Platform
Payments leader Square is known for looking at things in a new way. But once you’ve converted an entire industry to your way of thinking, how do you keep moving forward? According to Carl Perry, developer lead at Square, you do that by maintaining what he called a “relentless focus on customer experience.”
Read MoreSquare Strives Beyond Payments with New API Offering
In an effort to target and support all aspects of commerce, Square has launched Orders API
Read MoreSquare in Agreement with DoorDash to Sell Caviar
Payments innovator Square has entered into a definitive agreement with door-to-door delivery technology platform DoorDash. So what is Square definitively doing here? They’re selling their food-ordering business, Caviar.
Read MoreMastercard’s Zahir Khoja on the Trends “Working in Our Favor”
According to Mastercard’s Zahir Khoja, 85% of transactions globally are still made in cash, representing an enormous opportunity for payments providers to grow digital acceptance. Presenting at PF WORLD 2018, Khoja told the audience that, while the number of cash transactions looms large, market trends are helping providers move many of those merchants toward digital payments with a focus on the experience it provides for consumers.
Read MoreGrab Empowers Small and Micro Businesses with New Open Platform
Singapore’s Grab is continuing its push to be central to the lives of Southeast Asians.
Read MoreBuilding the Next Amazing Marketplace? Your Top Five Payment API Must-Haves
If you’re familiar with payment facilitation, chances are that you’re already savvy about payments. As a payment facilitator, you become a “mini-acquirer,” managing your own community of merchants.
Payment facilitation can be critical to enabling new business models, but for developers it can present gnarly technical challenges. The top five “must-haves” for payment facilitator APIs are described below.
Read MoreAre APIs Vulnerable? Two Crucial Places PFs Should Focus Now to Help Mitigate Risk
In the payment facilitator world, APIs are everywhere you look. In many cases, they’re the mechanism that allows the system to work – enabling payments infrastructure to integrate with other functions in a way that solves businesses’ unique problems.
So not surprisingly, API security is a hot topic. Does the use of APIs leave merchants more vulnerable to fraud? What are the special security considerations?
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