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U.S. startups had a great 2018 in terms of funding, with new data showing that venture capitalists deployed $130.9 billion, marking a new all-time high....
Plaid, the FinTech company that enables developers to create financial services applications, announced Tuesday (Jan. 8) that it has acquired Quovo to make it easier for...
Standard Cognition, the company that makes artificial intelligence-powered autonomous checkout for retailers, announced on Monday (Jan. 7) that it has acquired Explorer.ai, which makes mapping...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip’s multi-currency Visa cards...
Indian tech startups had a huge year in 2018, but the way the money is being distributed has some experts concerned about the future of...
Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best...
Visa, the payments company, is acquiring U.K.-based Earthport, which facilitates international transactions for banks and companies. Reuters, citing Visa, reported Visa International Service Association is paying $250.6...
Ant Financial, the affiliate of Alibaba, is in discussions to pay around $700 million for U.K. payments company WorldFirst. The Financial Times reported that if...
Tradeshift, a company that provides supply chain payments and digitization solutions, announced the acquisition of partner Babelway on Tuesday (Dec. 18). Babelway enables businesses to...