BigCommerce raises $64 million to take on Shopify, fuel expansion
ZDNet: BigCommerce says it has raised $64 million in equity funding led by Goldman Sachs to fuel a range of expansion efforts. The Austin, Texas-based company is also looking to the cash injection to help »
Chevrolet and Shell let you pay for gas from inside the car
CNET: Even though you have to get out of your car to pump gas (in most states, at least), you don’t necessarily have to leave the vehicle’s cushy confines to pay for it. Chevrolet’s new Marketplace in-car app »
Visa, Mastercard may team up on shared payment button for online shopping
MarketWatch: Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., the two largest U.S. card networks, said Wednesday that they’re planning to drop their longstanding initiatives to get online shoppers to use dedicated payment buttons. The two payments giants instead want »
TSG is the Middle-Market Leader
The U.S. Merchant Acquiring transaction market remains extremely active well into 2018. At TRANSACT 18, The Strawhecker Group (TSG) is pleased to announce its growth in the buy/sell advisory space over the past year. Highlights Recently Advised »
The Strawhecker Group Sees Growth in Leading Analytics Products
Business Wire: The Strawhecker Group (TSG), the largest analytics and consulting firm focused on the payments acceptance industry, is pleased to announce new milestones for the firm’s industry-first analytic products today at ETA’s TRANSACT 18. »
Worldpay adds smart terminal from PAX to its SmartPay Series™
PR Newswire: Vantiv, now Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP) announced today at ETA TRANSACT (Booth #410) it is adding the handheld PAX A920 to its line of SmartPay Series terminals. These devices feature a single software platform »
Paysafe to Acquire iPayment | Francisco Partners to Take Verifone Private
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25 restaurants add LevelUp support
Mobile Payments Today: LevelUp has added 25 restaurant brands as partners, including national chains Smoothie King and Zaxby’s, and up-and-coming brands honeygrow, Wings Over and Evergreens, among others, according to a press release. Eight of »
TSG in Digital Transactions: A $3.4 Billion Deal Aims To Take VeriFone Private Again
“Legacy POS hardware players, like VeriFone, have recently struggled with the EMV transition as well as the cloud-based POS evolution (which may have been fueled in part by the EMV transition),” Jared Drieling, senior director »
TSG in n>genuity: How Net Neutrality Threats May Result in ‘Preferential Payments’
By Trevor Forbes, Director of Metrics, The Strawhecker Group The topic of net neutrality has recently been beaming around all corners of the internet, generating 33 million search hits on Google. Many are discussing how »
Delta, Sears are part of credit card data breach at tech firm
MarketWatch Delta Air Lines Inc. and Sears Holding Corp., including its Kmart stores, confirmed late Wednesday that select customer payment information may have been exposed in a cybersecurity breach at a software service provider they »
Square makes peer-to-peer Cash app available in the U.K.
MarketWatch: Square Inc. said Tuesday that it would be making its peer-to-peer Cash app available in the U.K. This marks the first international market for the app. As in the U.S., users will be able to send »
Walmart launches global money transfer service
Finextra: Retailer Walmart is pushing further into the financial sector through a service that lets people transfer money from its US stores to 200 countries. The firm has teamed up with Moneygram on Walmart2World, promising »
HSBC to offer Paypal as global disbursement option for corporate clients
Finextra: PayPal’s strategy of making deals with big banks is bearing fruit, as HSBC becomes the latest to add the payment method to its global disbursement service for corporate customers. The HSBC disbursements business already »
Braintree intros new services to help merchants with the customer experience
Mobile Payments Today: Braintree has introduced a suite of new services focused on three areas for merchants: transaction services, rewards and loyalty and contextual commerce. Together, the new services are called Braintree Extend. Braintree wrote »
Google Assistant now has the power to send and request money
Engadget: Google is making it easy to pay Bob and Kate for last weekend’s barbecue by connecting its voice assistant to its mobile payment platform. You can now ask Assistant to pay your contacts — or »
