Top PayTech Startup News | September 9 - September 16, 2024
Brex added Xero integration and Brex dashboard and app to their support articles...
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🚀 New Product Offerings
- Brex added Xero integration and Brex dashboard and app to their support articles.
- Brex has launched a new integration with Stripe Atlas, allowing founders to access banking services immediately after incorporation.
- Brex has added NetSuite integration and Brex and Workday HRIS to their support articles.
- Brex has added Sage Intacct integration and Accrued spending to its Accounting page.
- Helcim now emphasizes built-in savings and has added QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations.
- Brex has rebranded and the Boston Celtics chose Brex for corporate cards and spend management.
- Helcim now supports QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations.
- Helcim has added QuickBooks Online and Xero to its third-party integrations.
- SumUp now offers payouts within 3 hours after 2 months of use, with next-day availability until then.
- Adyen has updated its payout and fund transfer processes to be scheduled rather than automatic.
- Stripe has integrated with $HEFE and MoonPay to allow direct credit card purchases of $HEFE.
- Razorpay launched Magic Checkout, offering fast payments, pre-filled details, and fraud protection.
- Klarna launched an Adobe Commerce extension to help Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source brands attract new customers and boost sales.
- Brex launched Brex Assistant Commenting, an AI tool that automates expense review by asking employees for additional context on out-of-policy expenses.
- Razorpay can now be integrated with Google Sheets and Gmail to automate license key delivery upon payment.
- Square introduced the M30 Kitchen Display Screen to streamline POS orders.
- Kriya, the B2B PayLater payments solution, is now available on Stripe.
- Adyen now supports importing payment statements via email to the Money S3 accounting application for €9.95 per month.
- Klarna's BNPL services, integrated with Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, have led to a 20% increase in conversions, a 40% increase in average order value, and a 45% increase in purchase frequency, according to Erin Jaeger, Head of North America at Klarna.
- Brex announced AI-powered automation for invoice processing to reduce errors and speed up payments.
- Klarna launches new Balance and Cashback features in 12 European countries and the US.
- Dragon2000 announced a new card payment integration with Clover on September 12, 2024.
- Stax Payments announced new features for Stax Connect, including compliant surcharging and card present tokenization, to enhance omni-channel strategies for ISVs.
- Adyen now allows customers to donate to one of 140 non-profits at checkout without additional costs.
- U.S. Bank is promoting Paze for cardholders and merchants with seamless integration through Elavon's Converge Payment Gateway for e-commerce.
- Razorpay has developed a robust strategy to handle Chrome's third-party cookie deprecation, ensuring seamless user experiences and enhanced privacy measures.
🤝🏻 New Partnerships and Vendors
- Stripe announced a collaboration with Avalanche, Homium, and Konami.
- Stripe and Shopplaza have partnered to develop Shopplaza Payments, a secure and efficient financial payment product tailored to Shopplaza’s customers’ needs.
- Stripe partnered with TrueLayer to enhance its Pay by Bank service in the UK, aiming to reduce transaction fees and streamline Open Banking payments.
- PayToMe.co partners with Stripe to offer AI-driven financial solutions.
- Elavon partners with PayToMe.co, an award-winning fintech company known for its innovative and ethical approach to financial technology.
- Adyen is piloting new payment terminals in collaboration with S-ryhmä / S Group across multiple locations in Finland, including Prisma Järvenpää and Sokos Kaari.
- Klarna has partnered with Well.ca to offer 'Pay in 4 Installments' and Klarna Express Checkout online, and in-store payment options at over 300 Rexall locations across Canada.
- Klarna has partnered with Stitch Fix to offer flexible payment options for their personalized styling services.
- Adyen has started a partnership with Comwell Hotels to enhance customer experiences and simplify financial reporting.
- Shoplazza announced a new partnership with Stripe to enhance its e-commerce payment platform, unveiled at the Stripe Tour Singapore 2024 – Asia Pacific Regional Event.
- Adyen has partnered with Tide Business to enable business customers to accept card and digital wallet payments.
- Adyen partners with Mastercard and other payment service providers to launch Click to Pay in France.
- IBS Software is partnering with Stripe to enhance payment solutions for iStay users.
- Brex is partnering with Operators Guild for the inaugural Boston launch on October 1.
- Klarna has partnered with UATP to offer flexible payment services, including interest-free Buy Now Pay Later, to airlines.
- Ingo Uytdehaage from Adyen announced they are working with Microsoft and eBay on AI and open sourcing their own models.
- Checkout, represented by Abdullah Alassaf, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Reachware to deliver seamless and efficient payment experiences.
- Brex has updated its accountant directory, replacing Finstackk with Mighty Digits, Sesh with Digits, The Ecommerce Accountants with FintechForce, and Finanshels.com with Trivium, Inc.
- Razorpay achieved a 95% improvement in their CI workflows using PNPM, as detailed by Senior Frontend Engineer Aniket Chaudhary.
