Новости за 10.03.2021

In today’s top news, venture capitalists are swarming to back tech startups, and SoFi bought a San Francisco-based community bank for $22.3 million. Plus, J.P. Morgan is bringing on former HSBC exec Jeremy Balkin to lead FinTech and innovation for wholesale payments. Venture Capitalists Rush to Back Tech Startups There is increasing competition to back […]

Payments and immediate gratification are becoming joined in ways that reflect the direct and instant trends that have been evident since early last year. A slew of recent account-to-account announcements spotlight how A2A, as it is known for short, can take several paths toward shaking up consumer and corporate transactions. And several paths, it seems, […]

New York-based FinTech Tassat Group LLC has appointed Ron Totaro to the position of chief executive officer, according to a Tuesday (March 9) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. “[Totaro’s] leadership will be instrumental as the company begins widening the reach of the TassatPay® digital payments platform across the banking industry. His expertise in scaling companies and driving […]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is selling over 300 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) spotlighting moments during this year’s Super Bowl and the other three Super Bowls of his career, according to a CNBC report on Tuesday (March 9). The NFTs — hand-illustrated by Brazilian art studio Black Madre — will feature Gronkowski’s football career […]

Gone shopping lately? It’s a trick question now, with the act of shopping being so radically redefined. Nowhere is this more evident than PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps. When we peer into the land of the giant shopping apps it’s often a game of inches with brands elbowing each other for lucrative chart positions. […]

As London-based meal delivery service Deliveroo gears up to go public, its revenues are plummeting. Even as the United Kingdom’s lockdowns have incentivized many consumers to order food delivery more often, with Deliveroo CEO Will Shu estimating the pandemic “accelerated consumer adoption of these delivery services by about two to three years,” according to CNBC, the company […]