Jordan McKee
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Head of Fintech Research & Advisory @ S&P Global | Payments & Fintech | Tweets/opinions are my own | Forbes column here: https://t.co/YlBHNk7EoH
mobile & payments
Joined March 2011
Went back into the archives to see what I had for pictures at my first #Money2020 (2013)…ISIS on stage, shoe shines by LevelUp and PayPal’s big QR code release. What a time to be alive.
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Xero to Buy Melio for Initial $2.5 Billion in U.S. Growth Play. It will fund the largest acquisition in its history with a $1.2 billion institutional placement and draw upon a $400 million unsecured credit facility and $600 million of existing cash.
wsj.com
The Australia-listed accounting-software provider Xero will partly fund the largest acquisition in its 19-year history with a $1.2 billion institutional placement.
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Perplexity has partnered with PayPal to power agentic commerce across its Perplexity Pro platform. Starting this summer in the U.S., consumers can check out with PayPal or Venmo when they ask Perplexity to find products, book travel, or buy tickets.
newsroom.paypal-corp.com
Smart shopping comes to Perplexity as PayPal powers intelligent, in-flow shopping via Agentic AI.
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CFPB Intends to Ask Court to Vacate Biden-Era Open Banking Rule
news.bloomberglaw.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to ask a federal judge in Kentucky to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing customers to freely share their bank and credit card account details with...
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Corpay Invests Alongside TPG to Acquire AvidXchange. Makes $500 million minority investment in take-private transaction with option to acquire 100%. Cash transaction that values AvidXchange at $2.2 billion
globenewswire.com
AvidXchange stockholders to receive $10.00 per share in cash...
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Walmart: “We are on track to offer instant payments later this year”
digitaltransactions.net
A test this past September of a real-time pay by bank payments option inside the Walmart app indicat
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Visa: Tink has reached a milestone of over 10,000 merchants using Tink's Pay by Bank capability via more than 10 European PSP partnerships.
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Visa: Nearly 50% of our e-commerce transactions globally are tokenized.
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Visa: Tap to Pay penetration is now at 76% globally with the U.S. passing 60% for the first time.
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Mastercard is paying $300 million for a 3% stake in the cross-border business of Corpay.
finextra.com
Mastercard is paying $300 million for a three per cent stake in the cross-border business of corporate payments outfit Corpay.
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Mastercard unveils the launch of its Agentic Payments Program, Mastercard Agent Pay - agentic payments technology to power commerce in the age of AI.
mastercard.com
Mastercard will work with Microsoft and other leading AI platforms to scale agentic commerce
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Thunes Raises USD 150 Million in Series D. Now profitable , Thunes plans to leverage this capital to supercharge its expansion in the United States.
thunes.com
Thunes raises USD 150 million in Series D funding, led by Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners, to expand in the U.S. and enhance its global payment network.
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Global Payments Announces Agreements to Acquire Worldpay and Divest Issuer Solutions. It will divest its Issuer Solutions business to FIS for $13.5 billion and acquire Worldpay from GTCR and FIS for a net purchase price of $22.7 billion
investors.globalpayments.com
Simplifies business model and positions Global Payments as a leading pure play commerce solutions provider for merchants of all sizes with…...
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eBay announces global payment acquiring partnership with
prnewswire.co.uk
/PRNewswire/ -- eBay, a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world, today announced its strategic partnership with...
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Visa Offers Apple Roughly $100 Million to Take Over Credit Card From Mastercard - WSJ
wsj.com
Visa, Amex and Mastercard are all competing to be the network for the tech giant’s credit card.
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Klarna officially files for U.S. IPO
cnbc.com
Klarna filed its paperwork with the SEC on Friday to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol KLAR.
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Rapyd closes $610 million PayU acquisition . To finance the acquisition, Rapyd raised $500 million, primarily through equity, with a minor portion sourced from debt.
thepaypers.com
Rapyd raises USD 500 million to purchase the European fintech PayU from Duch firm Proses for USD 610 million.
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Plaid is working with Goldman Sachs on a sale of existing shares that could raise about $300 million to $400 million. via @markets.
bloomberg.com
Plaid Inc., a financial technology firm best known for facilitating communication between startups and traditional banks, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on a sale of existing shares,...
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Fintech Klarna targets US IPO in April . Valuation of up to $15bn would make it one of the biggest listings this year.
ft.com
Valuation of up to $15bn would make it one of the biggest listings this year
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