“Spreedly, the provider of a secure, agnostic, and flexible platform that welcomes all payments participants, today announced it has launched a new professional services organization. This group is devoted to supporting customers and partners via payments solutions, including systems and technology implementations, data migrations, integrations, and consulting and education.”

“Spreedly, the provider of a secure, agnostic, and flexible platform that welcomes all payments participants, today announced a new initiative with Visa. The organizations have launched a program to foster and grow the adoption of network tokenization via Spreedly’s Payments Orchestration solution throughout Latin America. The joint work will kick off in various countries including a project in Argentina, and soon expand into other markets across the region.”

“Even now, after the passage of the industry-changing Farm Bill, few domestic payment gateways and merchant providers allow CBD in any form, even topical only products as benign as a hemp soap. As the newly refreshed Organic Payment Gateways site states, “traditional, US-based credit card processing for topical CBD sites are available, you simply need to know the right players in the industry. The process can be confusing due to the layers of brokers and resellers involved, but with our guidance, you can accept payments for topical CBD.”

“For retailers targeting Chinese consumers specifically — which is a dynamic and fast-growing sector in markets like luxury goods, fashion and travel and hospitality — marketing programs driven by payment companies can provide an edge to precisely target this affluent buying segment. More importantly, it can be done in a context with which these consumers are familiar and comfortable, making it even more effective. The Chinese consumer opportunity is impressive: last year, Chinese travelers took a record 130 million overseas trips and spent a whopping $115 billion on-the-go. In total, globetrotting Chinese consumers — buoyed by a growing middle class with larger disposable incomes, as well as relaxed international travel restrictions — represented 21% of the entire world’s tourism spending.”

“Leading U.S. payments provider Mazooma announces launch of their Mazooma Gateway, a platform that will provide access to its full suite of verified bank payments through a single API integration. Mazooma’s two premier payment methods–eCheck Select and OBT–will be available to igaming and sports betting operators in the U.S., and will be showcased at ICE North America in Boston this week.”

“BlueSnap, an online payments technology company, today announced the global availability of Google Pay™ in the All-in-One Payment Platform. With this integration customers across Australia, Europe and North America can now leverage Google Pay to accept payments made via online and mobile checkout, marketplaces, subscriptions, invoices and virtual terminals.”

“On their new CBD and supplement focused site, Organic Payment Gateways explores the fundamental points a CBD site owner should consider when they need a payment gateway in order to sell online. Even in late 2018, few domestic payment gateways and merchant service providers are willing to give CBD website owners an account; however, as the new Organic Payment Gateways site states, “payment gateway options for CBD do exist, you simply need to know the right players in the industry.””

“his unprecedented solution enables NMI partners to deliver a simplified payments platform that meets today’s expectations for seamless recognition across all merchant points of engagement, including in-store, mobile, online and self-service. Using a unified token, NMI is able to deliver a singular view of customer and payment data that can be used to develop cross-channel solutions, generate new revenue streams and improve customer experience.”

“Consumers today expect the way they pay for products and services to be effortless, instant and secure. Whereas the market was once dominated by just a few banks and a handful of payment companies, now there are more like 500 more agile companies and new payment technologies which have revolutionized the industry. All this change is creating a perfect storm where we could see a new type of service provider, a Payments Facilitator, that will offer acquiring, a payment gateway and a whole range of value added services.”