acquisitions

This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big Doings ‘Bout SMB Payments
This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big...
January 17, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there was no shortage...

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Global Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend
Global Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend
January 16, 2020  |  Acquiring

New day, new multi-billion-dollar deal within the payments space. To that end, Far Point Acquisition – which operates as a “blank check” company that focuses...

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SAP Concur Shutters Travel Search Site Hipmunk
SAP Concur Shutters Travel Search Site Hipmunk
January 15, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Less than three years after acquiring travel search startup Hipmunk, SAP Concur has announced that it will shutter both the consumer- and corporate-facing operations of the...

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With Pointy Deal, Google Digs Deeper Into Brick-And-Mortar Retail
With Pointy Deal, Google Digs Deeper Into Brick-And-Mortar Retail
January 14, 2020  |  Google

Listen closely to recent news — including news coming out of the ongoing National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City — and...

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Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
January 14, 2020  |  VISA

Visa is buying Plaid — the startup that develops APIs for financial services — for $5.3 billion. By helping to bridge the gap between apps...

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Takeaway Wins Bid For UK’s Just Eat With $8B Share Offer
Takeaway Wins Bid For UK’s Just Eat With $8B Share Offer
January 10, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Online food ordering firm Takeaway.com has won the battle for the U.K.’s Just Eat with a 6.2 billion pound ($8 billion) share offer that will...

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Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
January 09, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Denmark-based payments platform Nets is acquiring two Finnish companies, Poplatek and its spinoff Poplapay, to enhance its payments capabilities and better serve merchants across Europe,...

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Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
January 03, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of...

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Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
December 26, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks new business models...

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