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Paul R. Garcia gave his company a name it had to grow into
Global Payments was mostly American when Paul R. Garcia took it independent. He spent the next twelve years turning an ambitious name into an international business, one bank partnership at a time.
PingPong Payments: The 1% Idea That Grew a Payment Network
PingPong began by helping online sellers keep more of their money. Its next wager is that the most useful payment company lives inside the software businesses already use.
Hypercom: the checkout rival worth keeping alive
Hypercom made the small machines that let a sale become a payment. Its $485 million takeover came with an unusual condition: America still needed a rival at the counter.
Aron Schwarzkopf Is Building the Rails Nobody Sees
The Kushki co-founder has spent his career making money move more easily. His second act began with a return to Latin America - and a wager that the region's invisible financial plumbing could become its most consequential technology.
DECTA does the work behind the payment button
A bank wants card payments. A fintech wants its own cards. DECTA sells the infrastructure that makes both possible, with the fiddly parts included.
Guavapay wanted to move your money. Then came the stop.
An app, a merchant checkout and a place on football shirts: Guavapay built a broad payments business. Its UK company’s liquidation exposes the distance between making money move and keeping a financial firm running.
Priority Commerce Bought a Bankrupt Payments Darling - Then Turned It Into a Cash-Flow Machine
The Georgia fintech started with card processing, paid roughly $37 million for Plastiq after its Chapter 11 filing, and stitched merchant services, payables and treasury into one engine. The bet is simple: the company that sees the whole cash cycle gets more ways to earn.
The ATM Company That Learned to Move Everything Else
Euronet began by putting cash machines where banks had not. Thirty years later, the same company sits behind gift cards, remittances, card programs and real-time payment rails - a quiet lesson in making one expensive network do several jobs.
dtcpay
dtcpay is a Singapore-headquartered, regulated payments company that lets merchants, consumers and financial institutions move money in stablecoins as easily as in dollars. Founded in 2019 as Digital Treasures Center by Alice Liu and Band Zhao, it runs a real-time swap engine that converts stablecoins to fiat at the moment of payment, so a shopper can pay in USDC while a merchant is settled in Singapore dollars. The company holds a Major Payment Institution licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore plus licences and registrations in Hong Kong, Australia, the United States, Canada and a Luxembourg EMI licence covering the European Economic Area. In January 2025 it dropped volatile cryptocurrencies entirely and became stablecoin-only. Its product line spans in-store POS+ terminals, online checkout, payment links, multi-currency wallets, a Visa Infinite "Digital Treasures Card", corporate cards and stablecoin-as-a-service APIs for institutions. dtcpay raised a US$10M Series A led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India in March 2026, bringing total disclosed funding to roughly US$26.5M.
Global Payments
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is an Atlanta-based payment technology company that helps businesses accept and process payments across in-store, online and mobile channels. After acquiring Worldpay and divesting its issuer-processing business in January 2026, it became a pure-play merchant solutions company serving more than 6 million merchant locations across 175+ countries, handling roughly 94 billion transactions and $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume.