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Daniel Kroyter, founder of merchant account provider TailoredPay, believes that for beginner investors, education is crucial. While AI-powered tools can help, an experienced financial advisor can ...
Merchant services. Merchant services is a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. [1] In its most specific use, it usually refers to merchant processing services that enables a business to accept a transaction payment through a secure (encrypted) channel using the customer's credit card or debit card or NFC / RFID ...
A merchant cash advance (MCA) was originally structured as a lump sum payment to a business in exchange for an agreed-upon percentage of future credit card and/or debit card sales. [1] The idea originated from Barbara Johnson, who needed funds for her small business franchise. As a result, Barbara, her husband Gary, and Les Falke co-founded ...
Project finance is the long-term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of its sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of equity investors, known as 'sponsors', and a 'syndicate' of banks or other lending institutions that ...
A merchant cash advance is an alternative type of business financing that advances a lump-sum payment based on future credit or debit card sales. You’re essentially guaranteeing the advance with ...
A payment gateway is a merchant service provided by an e-commerce application service provider that authorizes credit card or direct payment processing for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks, or traditional brick and mortar. [1] The payment gateway may be provided by a bank to its customers, but can be provided by a specialised ...
Acquiring bank. An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. [1] The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from the card-issuing banks within a card association, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, China UnionPay ...
Multi-currency pricing (MCP) is a method that international companies use to do business using local currencies. [1] [2] This allows them to price goods and services in a variety of foreign currencies, while continuing to receive settlement and reporting in their home currency. With MCP, merchants can sell the same item to British customers in ...