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December 31, 2020
What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In...

In a year filled with unexpected challenges and a COVID-era economic climate that proved fatal for many companies, PYMNTS was lucky to hear directly from the front lines how scores...


August 03, 2020
Will COVID And Fraud Finally Kill The Paper Check?

PYMNTS has been writing for years about the ongoing push to #killthecheck, but paper checks live on because of their ubiquity of acceptance and simplicity to issue despite the fact...


February 07, 2020
Is 2020 Healthcare’s Year To #KillTheCheck?

At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check. Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout...


January 21, 2019
The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

There’s a canary in the faster payments coal mine. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed. That was...


June 14, 2018
NEW REPORT: Can Digital Escrow Drive Big-Ticket eCommerce?

It’s easy for consumers to buy just about anything online these days. But big-ticket items – such as used vehicles, agricultural equipment and valuable artwork – require more than a...


May 21, 2018
The Gig Economy’s $1.2T Digital Payments Potential

A smart entrepreneur dropped out of college, identified an unmet market need and created an entirely new market segment. He did it by establishing a platform that matched an underutilized...


March 02, 2018
Faster Cash Back, Happier Customers?

Cash back programs are nothing new for financial institutions (FIs), but the banking industry may be well-served to take a few cues from the masters of rewards: retailers. Several major...


February 20, 2018
Why Shopify Wants To Kill The Checkout

Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. No, this is not Morse code. It’s, in words, what a bad mobile checkout experience sounds like. Some things in life are ephemeral and hard...


February 14, 2018
Boost And Mastercard Find Blue Skies And White Spaces In...

Beyond the stereotype of the piña colada on the beach and tropical climates, the Caribbean beckons as a hot spot for B2B payments through virtual commercial cards. Boost Payment Solutions,...