2023 hasn’t been an easy environment for small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Business bankruptcy rates jumped 30% between September 2022 and September 2023, as macro factors like record-high interest rates and the end of pandemic relief increasingly battered small businesses’ prospects. That’s why it has never been...
Composable commerce platform commercetools announced a collaboration with PayPal to offer a wider range of payment options for customers through the PayPal Braintree payment platform. This integration will allow commercetools’ customers to seamlessly work with multiple payment providers, acquirers, and banks, according to a Monday...
In payments, Spreedly CEO Justin Benson told Karen Webster in a recent interview that 2023 “has been the year of retrenchment.” The time is right, he said, to take stock of corporate strategies and product and service innovations. As interest rates have soared, as early-stage-funding has dried up,...
In an effort to expand access to financial institutions (FIs), the Central Bank of Nigeria is planning to license more payment providers, Bloomberg reported on Saturday (Nov. 30). The goal is to improve Nigeria’s financial inclusion rate by 20 percent, bringing it to 80 percent...
December 29, 2023
2023 hasn’t been an easy environment for small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Business bankruptcy rates jumped 30% between September 2022 and September 2023, as macro factors like record-high interest rates and the end of pandemic relief increasingly battered small businesses’ prospects. That’s why it has never been more crucial for Main Street SMBs to identify and act […]
October 25, 2023
In payments, Spreedly CEO Justin Benson told Karen Webster in a recent interview that 2023 “has been the year of retrenchment.” The time is right, he said, to take stock of corporate strategies...
August 27, 2018
It is often a flexible, rarely precise concept, around which centuries of philosophical, political and artistic debates have revolved: trust. In business (specifically digital business that relies on consumer data),...
June 26, 2024
Payments provider Rainforest has raised $20 million to expand its embedded payments offering. The Atlanta-based company said it will use funds from the Series A round, led by Matrix Partners, to advance its technology and product offerings, expand its platform success team and launch new go-to-market initiatives. “Rainforest helps software platforms grow revenue by embedding payments into […]
November 06, 2023
Composable commerce platform commercetools announced a collaboration with PayPal to offer a wider range of payment options for customers through the PayPal Braintree payment platform. This integration will allow commercetools’...
December 01, 2019
In an effort to expand access to financial institutions (FIs), the Central Bank of Nigeria is planning to license more payment providers, Bloomberg reported on Saturday (Nov. 30). The goal...
December 16, 2018
Payment providers in the U.K. are not fully prepared for the chance of a no-deal Brexit, warned the European Banking Authority late last week. According to a report in Reuters citing...
