When it comes to making payments, moving money and the voice-activated devices that can facilitate those verbal transactions, the people have spoken. Or … at least they would like to. We mean that literally. Recent PYMNTS research found that, across nearly 3,000 consumers, more than...
On the consumer side of gift card giving, that tangible piece of plastic still has a foothold that is likely to stick around for quite some time. That’s because when one is giving a gift — for a birthday holiday, special event, etc. — it...
TNM Mpamba on Tuesday (Aug. 10) announced the launch of a Mastercard virtual payment solution that will enable its mobile money wallet customers to make safe local and international eCommerce transactions. In a press release announcing the initiative, TNM Mpamba General Manager Christopher Sukasuka said...
Global FinTech startup Rapyd announced on Tuesday (Aug. 10) that Thailand’s Google Play users will now have access to PromptPay payments, starting from August 2021. According to the announcement, the experience is made possible via the company’s prior partnership with GB Prime Pay, a leading...
Digital payment platform MOCA on Tuesday (Aug. 10) rolled out its online payment assistant browser extension, Mia. The new tool can be downloaded for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer and makes online purchases with MOCA Cards more convenient for the 2.14 billion people expected...
Although payments in the tens of thousands or even millions tend to characterize business payments, the reality is that many payments made by global buyers to their suppliers are anything but that. Roughly 80 percent of those payments are less than $2,500, and half are...
The Smart Receivables Playbook: Rethinking Tuition Payments In A Time Of Transformation, a PYMNTS and Flywire collaboration, opens with a fact that’s as momentous as it seems: “A massive shift to digital education technologies and platforms has occurred over the past year, with online and...
For all the rapturous reports we read these days about the economic recovery, the fact remains that more than half of American households are currently living paycheck to paycheck — including many that earn more than $100,000 per year. Although recent PYMNTS data reveals a...
To get crypto cards into the hands of the masses, to get them spending in commercial and retail use cases … well, the cards have to be issued first. Issuers, of course, want to link into the Mastercard network so that users can spend their...
