Hacker News with Generative AI: Payments

To apply for a job at Musk's DOGE, you need to pay for an X premium subscription (fortune.com)
While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up.

Elon Musk, Social Media, Business, Politics, Payments

26 points by belter 5 days ago | 2 comments

Unified Checkout: Streamlining Uber's Payment Ecosystem (uber.com)

Unified Checkout, Payments, Fintech, Uber, Business

26 points by timbilt 6 days ago | 1 comments

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July (theregister.com)
Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.

Business, Software, Payments, Digital Marketplaces

127 points by newaccount74 36 days ago | 21 comments

Tell HN: DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July (ycombinator.com)
We're a small family company and the $20k MyCommerce owes us is a big deal.

Business, Finance, Payments, Companies

155 points by grujicd 37 days ago | 45 comments

Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (visa.com)
Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, is helping to bridge existing fiat currencies with blockchains through the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), a new product designed to help financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks.

Financial Technology, Blockchain, Payments, Digital Assets

72 points by beefman 48 days ago | 29 comments

Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard (bloomberg.com)
The European Union’s biggest banks have spent years quietly creating a new way to pay that could finally allow customers to ditch their Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. cards — the latest sign that the region is looking to dislodge two of the most valuable financial firms on the planet.

Finance, Payments, Competition, Europe, Technology

66 points by helsinkiandrew 55 days ago | 88 comments

Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines (alvaroduran.com)
There are two ways to represent movement.

Payments, Engineering, State Machines

24 points by ohduran 57 days ago | 14 comments

DOJ Sues Visa for Locking Out Rival Payment Platforms (theverge.com)
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services firm has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has attempted to unlawfully crush competitors, including fintech companies like PayPal and Square.

Antitrust, Finance, Lawsuits, Payments

7 points by m463 57 days ago | 2 comments

How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers (iso20022js.com)
SWIFT is the most widely used international payment method in the world. In this tutorial we will be going over how to send a SWIFT wire programatically to your bank, what information you might need about your recipient to allow the payment to clear successfully, and the software you might need to do so. The following example can be implemented in code using iso20022.js.

Software, Development, Finance, Payments

66 points by svapnil 71 days ago | 28 comments

Visa to launch pay-by-bank payments, an alternative to credit cards (cnbc.com)

Visa, Payments, Financial Technology, Banking, Credit Cards

61 points by jnord 76 days ago | 64 comments

Ask HN: Is it still a thing to receive payment via direct bank transfer in SaaS? (ycombinator.com)

SaaS, Payments, Finance, Business

6 points by sawirricardo 80 days ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Can individual setup payment gateway like stripe easily? (ycombinator.com)

Payments, Stripe, Online Business

9 points by sawirricardo 82 days ago | 6 comments

Exactly-Once Payments at Airbnb (alvaroduran.com)