Square Appointments opens to direct bookings through Instagram and Google
MarketWatch Square Inc. announced Thursday that its appointments platform will integrate with Facebook Inc.’s Instagram and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Sellers who use Instagram can enable a functionality on their pages that will let browsers book appointments at their »
Black Friday & Cyber Monday Gateway Award
Online spending in the U.S. hit new highs on Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year. Black Friday reached $6.2B, up 24% from 2017, while Cyber Monday broke the U.S. record for online sales with $7.9B, »
Mastercard & TSG Whitepaper: B2B Payment Gateways & Commercial Card Payments
The nature of B2B payments has evolved over the past decade. In that time, the accounts receivable (AR) function has transformed to meet these changes, but there are still “historical” processes that need to mature »
Amazon seeks to expand Amazon Pay digital wallet into brick-and mortar
Mobile Payments Today Amazon is making a push to get its Amazon Pay digital wallet into restaurants, gas stations and other merchants that it doesn’t directly compete against The move is an effort to challenge Apple Pay, »
Skip the Bitcoin Chat at Thanksgiving this Year
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Plastiq raises $27M at 2X+ value to let you pay for anything on credit
TechCrunch “I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didn’t »
Poynt raises $100M for its smart payment terminal
TechCrunch Elavon, a U.S. Bank-owned payment processing company, and National Australia Bank have participated in the $100 million Series C for Poynt, a developer of smart payment terminals and an open operating system that powers any payment terminal worldwide. »
Now Available: Adyen Company Analysis
TSG has released its newest eReport as part of its Company Analysis Series. This edition focuses on Adyen, a fast-growing global technology company focused on helping businesses grow through optimizing their payment processing operations. Did You Know? »
TSG in Digital Transactions: Ingenico Sacks Its CEO As It Considers ‘Strategic Options’
The shakeup, which Ingenico in October hinted was coming, is yet another sign that the traditional POS terminal market is undergoing a transformation. Ingenico’s archrival, San Jose, Calif.-based Verifone Systems Inc., went private in August. Both »
NCR Acquires StopLift, Gains Powerful Anti-Theft Solution for Self-Checkout
NCR NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced that it has acquired StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, a leader in intelligent computer vision systems, to combat theft in the retail business. Financial terms of the transaction were not »
Visa and Billtrust team on digital B2B payments
Finextra Visa and today announced that they are collaborating on Billtrust’s Business Payments Network (BPN), which is designed to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments to suppliers. As a unique supplier-driven B2B payments network, »
Target launching ‘Skip-the-Line’ checkout technology
MarketWatch Target Corp. announced its holiday plans on Thursday, highlighting “Skip-the-Line” mobile checkout technology and unveiling a Black Friday ad with select deals that are already available. “Skip the Line” will allow customers to pay »
Albertsons, Takeoff to pilot robotic e-commerce grocery fulfillment
Mobile Payments Today Albertsons, one of the largest grocery chains in the U.S., entered an agreement with Takeoff Technologies to test an AI-based microfulfillment technology that will help drive new efficiencies in the grocery chain’s growing »
Adyen brings its payments platform to Canada
MarketWatch Dutch payments company Adyen said Tuesday that it was expanding its platform to Canada. The company announced that Dollar Shave Club, Adidas, Busbud, and Canada Goose will use Adyen’s payment-processing capabilities for their Canadian operations. »
Payments Analytics Month: Greatest Hits
Throughout October TSG provided content on a variety of topics relating to the payments industry in an effort to build awareness around the importance of using analytics to enhance decision-making. See below for the most popular material »
