Will Global Payments sell its issuer business?

Some analysts are pressing the processor to consider divesting the segment that caters to financial institutions, even as its merchant segment grapples with competition.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 24, 2025

Klarna, JPMorgan to offer BNPL to business clients

The collaboration will let the bank’s payments division offer the buy now, pay later company’s financing options to business customers.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 11, 2025

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Payments players eye digital B2B opportunity

Companies offering digital payments services envision billions of dollars in U.S. business payments flow ripe for transitioning to the electronic realm.

By Payments Dive staff

Flutterwave CFO keeps eye on ‘sustainable’ profitability

It’s important to prioritize enabling stable revenue and solid profitability given the macroeconomic volatility in the African markets where Flutterwave operates, CFO Mitesh Popat said.

By Grace Noto • Feb. 3, 2025

TransferMate joins Amazon’s payments pack

As part of the e-commerce giant’s ecosystem, the Irish business-to-business payments provider can advance its bid to expand internationally.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Jan. 30, 2025

Highnote raises $90M for expansion

The embedded payments company led by former Braintree executives will use the capital to extend its business into providing acquiring services.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Jan. 27, 2025

How ACI Worldwide is deploying AI

The payments software company has artificial intelligence delivering efficiencies in several areas of its business, CEO Tom Warsop said recently.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 8, 2025

Payments player Tranch acquired by legal services firm

Both companies provide services to law firms worldwide, and the acquirer, Elite, says the merger will help expand its product offerings.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 7, 2025

Shift4 merges with Eigen

Shift4 quietly updated its website in recent days to say that Eigen Payments is now a part of the payments processing company.

By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 12, 2024

Struggling businesses pile on credit card debt, survey shows

Nearly two-thirds of financially unhealthy businesses fail to pay their monthly credit card bill in full, the results of a marketing research survey showed.

By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 9, 2024

Remitly, Payoneer cross-border payments climb

Payments volume soared for the money transfer fintechs during the third quarter. Meanwhile, revenue at legacy rival Western Union slipped.

By Lynne Marek • Nov. 8, 2024

Fiserv, Capital One, others invest $150M in Melio

Some of the corporate investors are also partnering with the accounts payable and receivable company they’re backing.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 4, 2024

Paytronix acquired by Access Group

The deal will expand the offerings available through Paytronix’s platform and help accelerate its growth, executives said.

By Jessica Loder • Nov. 4, 2024

5 payments predictions from research firm Forrester

Cash use worldwide will drop significantly next year, despite its U.S. persistence, the research firm Forrester predicts. Meanwhile, business-to-business acquisitions in the payments realm will pick up.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris and Lynne Marek • Nov. 1, 2024

Finix eyes competition with rivals like Stripe

The payment processor said Thursday that it raised $75 million and is seeking to grab a bigger slice of a payments market dominated by larger rivals.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 25, 2024

Pipe pursues international expansion

The digital cash advance provider to small businesses deepened its ties to the British firm GoCardless this week as part of its quest to expand outside the U.S. market.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 23, 2024

Stripe to buy stablecoin company Bridge for reported $1.1 billion

The CEOs for Stripe and Bridge confirmed the news on the social media platform X on Monday, but offered few details on the deal.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 21, 2024

Fiserv may grab competitive edge with new bank charter

The payments processor can undercut rivals on price because it won’t be paying bank fees, say industry consultants.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 21, 2024

Walmart pitches Fiserv’s Clover to business clients

The retailer is offering the mega-processor’s Clover equipment and account services to its business clients at a discount through next January.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 17, 2024

Worldpay taps Aeropay for gaming payments assist

The two payments companies have teamed up to provide account-to-account payments for gaming merchants and their customers.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 14, 2024

Stripe partners with Nvidia, Pepsi and Rivian

The payments software provider announced a slew of new partnerships on Wednesday, also with Amazon and AMC Networks.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 11, 2024

Healthcare’s paper check disease

“The persistence of paper checks for patient refunds is not just an inconvenience — it's a symptom of a larger problem that threatens the very sustainability of healthcare organizations,” one software firm CFO writes in this opinion piece.

By Seton Marshall • Oct. 8, 2024

Fiserv teams with Canadian company on open banking

Fiserv has allowed Zūm Rails to use its embedded finance system to bring open banking and instant payments to Fiserv’s U.S. business customers.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 7, 2024

Real-time payments to make uneven progress, report predicts

The number of banks receiving real-time payments will outpace the number of those sending payments through at least 2028, according to a new survey by the U.S. Faster Payments Council.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 7, 2024

Mastercard to buy Minna Technologies

The card network will acquire the Swedish business in a bid to provide consumers with a centralized hub for managing their subscriptions.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Oct. 2, 2024

Fiserv, Wells Fargo to end joint venture

The venture between the payments processor and the bank will expire in April, prompting a cash payment from one to the other.

By Patrick Cooley • Sept. 27, 2024