As examples the companies give, it will merge First Data's digital merchant account enrollment capabilities can be integrated into Fiserv's digital banking solutions that serve thousands of financial institutions.
"They're basically digital arms merchants".
He departed in March and has since become a Special Advisor to Snap Inc and taken an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title at leading digital media merchant bank LionTree.
Flux, the London fintech that has built a software platform to offer merchants digital receipts, loyalty, card-linked offers and analytics, continues to sign new partnerships in a bid to solve its 'chicken and egg' problem.
Zong provides a seamless payments product that could help improve conversions for online merchants and digital goods (PayPal processed $3.4 billion in transactions for digital goods in 2010), and in the end, frictionless online payments is PayPal's bread and butter.
It was also interesting to see PayPal enabling bitcoin transactions for merchants selling digital goods.
Unlike Square's wallet-like Card Case, which provides digital "tabs" for local merchants, ZipPay's wallet supports all major credit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.
Behind the scene, Samsung uses NFC, fingerprint verification and digital tokenization so that merchants can't see your credit card number.
After hinting at it a few weeks ago when Braintree enabled Bitcoin-based transactions for PayPal developers, the company is now enabling Bitcoin across the PayPal network for merchants of digital goods.
