The Fintech Times

JANUARY 10, 2025

By involving the issuing bank early in the transaction authorisation process, network tokens shift the liability from the merchant to the issuer. Token Service Providers (TSPs) must develop value-added services, such as real-time transaction analysis tools, to aid merchants in monitoring and reducing their fraud rate.

Research

The Payments Association

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Companies like Stripe and Adyen are captivating merchants with cutting-edge payment solutions beyond basic credit card processing. As fintechs’ superior payment solutions lure away more merchants, banks stand to lose processing revenue and all-important settlement deposits. As a result, fintech companies are rapidly gaining ground.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

JUNE 24, 2025

RS2 has partnered with Visa to launch a joint end-to-end payments infrastructure, combining Visa’s front-end services with RS2’s back-end processing to offer a scalable, cloud-native platform for banks, fintechs and merchants globally.

Global Payments

Finextra

JULY 5, 2025

In 2024, Stripe processed about $1.4 Stripe has been aggressively courting larger enterprises (even Amazon inked a deal in 2023 to have Stripe process a significant portion of its payments across the US, Europe, and Canada). This “single platform” approach can improve authorization rates and reduce hops in the transaction process.

Product

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 8, 2025

Under the partnership, Network will provide Money Fellows with its Digital Payments as a Service platform with value added services including advanced fraud prevention, fully secure payment functionality, as well as a full suite of back office managed services.

Digital Payments

Finovate

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Live Oak Bank has enhanced its commercial and small business banking services by partnering with Finzly for its Fedwire solution. Finzly’s technology enables 100% straight-through processing (STP) and will help ensure the bank is compliant with upcoming ISO 20022 regulations.

FedWire

Finextra

JUNE 14, 2025

Over the past decade, the company has aggressively diversified – expanding into new payment rails, new markets, and new value-added services. Mastercard operates one of the world’s fastest payment processing networks, acting as the intermediary for electronic funds transfers on debit, credit, and prepaid cards.

Visa

Stax

MAY 23, 2025

Payment processing: Authorizing and settling transactions in real time. That opens the door to revenue streams like: Payment processing fees Earn a share of every transaction processed through your platform. Subscription upgrades Unlock premium features tied to payment tools that drive more value for users.

ISVS

Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2025

Issuer Solutions Strengthens FIS Position as Globally Scaled Fintech Leader to Large Financial Institutions Issuer Solutions is a global market leader in credit processing, with a client presence in over 75 countries. Ferris continued, We are pleased to fully monetize our Worldpay stake at an attractive valuation.

Issuers

Fintech Finance

MARCH 10, 2025

Unlike traditional acquirers, these specialised providers offer customised payment processing, compliance solutions and fraud prevention. Our latest report highlights the urgent need for acquirers to modernise their systems to deliver next generation value-added services and ensure compliance.

Acquirers

The Fintech Times

MARCH 12, 2025

Through three separate partnerships, Mastercard appears to be enhancing its focus on the UAE and surrounding Middle East region, with plans to simplify access to finance , enhance payment processes and bolster financial literacy. Khalil , division president, East Arabia, at Mastercard.”We

Visa

Fintech Finance

MARCH 7, 2025

As part of this collaboration, Network will provide expertise and support for solutions including transaction processing, card management, fraud prevention, APIs sandbox, reconciliation and settlement, and online access for Airtel users. It currently serves 50 countries across the MEA region, including more than 40 African markets.

Fraud Prevention

The Fintech Times

JUNE 20, 2025

Nordic challenger bank, Lunar , will now look to start Visa card processing with Pismo ‘s cloud native solutions, to develop and launch new products and solutions faster and more independently. Commenting on the news, Vishal Dalal , CEO at Pismo, says, “Speed is a key market differentiator.

Value Added Service

Fintech Finance

JULY 27, 2025

This growing popularity is reinforced by positive experiences among businesses already accepting digital payments, over 80% are satisfied with the card acceptance process, more than three-fourths report a positive impact on revenue, and more than two-thirds report the same for footfall.

Micro-Entry

Stax

MARCH 17, 2025

With Stax Connect, ISVs can tap into multiple revenue-sharing opportunities, from transaction fees to value-added services. How to Get Started Stax Connect is hosting a webinar to walk you through the integration process, share best practices, and answer any questions.

ISVS

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

From an open finance and data monetisation perspective, CBI has developed several value-added services (VAS) that render its clients even more competitive. Tackling fraud CBIs response to increasing fraud and misdirection of payments is evident in a range of services, such as: Check IBAN, Name Check, CBI GO and CBI Safe Trade.

Finance

Fintech Review

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Backed by top-tier investors such as SoftBank, Accel, and VEF, JUSPAY provides full-stack orchestration, checkout experience, 3DS authentication, payments infrastructure, and value-added services for enterprise merchants, as well as end-to-end payments acceptance and real-time payments infrastructure for leading banks.

