DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alpha Payments Cloud, a global leader in providing access to payment, risk and commerce solutions to international banks and merchants, today announced it was selected by Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) for investment through its Startup Accelerator program. During the next six-months through the Startup Accelerator program, Wells Fargo will collaborate with Alpha Payments Cloud on its global payments network technologies for merchants.
The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, a non-exclusive, six-month, semi-annual program for early-stage companies, is dedicated to exploring new and emerging technologies that could provide value to Wells Fargo and its customers. Regularly collaborating with startups on a wide range of technologies helps Wells Fargo explore big ideas with innovators outside its walls and industry, and shape future customer experience.
“We are pleased to be selected for the Wells Fargo’s Startup Accelerator program," said Oliver Rajic, CEO at Alpha Payments Cloud. “It supports the Alpha Payments Cloud value proposition to the financial services industry to make an increasingly complex payments ecosystem simpler. Alpha Payments Cloud’s proprietary orchestration engine, coupled with our AlphaHub’s vendor depth, empowers users to call upon unique functions across many vendors. We provide the connections to all solution vendors, merchants and banks by acting as a middle layer where everyone has access to each other. This guarantees users more functionality and creative freedom than the old way ever could.”
“We’re excited to be investing in Alpha Payments Cloud through our Startup Accelerator and have it be part our investment portfolio,” said Steve Ellis, head of Wells Fargo’s Innovation Group. “It represents precisely the technology innovation in international payments we want to explore for our merchant customers.”
About Alpha Payments Cloud
Alpha Payments Cloud is a global leader in providing third party payment, risk and commerce solution access to international banks and merchants through the AlphaHub platform. The AlphaHub is a single Payments-as-a-Service platform that allows Payment Providers to plug into and expose their solutions, Banks and other Financial Institutions to access and sell these solutions, and Merchants to gain access to use and customize between available solutions. With all integrations accessible through a single API, Alpha Payments Cloud eliminates restrictions and friction caused by legacy platforms, and introduces the possibility of infinite third-party vendor access. For more information, visit http://www.alphapaymentscloud.com.