Payworks news and trends

Why Visa Acquired PayWorks
Partnerships / Acquisitions // July 18, 2019

Enabling a great commerce experience can be a daunting task for merchants as the year 2019 passes the halfway mark. Form factors and payments methods are proliferating. So, too, are shopping channels, devices that connect to them and contexts in which buying something is now...

Visa Acquires Germany-Based Payworks
Partnerships / Acquisitions // July 17, 2019

Visa said early Wednesday (July  17) that it has acquired Payworks, a payment gateway based in Germany focused on the point of sale (POS). The company said in a release that Payworks will be integrated into CyberSource’s portfolio of services offered to clients. In its...

Bambora Teams Up With Payworks, The Bank Of East Asia Unveils Payment Hub
Global Payments // August 14, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes WorldRemit’s partnership with Safaricom for money transfers to mobile money accounts in Kenya. In addition, Bambora is working with Payworks to introduce Bambora Connect, and Hong Kong-based The Bank of East...

Payworks Raises $14.5M To Grow POS Technology
Payment Methods // February 15, 2018

Payworks announced that it has completed a $14.5M Series B financing round with CommerzVentures and Visa, as well as existing investors Speedinvest and Finparx participating in this round. Founded in 2012, Payworks offers a variety of omnichannel payment providers a next-generation payment gateway technology, operated...

Interviews & Exclusives
Where In The World Is Alipay?

September 04, 2017
Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe and North America now supported and South America being the only major exception (besides Antarctica, though we hear the tourism scene there is heating up, so who knows — it could be next!). […]

Quick Reads
Visa Acquires Germany-Based Payworks

July 17, 2019
Visa said early Wednesday (July  17) that it has acquired Payworks, a payment gateway based in Germany focused on the point of sale (POS). The company said in a release that Payworks will be integrated into CyberSource’s portfolio of services offered to clients. In its release, the company said that Payworks’ cloud-based solution for in-store […]

Payworks Partners With Alipay In Europe

August 04, 2017
Payworks, a provider of point-of-sale (POS) payment infrastructure, announced news on Thursday (Aug. 3) that its payment gateway technology will be supporting the integration of Alipay, the mobile payment provider...

Payworks’ Pulse Powers Modern-Day Commerce

August 31, 2016
German mobile payment company Payworks announced the launch of its new gateway technology that enables developers to integrate payment card readers into the POS across in-store and mobile channels. By...