Articles from Aurora Payments

Aurora Payments, a full‑service payment technology provider, today announced Ryan Cross as Chief Financial Officer, responsible for leading the company’s finance organization and driving financial excellence, operational efficiency and growth.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment technology provider, today announced that Derek Dean has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Dean succeeds Brian Goudie, who will transition to the role of Executive Chairman after nearly a decade leading the company’s rapid expansion.

Badovinac joins Aurora to lead the expansion of embedded payments across software platforms, ISVs, and ecommerce channels

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment technology provider, today announced the appointment of Avin Arumugam as Chief Product Officer (CPO). A seasoned fintech and product leader, Arumugam will lead the organization’s Product teams while driving continued innovation of the ARISE payment platform and expanding Aurora’s ecosystem of intelligent, cloud-based payment solutions.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment technology provider, today announced the launch of Network Tokenization—a next-generation solution integrated into its ARISE Payment Platform that replaces sensitive cardholder data with dynamic, network-issued tokens. This advancement helps merchants, software partners, and ISOs reduce fraud, increase approval rates, and lower processing costs—all while simplifying PCI compliance.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Derek Dean as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Head of Commercial, responsible for leading and overseeing revenue and marketing. Dean brings over 25 years of experience in the technology and software sector and has a proven history of leading high-performing teams and driving substantial corporate transformation and revenue growth. He will report directly to Aurora Payments CEO, Brian Goudie.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment solutions provider, today announced the launch of Calendarise, a cloud-based, all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) system that offers comprehensive customer management functionalities for SMB (small to medium business) service providers. Calendarise is the first POS in the payments industry that empowers SMBs to manage all aspects of their customer relations, including appointment booking, customer retention marketing, recurring revenue and payments. Nail salons, hairdressers, pet care services, day spas, tattoo parlors, and other service businesses will benefit from streamlining customer appointments, staff management and payments via an all-in-one integrated system.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment solutions provider and creator of the ARISE Payment Platform, today announced its partnerships with payment hardware provider SUNMI and software developer Proxet. Together, Aurora and SUNMI are providing new payment terminals created specifically to meet the needs of SMBs. The terminals are designed in line with Aurora’s mission of unlocking efficient and easy-to-use payment solutions that eliminate friction for small and medium business owners. Aurora Payments' partnership with Proxet was multifaceted. It focused on enhancing the technical infrastructure, security measures, and overall functionality and scalability of ARISE's Payment Gateway. Aurora is pursuing additional strategic industry partnerships and will release new features and capabilities for SMBs in the months ahead.

Aurora Payments, a full-service payment solutions provider, today introduced the ARISE Payment Platform, a cloud-based, payment-agnostic modern payment system designed specifically for SMBs (Small and Medium-sized Businesses). The ARISE Payment Platform works in tandem with the ARISE Payment Terminal in a card-present environment or standalone mode in a card-not-present environment. Designed as a one-stop payment hub, ARISE is an easy-to-use, powerful payment solution for SMBs — a category long underserved by the payments industry. Watch a short video about ARISE here.

Aurora Payments, LLC announces the acquisition of VN Systems, a Georgia-based Merchant Services Provider specializing in providing merchant services and software for Vietnamese-owned salons. Founded by Garry O’Neil, VNS has a portfolio highly centralized with 80% of its clients being Vietnamese owned nail salons. With the acquisition by Aurora, VNS will be able to expand their distribution by leveraging Aurora’s full-service payment ecosystem and proprietary technology.