Tag: AZ Payments

Another Huge Processing M&A Deal: Why the FIS / Worldpay Merger Could Create An Opening for Payment Facilitators

This week, the consolidation wave continued as FIS and Worldpay announced their plans to merge, creating another behemoth in the financial technology industry.

Off to an Acquisitive Start: MINDBODY, Paya, ClassPass

Despite significant M&A movement within the payments industry over the past couple of years, the activity doesn’t appear to be over. In fact, at the end of last year, Rick Oglesby, president of AZ Payments Group, predicted that acquisition would pick up in 2019 – and so far, the year is not disappointing.

3 Predictions for 2019: The PF Market Finds Its Footing

This past year has been an exciting one for the PF space. As the year nears its end, we asked experts to reflect on what they think the year 2019 will bring. Here’s what they told us.

Square Continues to Perform, Has “Many Different Ways to Win”

Ahead of its quarterly earnings report next week, leading payments company Square is popping up a lot in the investment press.

To Lend or Not to Lend? That is The Question

As the payments ecosystem continues to evolve and the payment facilitator model continues to hold its own in both profit and demand, a long-time customer offering once considered banks’ domain keeps making its way into the payments arena: Lending.