- Klarna has quickly integrated OpenAI's new reasoning model o1, enabling employees to freely test and explore AI tools.
- AJ Bell used Stripe Connect to automate fund settlement and enhance payment security, improving the mobile experience for its 432,000 customers managing over £68 billion in assets.
- Heirloom increased employee compliance to 96% using the Brex app for Slack.
- Stripe supported 100% of the transactions for ZEVENT2024, helping raise over €10 million for charity with a platform uptime of 99.9999%.
- Brex helped Inkle save 10-12 hours a week by managing multiple customer accounts with pro access and a value-based partnership.
- Honey & Co. has expanded to five locations in London by using Square for Restaurants to streamline their operations.
- Adyen helped MediaMarkt Business centralize payment management for their monthly insurance policies, improving data collection quality and increasing collection rates.
- Brex helps companies like DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments.
- Brex announced that Heirloom Carbon closes out expenses quickly and achieves 96% policy compliance using the Brex app for Slack.
- Salvador MontesdeOca, Director of IT for Mexico and Latin America at American Eagle Outfitters, shared that they integrated with Adyen in just over two months, optimizing their payment operations.
- Stripe now uses Google's Play Integrity API to enhance app security.
- Adyen helped La Maison du Chocolat overcome online challenges through digital transformation.
- Stripe uses Kafka, Flink, and Pinot for real-time fraud detection and financial monitoring by streaming payment transactions, processing them in real time, and storing the data for instant queries.
💡 Other Notable News
- Brex has acquired Pry Financial.
- Michi Kono has left Stripe as Head of Engineering, Identity and Radar ML to join Garner Health as Chief Technology Officer in the United States.
- Square approved the sale to AT&T.
- Emilie Mathieu has been promoted to General Counsel at Checkout.
- Brex now only allows venture-backed startups or mid-size businesses with at least $400k/month in revenue on their platform.
- Yudiz is entering the fintech sector to compete directly with Pine Labs, Paytm, and CRED.
- Elavon has a mediation appointment scheduled for September 13, 2024.
- Rapyd Ventures is among the investors in Funding Societies.
- Stripe has updated its financial metrics and balances from USD to EUR on its German website.
- Adyen is currently seeking a Head of Marketing, APAC in Singapore.
- Stripe is currently seeking a Commercial Lead with verification in the United States (Remote).
- Alicia Yokubaitis has joined Square as Global SMB Channel in the United States, previously serving as Regional Sales Director at DailyPay, Inc.
- Paul Bousquet has joined Brex as Treasury in the United States, previously serving as Head of Treasury at Reddit, Inc.
- Square is currently hiring for the position of Director of Global Sales Development (Lead Qualification) in the United States.
- Lois Van Der Laan has joined Adyen as Vice President Corporate Communications in the Netherlands, previously serving as Head of Communications & Public Affairs at Google.
- Amanda Harris has left Brex as Senior Director, Support in Canada to join Airtable as Senior Director, Customer Support.
- Thomas Reinholm has joined Square as Audience Strategic Operations in the United States, previously working as GTM Finance at Shopify.
- Adam Elbaz has left Stripe as an Account Executive - Enterprise Platform Partnerships in the United States to join Bilt Rewards as Vice President - Payments.
- Elizabeth Bauzá has joined Checkout as Deputy General Counsel in the United Kingdom, previously serving in the same role at another company.
- Checkout is currently hiring a Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) in the United Arab Emirates.
- Brex is currently hiring for the position of Assistant General Counsel, Employment in the United States.
- Square is currently hiring for the position of Product Lead, Food & Beverage Service in the United States.
- Stripe will be at Dreamforce next week at Booth #1311 to showcase their collaboration with Salesforce.
- Rapyd's CEO and co-founder, Arik Shtilman, has been named one of the Top 10 FinTech Founders by FinTech Magazine.
- Razorpay hosted the Razorpay Rize Founders Circle 2024, an active community event for entrepreneurs.
- Stripe's Irish subsidiary reported a €1bn increase in revenues.
- Checkout.com reports a significant shift toward digital payments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with a rise in online shoppers and the popularity of Buy Now, Pay Later options.
- Square won an award at DMA2024 for their marketing campaign in collaboration with Lovin Dublin and Wavemaker Ireland.
- Square offers €1000 in commission-free sales for new accounts activated through a referral link.
- Checkout is sponsoring the MRC's Fraud Essentials course, available for free to MRC members until September 2025.
- Tjalling van den Burger, VP of Enterprise Sales at Adyen, will speak at the Future Hospitality Summit on October 2nd about integrated payment solutions in the hospitality industry.
- Square will be at FSTEC next week with a booth (#631) and a speaking session featuring Gioia's Deli owners and Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square.
- SumUp has been shortlisted for the Best Fintech Lending Solution Award at the Fintech Awards 2024.
- Adyen will participate as Diamond Sponsors at PyData Amsterdam 2024, featuring talks by experts Maico Timmerman, Vitalie Spinu, and Laura Israel.
