When promoting the payments industry — the web of companies making things work behind the scenes when you swipe your credit card — Atlanta boosters often mention the fact that […]
Tag: fintech
Posted inSpecial Report: Paying Atlanta Forward
Mobile and Global: Atlanta’s Role in the Future of Secure, Connected Payments
First swipe. Then click. Now tap — the verbs describing how we pay for things are changing as commerce evolves. And to hear executives in Atlanta’s payment industry tell it, […]
Posted inSpecial Report: Paying Atlanta Forward
How Georgia Became a Payments Mecca
Deep beneath what’s now the American Cancer Society building in downtown Atlanta is a cluster of giant cables routing bits and bytes throughout the world. Coursing through the pipes, amid […]
Posted inSpecial Report: Paying Atlanta Forward
Payments Sector Driving Innovation in Atlanta: A Conversation With Leading Voices
As part of its upcoming special report on the payment-processing sector in Atlanta, Global Atlanta in November convened a group of experts from the industry to discuss where it’s going and […]
Posted inEconomic Development
Another Payments Firm, InComm, Deepens Roots in Georgia
After searching for greener pastures, another payments firm has decided that staying anchored in Atlanta is the best way to accelerate its growth here and abroad. InComm, which provides prepaid […]
Posted inDiplomacy, Trade
Targeted Trade: Dutch-Flemish Mission Hones in on Fintech, Cybersecurity and Logistics
Some trade delegations take a shotgun approach to opening new markets: pick influential cities and work backwards to find appropriate connections. Not the Netherlands or Flanders, the Belgian region, whose heads […]