In the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, luck was the last thing the Irish government was relying on to help its financial technology companies gain an audience in Atlanta, the electronic payments hub of the U.S. Enterprise Ireland, a government agency that supports Irish firms going abroad, led a group of seven Ireland-based […]
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Global Payments Donation Software Launches in Canada
A Global Payments Inc. software platform used by nonprofits to process donations has launched in Canada. The Atlanta-based company late last month expanded the reach of its Greater Giving platform to the U.S.’s neighbor to the north, helping nonprofits there simplify fundraising via events and online payments. The cloud-base platform has processed $6 billion in […]
Alpharetta to Asia: Atlanta Fintech Firm DataSeers to Accelerate Growth With India Office
After ringing in the new year, metro Atlanta-based DataSeers is wasting no time getting started on its resolutions. Just in the last two months, it has checked off two major milestones: graduating from the Tech Alpharetta incubator in December, followed by gaining recognition in January as one of the Technology Association of Georgia’s 40 most innovative firms. […]
Former British PM David Cameron to Headline Atlanta Payments Summit This Week
As if there needed to be an exclamation point to a high-level payments forum between Atlanta and the United Kingdom this week, the event will be headlined by former British Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron will speak at a dinner Wednesday at the Georgia Aquarium, providing further proof that the Payments 20 (P20) conference […]
Atlanta Enjoys Perfect Storm for British Tech Investment
For the last two years, a perfect storm has been brewing across the Atlantic, whipping up ideal conditions for new British technology investment in Atlanta. Just as the Georgia capital got serious about promoting its payments prowess in London, the world’s financial center, the United Kingdom as a whole decided (narrowly) that its future looked brighter outside […]
InComm’s Acquisition of Some Amex Products Highlights Georgia’s Importance as a FinTech Hub
Gov. Nathan Deal announced on April 24 that InComm Inc., the Atlanta-based financial technology company, acquired the distribution rights of American Express’s prepaid reloadable and gift card products. The governor highlighted the creation of 150 jobs in Georgia and $20 million in capital investments while expressing his interest in learning more about the potential impact […]
FleetCor Recognized for Major Canada Deal
FleetCor Technologies Inc., a Norcross company that helps customers manage fuel costs through payment cards, has been honored for its 2017 acquisition of a Canadian firm. The company bought Cambridge Global Payments for $690 million last year as a way to beef up its cross-border payment processing capabilities, the latest in a series of acquisitions, investments […]
Q&A: How Atlanta’s P20 Conference Can Drive Global Fintech Innovation
Editor’s note: Atlanta may be the center of the payments universe, but the rest of the world hasn’t necessarily gotten the memo. A few local groups are trying to change that, acting as the industry’s modern-day Galileos to show that transactions really do revolve around the Southeast’s economic capital. In the process, the Atlanta-based American Transaction Processors Coalition has […]
‘Davos of Payments’ to Highlight Atlanta-London Fintech Partnership in October
A summit designed to preach the power of electronic payments is coming as planned to Georgia, the hub for some 70 percent of such transactions in the U.S. The P20 — short for Payments 20 — held its inaugural meeting in London last fall, bringing together top business leaders, government officials and regulators to tackle issues […]
BitPay’s $30M Raise Will Help Fuel Asia Expansion
BitPay, the Atlanta-based fintech company that bridges merchants and cryptocurrencies, has raised a $30 million Series B round that will fuel its expansion into Asia and into new avenues like supply-chain payments. The investment was led by Aquiline Technology Growth, based in New York. The fund was drawn to the company’s rapid revenue growth and […]