Value Added Service

The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

Carlos Albo Wenalyze The evolution of open banking to open finance Open finance is fundamentally restructuring the financial services landscapeexpanding data-sharing from payments into credit, investments, insurance, and pensions. Open banking principles are also embedded in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which processed $2.2

Finance

Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Lunar migrates to Visa-owned cloud-native platform Pismo; adopts Wise platform Nordic challenger bank Lunar is to begin processing Visa cards over a cloud-native core banking platform provided by Pismo. “Switching to Pismo means we can move faster and deliver better experiences to our users across the Nordics," he says.

Multi-Currency

The Payments Association

JULY 11, 2025

The global POS market has reached a pivotal moment, with total POS transaction values projected to reach US$17 trillion in 2024 , and is expected to grow to $21.2 This transformation extends far beyond processing payments. trillion by 2028 as hardware systems evolve from isolated terminals to integrated business intelligence platforms.

Point-of-Sale (POS)

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In this week’s In Profile, we chat with Thomas Gillan , CEO of BR-DGE, to explore the company’s approach to simplifying payment processes for large-scale merchants and to discuss the advancing role of payment orchestration technology.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Payments Association

JANUARY 22, 2025

The EU’s smart borders initiative exemplifies the innovative applications of digital identity in border control, using automated processes and biometric verification. When used in an onboarding flow, digital ID can make the process frictionless and secure; better for the merchant and consumer experience.

Security

The Fintech Times

MAY 14, 2025

The new PXP POS solution provides high-quality security without compromise, processing data securely, and allowing merchants to focus on growing their business without worrying about payment protection. It is ready to use almost immediately, with merchants only needing to complete a simple one-step activation process.

Payment Solutions

Finovate

JUNE 11, 2025

A self-described “technology-enabled insurance company,” Slide leverages AI and Big Data to hyper-personalize, optimize, and streamline the insurance process. To date, the company has served more than 90,000 customers and processed more than 20,000 successful claims. The company anticipates a valuation of as much as $2.12

Risk Management

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

PYMNTS got that answer, among others, in our just-published The Key To Optimizing Merchant Services Report , done in collaboration with technology firm Endava. . The answer to that cliff-hanger opener, incidentally, is value-added services (VAS) — the growing assortment of benefits that MSPs provide to their merchant clients.

Value Added Service

Fintech Finance

MARCH 27, 2025

a leading provider of innovative payment solutions, is pleased to announce a technology integration with Cybersource , an open, network-agnostic ecosystem from Visa Acceptance Solutions , that offers modular payments services that can be linked to an app store for sellers. QorPay Inc.,

Process

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Nearly 90 percent of MSPs consider offering value-added services (VAS) such as alternative payment acceptance and data analytics to be “very” or “extremely” important to their success. However, it’s another to offer the services that add genuine value and possess the processing infrastructure to support them.

MSPS

BlueSnap

OCTOBER 7, 2024

BlueSnap Global Payments for NetSuite supports multi-entity businesses with effortless efficiency, increased authorization rates, lower costs, unified payment analytics and reporting, and value-added services on a global scale – all through a single app with one account.

Global Payments

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The strategic agreement will see barq leverage Mastercard Gateway technology to further equip its merchants and consumers around the Kingdom with greater access to a wide range of value-added services — responsive, personalised solutions that cater to their unique needs and preferences.

Agreements

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Visa said its acquisition of YellowPepper, in turn, could help to reduce the cost by issuers and processors to launch new financial services, as well as paring back on the amount of time needed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Network International , the digital commerce enabler across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has joined forces with Huawei , the global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices, to provide end-to-end card processing and managed payment services for financial services customers.

Value Added Service

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In payments processing, price matters, but service matters more. Could it be that the human touch is what matters most in processing — but has fallen by the wayside? I understand value-added services to a degree,” said the CEO, “but when you start adding so many services, what is your core, then?

Process

Fintech Finance

JULY 11, 2024

All active participants in the Swiss customer payment transactions system via SIC are expected to be capable of processing incoming customer payments instantaneously by the end of 2026. Finastra’s 24/7 instant payment service, already being used by several banks, includes real-time sanctions screening, with transactions processed in seconds.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging services, announced Wednesday (Sept. Over the next two years, the Belgium-based cooperative said the initiative will provide transaction management services. The new approach promises to create new value-added services to support business growth.

Cross-Border

The Fintech Times

JULY 7, 2024

Worldline , the global payment services provider, is expanding its strategic partnership with BKN301 , the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) fintech company, enabling it to handle issuing and acquiring technical processing activities. The platforms process over 3.5

Process

Fintech Finance

JUNE 25, 2024

The strategic alliance aims to leverage Network’s expertise to provide a fully-fledged payments processing solution to support the digital transition. The scope of services includes a comprehensive range of products and services from transaction processing, card hosting and management, as well as value-added services.

Finance

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Solidgate , a payment processing platform that empowers businesses to scale across borders, announced its partnership with Nova Post — the Ukrainian leader in express delivery and logistics — to provide safe and seamless payment services for both businesses and individuals.

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