Latest Eftpos News: Finextra Research

Dapio picks up $3.4m to turn phones into POS devices

Dapio, a UK outfit that helps businesses accept contactless payments on their Android devices, has raised $3.4 million in a round co-led by African paymentts behemoth Flutterwave and Techstars.

31 March 2022

News/payments

NAB Ventures joins $12 million round in merchant payments platform DataMesh

Australian merchant payments group DataMesh has secured $12m in a pre-Series A funding round, including new investor NAB Ventures.

30 March 2022

Company update/payments

Mastercard partners with Bank Alfalah for market-first launch of Tap on Phone in Pakistan

Mastercard and Bank Alfalah have entered into a strategic partnership to empower businesses in Pakistan through the launch of two of Mastercard’s market-leading solutions powered by Mastercard Payment Gateway Services – Tap on Phone and Simplify Commerce – leveraging the power of technology to catalyze success and boost financial inclusion for businesses across the market, with a special focus on small enterprises.

29 March 2022

Company update/payments

FreedomPay scores mobile POS deal with Sephora

FreedomPay, the world’s leading commerce platform, announces partnership with Sephora USA, Inc. the leading prestige beauty omni-retailer, to integrate FreedomPay’s data-driven commerce technology platform in Sephora’s 500 plus stores across the Americas.

21 March 2022

Company update/payments

Emerchantpay and Propel unite to finance card payment terminals

emerchantpay, a leading payment service provider, and Propel, a pioneering asset finance specialist, have announced a new strategic partnership.

16 March 2022

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7-Eleven stores in Japan trial holographic payment terminal

Customers at six 7-Eleven stores in Japan can now make contactless payments using a holographic screen projected from the self-checkout terminal.

16 March 2022

Company update/payments

Moneyhub brings open banking payments to Samsung kiosks

Moneyhub, the award-winning Open Data and payments platform, is partnering with leading global electronics manufacturer Samsung to facilitate the world’s first Open Banking payments on a retail self-service point-of-sale (POS) Kiosk.

15 March 2022

Company update/payments

Phos to launch SoftPOS in Dominican Republic

Phos, the fintech behind the leading software-only Point of Sale system (SoftPoS), has partnered with AZUL, to launch ‘Tap’, its SoftPoS enabled mobile app in the Dominican Republic and the insular Caribbean.

15 March 2022

Company update/startups

Square to support Codebase's network of startups in Scotland

Today Square, the globally trusted software, payments, and hardware solution for businesses of all sizes, and CodeBase, one of the UK’s largest technology start-up incubators, announced a partnership to provide entrepreneurs with access to Square’s payment ecosystem and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

15 March 2022

Company update/payments

Square loyalty and marketing products land in Ireland

Square has announced two new products in Ireland to help businesses grow their sales and engage their customers with just a few clicks.

10 March 2022

Company update/payments

Fime champions the first fully ‘made in India’ transit payment terminal

Fime has supported QuantumAeon to become the first transit payment terminal vendor to completely design, build, test and certify in India.

09 March 2022

Company update/payments

Worldline enters the Japanese merchant services market

Worldline, a global leader in payments services announced its business expansion to Japan, offering credit card payment processing for merchants nationwide.

03 March 2022

News/startups

Oz business banking startup Zeller hits A$1bn valuation

Australian business banking startup Zeller has hit a A$1 billion valuation thanks to a A$100 million Series B funding round led by Headline.

02 March 2022

Company update/payments

Fairbit SoftPOS certified by Mastercard

Fairbit, a California-based SoftPOS Solution provider, is happy to announce that it received Mastercard Tap on Phone EMV Level 2 certification for the “Fairbit Kernel-on-the-Cloud” product.

02 March 2022

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CIBC invests in merchant acquiring startup Pollinate

CIBC is to invest in Pollinate, a merchant acquiring startup founded by former Monitise chief Alastair Lukies, and to roll out its Tyl payment terminals across canada.

28 February 2022

News/crypto

Hi partners Contis to launch crypto debit card

Crypto exchange and mobile banking platform hi has teamed up with BaaS player Contis on a debit card that lets shoppers pay with their digital assets at over 60 million merchants.

24 February 2022

Company update/payments

Westpac debuts new eftpos fleet

Westpac is making payments better for small businesses and their customers with the release of its next generation EFTPOS terminal and simpler pricing for merchant payments.

21 February 2022

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Wordline reaches multi-billion dollar deal for terminals business

Worldline has reached a deal with Apollo Funds to sell its Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business for up to €2.3 billion.

21 February 2022

Company update/payments

Blackhawk partners LOC Software on touch-free mobile payments

With the growth of digital payments making a sweeping impact on how consumers shop and pay, payments innovator Blackhawk Network and leading retail software firm LOC Software announced a partnership to deliver innovative touch-free mobile payment technologies to retailers.

17 February 2022

Company update/payments

ACI Worldwide to provide merchants with access to 70+ BNPL lenders via a single integration

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software, today announced ACI PayAfter, a new solution that enables merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) globally to provide their customers with a choice of more than 70 BNPL options through a single integration.

15 February 2022