- Stripe is launching Stripe Delivery Centers in Mexico City to support users and internal teams at scale, as shared by Isabella Nadal, Senior Recruiter at Stripe.
- Stripe is hiring for its Risk Operations Team in Mexico City to investigate fraud and enhance risk detection strategies.
- Clover will have a booth at the Military Entrepreneurship Forum on September 17th.
- Stripe's Data Orchestration team showcased their expertise on Apache Airflow workflows at the Airflow Summit in San Francisco.
- Square will co-host an exclusive networking event at the FSTec 2024 game on September 17th at Globe Life Field.
- Adyen showcased seamless cross-channel shopper journeys in a live demo at the SAP Experience Center in New York, highlighting their partnership with SAP.
- Stripe was recognized as 'ISV Partner of the Year' at Spryker Excite and announced the release of the Stripe Marketplace Connector.
- Yui Kanazawa has joined Stripe as the APAC Regional Lead - Global Deal Management.
- Square will participate in the Fast Casual Executive Summit 2024 to discuss innovative customer engagement and operational solutions.
- Adyen is co-hosting the 'Girls in Conflict' event with Plan Nederland on October 9 in Amsterdam.
- Checkout reports that consumers in the MENA region are increasingly using digital payment methods instead of cash.
- Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras, co-founders of Brex, are among the youngest billionaires in Brazil who are not heirs.
- Square's Channel Sales team, now led by Alan Amerault, has doubled in size and is actively engaging in global events to strengthen partnerships and change the company's perception.
- Chris Burgess, Vice President of Enterprise Engineering at Checkout, announced his departure from the company on September 13.
- Checkout will participate in Forex Expo Dubai 2024.
- Stripe Europe reported a $1.1 billion loss last year due to a significant increase in share-based payments to employees following a liquidity event in March 2023.
- Klarna will attend Paris Retail Week 2024 on September 18.
- Catch Nicolas Beique, CEO/Founder of Helcim, on CBC Radio Canada (French) on September 13.
- Elavon will attend the WSAA conference in Las Vegas next week to discuss growth opportunities for ISO/ISV businesses.
- Marjorie Junio-Read, Chief Financial Officer at Helcim, will be a featured speaker at The Peak’s Bet On Canada Summit in Calgary on September 17th.
- Stax Payments introduced Jeremy Krahl as the new SVP of Business Development.
- Stripe is partnering with Slush to support startups with financial infrastructure and will host several events for founders and operators at Slush 2024.
- Checkout.com is a finalist for Momentum ITSMA's Marketing Excellence Awards 2024 in the Scaling ABM Programs and Small and Medium Business categories.
- SumUp is currently dealing with a phishing attack as reported on September 12.
- Harshil Mathur of Razorpay stated that Indian FinTechs can replicate their success story in South Asia.
- Checkout will participate in the Dubai AI & Web3 Festival.
- Klarna won the Net Zero Award at the Global Sustainability & ESG Awards 2024 for its ambitious 2040 net zero goal to decarbonize its entire value chain.
- Adyen will be at DMEXCO in Hall 7, booth C016, from September 18-19, with a networking event on September 18.
- Olivier, who joined Adyen 7 years ago, now leads Operations for their new Bengaluru Tech Hub in India.
- Sarel Tal, VP EMEA at Rapyd, will speak on a panel about sustainable expansion and funding strategies at the Western States Acquirers Association event in Las Vegas on September 19.
- Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar from Razorpay participated as angel investors in Zivy's $1.2 million pre-seed round.
- Brex CTO Cosmin Nicolaescu will speak at the GenLA event on September 25.
- Adyen will join Google Pay Live on September 18th to demonstrate how to accept Google Pay on the Web.
- Square will participate in The Great Debate at FintechNation 24 on September 20.
- Adyen will showcase new payment solutions and host a workshop with Caudalie at Paris Retail Week from September 17-20.
- Elavon has been nominated for the Environment and Sustainability award at the Arklow & District Chamber of Commerce Ball.
- Marcos Morais Monteiro has started as Head of IT Infrastructure at Helcim.
- Checkout's latest analysis shows a 200% increase in BNPL payments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia between July and August 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.
- Brex won the Most Impactful AI-Based Solution at the 2024 Finovate Awards.
- On September 10, Rapyd's CCO Dr. Shlomit Wagman spoke at CyberTech NYC about AI and fraud in financial markets and payments.
- Rapyd will showcase its global acquiring solutions and host a speaking session by Sarel Tal, VP EMEA, at the Western States Acquirers Association event in Las Vegas on September 3-4.
- Igno Uytdehaage from Adyen emphasized the importance of execution at the All-In Summit.
- Adyen's Co-CEO stated that both Adyen and Stripe are heavily investing in technology to transform the financial sector.
- Brex President Karandeep will join a fireside chat with Plaid President Jennifer Taylor at SaaStr on September 12.
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