PayPal’s iZettle acquisition raises UK competition concerns
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority poking around.
iZettle
PayPal to buy iZettle for $2.2bn ahead of IPO
Largest acquisition in its history.
Top fintech stories this week – 11 May 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Swedish payments firm iZettle plans IPO
IPO expected to be completed this year.
iZettle squares up to Square with e-commerce platform launch
“Biggest product launch since 2011.”
Church of England converts congregations to cashless
Payments heaven is a place on Earth… or at least in England.
Fintech funding round-up: 13 December 2017
This round-up features Finstar, State Street, FRISS and iZettle.
Fintech funding round-up: 19 September 2017
Four stories in one for a fast fintech funding round-up. Features Ellevest, iZettle, GoCardless and MarketInvoice. New York-based fintech Ellevest, led by former Merrill Lynch CEO Sallie Krawcheck, has got itself $34.6 million funding. Ellevest is a bit different from the rest as it was founded to provide an investing experience to “help women meet […]
Santander and iZettle launch in Brazil
Swedish payment company iZettle and Spain’s Banco Santander have launched a new ‘social payments’ system in Brazil, which is designed to help small businesses take card payments with Apple and Android smartphones and tablets.
The limits of the mobile revolution
Senior financial executives have clashed over the extent to which mobile payments technology has failed to reach its potential – and the best way to fix it.
Kalixa Group unveils “disruptive” payments tools
Payments company Kalixa Group has launched a set of tools including an mPOS, e-wallet and acceptance kit, which it says will disrupt the global payments market in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
iZettle and Santander “democratise” cheap card payments
Spanish bank Banco Santander has signed a deal with iZettle, a fledgling Swedish payments specialist that focuses on ‘social’ payments. The two companies plan to distribute mini chip-card readers to customers, so that they can accept card payments with smartphones and tablets.
