All articles by Robert Prendergast

Robert Prendergast

ICBA Payments partners with Pidgin to empower community banks

Pidgin’s will help ICBA assist community banks to accelerate the adoption of instant payments and enhance service delivery to their customers

Surecomp and Visa collaborate to enhance trade finance and cross-border payments

The partnership brings together Surecomp’s cloud-based trade finance platform RIVO and Visa B2B Connect

Airwallex partners with GoCardless to strengthen direct debit offering

Through the partnership, Airwallex now connects to the GoCardless’ global bank payment network

Stripe selects Fifth Third to power embedded financial services

Newline by Fifth Third will power Stripe Treasury, a service enabling software platforms to offer embedded financial accounts to customers

Polish payment service BLIK arrives in Slovakia

Users of the Tatra banka VIAMO application will soon have access to the BLIK payment method in Slovak online stores

NTT DATA partners with Lynx Tech

The partnership will help ensure banks and other financial institutions across the UK and Europe have access to Lynx’s AI-powered solutions

Key2Pay broadens its reach in Latin America

Key2Pay will now offer more payment options to customers in Mexico to match the market’s needs

Ireland card payments market to surpass $100bn in 2024, forecasts GlobalData

Debit cards are the preferred card type among the Irish consumers, accounting for 84.4% of the total card payment value in 2023

Airwallex partners with Float to deliver fast, cost-effective bill payments to Canadian businesses

Float’s new Airwallex-powered Bill Pay product expands its end-to-end payment solution for Canadian businesses

Paysafe partners with Alchemy Pay to expand its customers’ payment options

Partnership enables Alchemy Pay to access Paysafe’s suite of payment products for consumers to use their fiat funds to purchase crypto across 130 markets