Contracts

13 Aug 15 @ 17:00

Danish digital currency processor Coinify has acquired Dutch rival processor Coinzone in order to create a pan-European provider of payment processing for online merchants and payment service providers. The deal... read more

12 Aug 15 @ 17:23

US mobile payments consortium MCX has suffered a blow after US drugstore chain Rite Aid announced activation support for rival products from Google and Apple across its 4,600 outlets across... read more

11 Aug 15 @ 16:45

Cross-border payment transaction processor Earthport has forged an agreement to enable cross-border services for Japan Post Bank, one of Japan’s largest retail banks. The partnership will enable the bank to... read more

11 Aug 15 @ 16:42

Global payment processor Optimal Payments has completed its acquisition of e-commerce and e-money solution provider Skrill Group for €1.1 billion. The acquisition will create a payment and e-wallet provider with... read more

07 Aug 15 @ 16:38

Italian payment service provider SIA and JCB International, a major global payment brand operating in 190 countries around the world, have signed a five-year agreement for the processing of payment... read more

06 Aug 15 @ 16:36

Germany’s Baden-Württembergische Bank (BW-Bank) has extended its contract with global payment processor Worldline for a further seven-year term. The bank came to its decision based on the longstanding collaboration between... read more

03 Aug 15 @ 14:30

Shares in US payment service provider Fidelity National Information Services have soared on speculation that it is in talks to buy financial technology conglomerate SunGard. Private equity-owned SunGard filed for... read more

27 Jul 15 @ 15:38

Erste Group Bank AG (Erste Group) has entered into an agreement with Global Payments to establish a joint venture providing merchant acquiring and payment processing services (merchant payment services) to... read more

24 Jul 15 @ 11:16

Visa Inc. has confirmed it is in talks to reunite with former subsidiary Visa Europe in a deal that would give the global company more scale to compete with rival... read more

21 Jul 15 @ 11:37

First Data has taken its initial step towards a multibillion-dollar listing. First Data filed its paperwork for an IPO on Monday, but gave few details on the upcoming deal. The filing said it could... read more

20 Jul 15 @ 16:02

Thoma Bravo has been speaking to some of its largest private equity investors about putting together a bid for NCR Corp that could value the ATM maker at around $9... read more

16 Jul 15 @ 12:08

CHAPS Co. the UK’s same day high-value electronic payment system, has announced the addition of BNP Paribas as a Direct Participant onto its system.   As a Direct Participant, BNP... read more