Payments Platforms news and trends

Thunes Tackles US Gaming Market With Tilia Acquisition
Acquisitions // April 23, 2024

Cross-border payments firm Thunes is set to acquire all-in-one-payments platform Tilia. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 23), is aimed at speeding Thunes’ growth in the U.S. and its presence in the online gaming market. “The acquisition of Tilia demonstrates our ambition in the United States,”...

Transaction Network Services Debuts Payment Platform
Payment Methods // April 16, 2024

Payments infrastructure provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched payment and network solution Complete Commerce.  As the company noted in a Tuesday (April 16) news release, enterprises need to deliver user-friendly, reliable and secure payments experiences while also juggling evolving consumer behavior, regulatory demands and technology...

Lightspeed Gross Payments Volume Jumps 69% With Unified Payments Initiative
Earnings // February 08, 2024

Digital commerce firm Lightspeed continues to see success from its unified payments platform. The combined point-of-sale (POS) and payments platform, which debuted last year, helped increase the company’s gross payments volume (GPV) by 69% this year, management said during an earnings call Thursday (Feb. 8).  Revenues were up 27%...

Octane Teams With Stripe to Support ‘Consumption-Based’ Billing Platform
Partnerships // January 14, 2024

Billing platform Octane says it has joined the payments processor Stripe. “We started Octane to democratize consumption-based pricing by building the billing infrastructure needed to support it,” the company said in its announcement last week. “Today, we continue to see tremendous growth of consumption-based pricing use cases.”...

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PayU Vet Mario Shiliashki Picked to Lead myPOS

April 24, 2024
Small-business-focused payments/card solutions company myPOS has named Mario Shiliashki as its new CEO. Shiliashki, the company announced Wednesday (April 24) in a news release provided to PYMNTS, “brings a global view of payments, having worked across four continents for companies such as PayPal, Mastercard and more recently PayU.” His hiring comes five months after the […]

Thunes Tackles US Gaming Market With Tilia Acquisition

April 23, 2024
Cross-border payments firm Thunes is set to acquire all-in-one-payments platform Tilia. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 23), is aimed at speeding Thunes’ growth in the U.S. and its presence in...

Transaction Network Services Debuts Payment Platform

April 16, 2024
Payments infrastructure provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched payment and network solution Complete Commerce.  As the company noted in a Tuesday (April 16) news release, enterprises need to deliver user-friendly,...

Lightspeed Gross Payments Volume Jumps 69% With Unified Payments Initiative

February 08, 2024
Digital commerce firm Lightspeed continues to see success from its unified payments platform. The combined point-of-sale (POS) and payments platform, which debuted last year, helped increase the company’s gross payments volume (GPV) by 69%...