Instead of joining a major payments provider, Plaid aims to disrupt the Visa, Mastercard, and Amex payment empire. Partners like Square, Dwolla, and new arrivals to the Plaid ecosystem Checkout.com and Marqeta are members of the new program, building payment capabilities for the new age of fintech.
Card conglomerates, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express, grabbed multiple headlines in 2018 centered on their adoption of commercial cards as well...
ChargeAfter operates in the point of sale space, connecting merchants and lenders to provide more options for consumers; the strategic...
Coinbase and Mastercard announced a partnership to offer users more "payment choices" on the upcoming Coinbase NFT platform.
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In American Banker Penny Crosman considers Mastercard’s recent announcement of the acquisition of Finicity and Visa’s acquisition of Plaid; if...
Fintech platform SoFi has struck a new exclusive partnership with card issuer Mastercard to be the sole issuer for SoFi...
Since expanding globally in 2019 Visa has grown their Fast Track program to include more than 140 fintech companies; the...
This week, we look at:
The Bitcoin money supply being worth as much as the M1 of several countries
The Visa/Plaid deal DOJ anti-trust filing and the PayPal integration of Bitcoin
Understanding Central Bank Digital Currencies in the context of card networks, payment processors, and digital economies
Chinese CBDC and how it could relate to stopping the $34B Ant Financial IPO
How a CBDC ecosystem is like an operating system, rather than a payment rail
Payments fintech Stripe announced three major upgrades to their payments platform to help users increase revenue, direct connectivity to major...