Berlin’s OptioPay to expand payments tech with €7m seed funding
Berlin-based payment solution software business OptioPay has raised €7m in seed funding.
Asia set for e-commerce boom
A new report by market research firm TNS identifies five triggers that acted together as catalysts for the dramatic changes in consumer behaviour that led to China’s “explosive” e-commerce growth. Read More: www.phnompenhpost.com
Unified ecommerce solution boosts sales
Among those midmarket business sellers, considering a new ecommerce investment, 62 per cent are thinking about a unified, single-stack solution. Read More: www.itproportal.com
PromisePay picks up $10m of VC, entrepreneur funding
Australian online marketplace startup PromisePay has picked up $10m of new capital from backers including Cultivation Capital, Rampersand and Reinventure.
IK taps Small Cap Fund I to back Nordic payment solution...
European buyout house IK Investment Partners will use its IK Small Cap I Fund to buy a majority stake in Sweden-based payment solution provider OS Group, or OpenSolution.
AMMA leads $9m round in P2P payments provider Tapp Commerce
Australia-based AMMA Private Equity has led a $9m financing round in Finnish mobile payment app Tapp Commerce.
Starbucks coffee launches Mobile Payments in China
As part of its continuous investments to deliver an exceptional customer experience in China, Starbucks today announced the launch of the Starbucks mobile payment. Read more: www.streetinsider.com
Cross-Border payments FinTech Airwallex funding
Airwallex lands $3M to support cross-border payments platform. Read more: www.pymnts.com
YapStone processes $15b in electronic payment volume
While investors are starting to talk about a tech bubble. Read more: www.huffingtonpost.com<
Peer-to-peer travel money startup WeSwap raises £6.5m
It's the second funding deal for a foreign exchange app linked to a MasterCard today. Read more: uk.businessinsider.com