Last year, pop hit machine Taylor Swift publicly denounced labels’ and producers’ control of publishing, which comes down to royalties. For old-school rockers, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) fans may recall that bandleader John Fogerty fought labels and bandmates for years over royalty rip-offs. If only...
Riding public transportation in a foreign city is always something of an adventure, especially if one can’t speak or read the local language. Such was the experience of Visa Senior Vice President of Global Seller Products Jason Blackhurst in trying to take public transportation during an...
Payments have long been the conduit for new and different experiences in commerce. Look no further than the past year as proof as contactless payments, digital banking and digital wallets gained significant traction. Cryptos, too, of course — and bit by bit, we’re seeing the...
Apple Card outages being reported on Wednesday (June 2) seem to be affecting people’s ability to make purchases and appear to be an ongoing issue, according to Twitter and other reports. Apple updated its System Status page at 2:14 p.m. EST and indicated that the...
“Latin America is one of the last frontiers where everything is completely ‘legacy.’ The technology is fragmented and unstandardized. It’s been a blank canvas,” Kushki CEO Aron Schwarzkopf told Karen Webster. Local firms want to enable digital payments amid the pandemic, connecting consumers and devices...
There is a tendency to associate cash-based consumers with developing economies and the world’s unbanked population. The cash-based customer, conventional wisdom goes, isn’t using cash from desire but from necessity, and offered something better by the transformative power of technology to digitize their funds, they...
Usually when people say something “isn’t what it used to be,” it’s not meant as a compliment — the implication is that whatever it is now is less than it was before. But that implication to the side, the world we live in as 2021...
Repay Holdings Corporation is teaming up with Paysafe to facilitate online cash payments to lenders and other merchants, the companies announced in a press release. The partnership will enable REPAY merchants and lenders to accept cash payments at Paysafe’s 60,000-plus partner locations, which include U.S. dollar...
Digital commerce and marketing platform Noble has linked up with payments company Square to provide online payment processing of food and drink orders for live events. The Noble platform will be available on the Square App Marketplace. The two companies said in a Wednesday (May...