Zug is a small town near Zürich with only about 30,000 residents, yet it is impacting the FinTech world in a big way. The town,...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes U.K.-based Callcredit’s upcoming name change to TransUnion. In addition, Glint...
Paidy, the company that instantly issues post-pay credit accounts linked to mobile phone numbers, announced on Thursday (July 12) that it raised $55 million in a...
Watching. Waiting. Concerns about fraud. And an apparent boost for biometrics. The second Payment Services Directive — known as PSD2 — has come into effect in...
Inevitable? Maybe (even if one’s view of inevitability may depend on one’s views of science and history). Well-financed and backed by significant IT focus? Yep....
The story of alternative finance is now well-known across the small business (SMB) lending community: Heightened risk management and capital requirements imposed on traditional lenders...
Emailage, the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. The company recently brought...
A whopping $613 billion in cross-border B2B payments is nothing to sneeze at, and the Banking Circle buyout gives the nod to the international appeal...
Sizzle IPOs: See a renaissance of sorts, topping $35 billion in 2018, amid the fastest pace in 20 years and among verticals as far-flung as...