The firm is calling it the Plaid Portal and not explicitly tying the launch with a privacy settlement the firm reached on Friday, but the timing is close enough to call.
Instead of joining a major payments provider, Plaid aims to disrupt the Visa, Mastercard, and Amex payment empire. Partners like Square, Dwolla, and new arrivals to the Plaid ecosystem Checkout.com and Marqeta are members of the new program, building payment capabilities for the new age of fintech.
Proposed regulations recently released by the Treasury Department help bring added clarity to participants in the digital asset economy. But the process is far from over. Investors, centralized crypto exchanges, payment processors, some hosted wallet providers, and some decentralized exchanges are the most affected. Miners, stakers and developers are not impacted.
The digital payments ecosystem is rapidly growing in LatAm, and with it, QR code payments are now one of the most used services
Focusing on the cross-border capabilities of P2P payments, Rakuten Viber has partnered with Rapyd to unlock in-app payment options between users.
The webinar with Visa Direct and Checkout.com discussed the rise of real time payments and how pay-to-card solves the pain points for many different verticals.
The central bank of Brazil is gearing up to launch Pix Automatico, a form of direct debit through instant payment system Pix.
When delinquencies rise there is one way to encourage payments: personalized payment links
On Tuesday, Paris-based Web3 payments startup Request Finance launched "Salaries" to help Web3 enterprises automate payroll in crypto.
A partnership between Seedrs, Form3, and LHV UK will allow instant and faster payment processing.