Payments company Venmo has grown significantly from its founding by Iqram Magdon-Ismail and Andrew Kortina; it was acquired for $26 million by payment processor Braintree and is now owned by PayPal after an $800 million acquisition in 2013; through acquisitions the firm's payment processes have evolved; in 2016 the firm transacted $18 billion; now as a PayPal company it has been plugged into PayPal's compliance infrastructure for tracking fraudulent payments and settlements; as a PayPal company it has also been able to offer new services and its executive team has been integrated with PayPal helping the company to develop new market positioning. Source
J.D. Power's 2024 U.S. Merchant Services Satisfaction Study finds 54 per cent of small businesses accept BNPL and that those operations score the relatively new way to pay highest among payment methods, with a 744 score on a 1,000-point scale.
Today, the UK financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, has suspended the activities of Wirecard’s UK subsidiary; this is having...