In today’s top payments news around the world, Urban Company has raised $255 million in a Series F funding round, while Divido has notched $30 million in venture funding. Plus, Yooz launched its new Yooz Rising automated accounts payable (AP) offering in Ireland. India’s Urban Company...
London-based Divido has reeled in $30 million in venture funding led by banking giants HSBC and ING. The company offers a buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform for the retail finance sector. In a press release, Divido said it would use the cash “to fuel...
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But as Divido co-founder Christer Holloman told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in the “In Their Own Words” podcast, innovation in the area had been almost completely...
Spring has arrived — which means flowers are blooming, birds are singing, sandals are emerging from closets — and startups are signing up with Mastercard to reshape the future of commerce. Today Mastercard is announcing the five new startups to its Start Path Global —Mastercard’s program for later-state startups that are ready...
April 21, 2023
Consumers and merchants are being let down by the current state of play in the traditional retail finance space — an “untouched” aspect of the checkout finance market, says Todd Latham, CEO at U.K. retail finance platform operator Divido. In an interview with PYMNTS, Latham explained that unlike other forms of checkout finance like buy […]
June 12, 2017
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But as Divido co-founder Christer Holloman told PYMNTS’ Karen...
January 13, 2017
For those who eat, breathe and sleep payments and commerce, talking about various retail channels makes all the sense in the world. But for those who aren’t payments peeps or...
June 02, 2021
London-based Divido has reeled in $30 million in venture funding led by banking giants HSBC and ING. The company offers a buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform for the retail finance sector. In a press release, Divido said it would use the cash “to fuel international expansion while continuing to build out its market-leading platform […]
April 10, 2017
Spring has arrived — which means flowers are blooming, birds are singing, sandals are emerging from closets — and startups are signing up with Mastercard to reshape the future of commerce. Today Mastercard is...
