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Payment systems and financial-technology businesses.
Fintech & payments
Apple announced Tap to Pay on iPhone on February 8, 2022, outlining a US rollout that would let merchants accept contactless payments without a separate terminal.
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The financing supported a service designed to let merchants accept card payments through a phone, without an additional payment device.
Fintech & payments
The expansion broadened the program's intended audience. It did not make invitation-based access automatic or establish that every founder had the same business needs.
Fintech & payments
Western Union announced WU Pay on March 22, 2012, describing a checkout option that would let U.S. shoppers pay through their bank accounts or with cash at agent locations.
Fintech & payments
The Series E valued Tabby above its 2023 financing level and supported plans for spending accounts, payments and money-management products beyond checkout lending.
Fintech & payments
The consumer percentage changed, while PayPal merchants faced a different adjustment to their minimum and maximum fees.
Fintech & payments
The financing's purpose mattered as much as the headline amount: it was not described as capital needed to keep the business running.
Fintech & payments
The proposition put a bank's services behind a keyboard button, rather than turning a messaging service into the customer's bank.
Fintech & payments
The deal added children's money-management tools to Acorns' offering. Later product integration was a separate step, not an acquisition-day feature.
Fintech & payments
The fund announcement described a broader support team, not a guarantee of favorable regulation or profitable investments.
Fintech & payments
The company described matching institutions with excess deposits to those seeking funding, not a retail promise of unlimited insurance or guaranteed returns.
Fintech & payments
The funding targeted a layer of analytics and action tools above existing payment processors.
