Cloud Based Payments news and trends

FortisPay Buys OmniFund to Boost AR Features
Partnerships / Acquisitions // September 14, 2021

Payment technology company FortisPay, which works with businesses, independent software vendors and developers, has acquired OmniFund, according to an emailed press release on Tuesday (Sept. 14). OmniFund works on cloud-based payments-as-a-platform solutions, leveraging it with software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. According to the...

Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
Payment Methods // January 12, 2021

If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices … then it makes sense to move to the cloud. To that end, Mastercard said Monday (Jan. 11) that it had partnered...

Payments’ Innovation Half-Year Progress Report
Mobile Payments // June 20, 2016

At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends that I suggested would set the agenda for payments innovation and commerce reinvention in 2016. The foundation for those six trends was the ability for innovators to leverage the near ubiquity...

Pitney Bowes Pivots To eCommerce
eCommerce // April 27, 2016

Finding technology and eCommerce to be a natural marriage, Pitney Bowes continues to expand from the former into the latter. Yesterday (April 26), the company announced the launch of a cloud-based payments engine that integrates with third-party shipping and eCommerce platforms. The payments processing aspect...

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Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud

January 12, 2021
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices … then it makes sense to move to the cloud. To that end, Mastercard said Monday (Jan. 11) that it had partnered with NMI and Global Payments to launch a pilot for […]

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FortisPay Buys OmniFund to Boost AR Features

September 14, 2021
Payment technology company FortisPay, which works with businesses, independent software vendors and developers, has acquired OmniFund, according to an emailed press release on Tuesday (Sept. 14). OmniFund works on cloud-based payments-as-a-platform solutions, leveraging it with software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. According to the release, the company’s payments-as-a-platform solution works with things like credit-card […]

Pitney Bowes Pivots To eCommerce

April 27, 2016
Finding technology and eCommerce to be a natural marriage, Pitney Bowes continues to expand from the former into the latter. Yesterday (April 26), the company announced the launch of a...