April 25, 2024
EBANX Teams With Brazil’s FastSpring to Expand Pix Usage
FastSpring and EBANX have teamed to expand the usage of the Pix payment in Brazil. FastSpring, based in Brazil, powers payments for global Software-as-a-Service and software companies. EBANX is a tech company focusing...
April 25, 2024
GoDaddy Debuts Pocket-Sized POS for Small Businesses
Web provider GoDaddy has introduced a smaller point-of-sale (POS) tool for small businesses. Smart Terminal Flex, announced Thursday (April 25) is designed to fit inside an apron pocket while still helping businesses...
April 25, 2024
This Week in B2B: Enterprise Metaverses, AI Accountants, Virtual Cards
Innovation is a key factor in any company’s ability to succeed in the long run. And so are the ways in which they pay and get paid. That’s why, within...
April 25, 2024
Real-Time Payments Help Cure Small Business Healthcare Provider Finances
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the healthcare provider segment now use real-time payments more widely than other payment rails. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that in the last year, 83% of...
April 25, 2024
Connected Consumer Data Provides Solid Growth Strategy for Merchants
Businesses that use data strategically can unlock opportunities, fuel growth and reduce risk, Jeff Pomeroy, SVP and head of Omnicommerce at Carat from Fiserv, writes in the new PYMNTS eBook,...
April 24, 2024
Razorpay and Airtel Payments Bank Partner on UPI Infrastructure
Razorpay has launched its own Unified Payments Interface (UPI) infrastructure in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank. The new infrastructure, UPI Switch, boost success rates by 4% to 5%; handles up to 10,000 transactions per...
April 24, 2024
76% of Gamers Who Can’t Access Instant Payouts Would If...
Winning can provide an instant rush — and although 8 in 10 gamers prefer immediate access to their winnings, less than half of gamers now have access to instant payouts. That...
April 24, 2024
New Airline Refund Requirements Put Spotlight on Instant Digital Disbursements
Air travel is a complicated business — and those complications can get passed down to travelers. From extended delays when waiting for refunds after abrupt flight cancellations, to spending hours...
April 24, 2024
Nium and Thredd Launch APAC Virtual Card Partnership
Cross-border payments platform Nium and payments processor Thredd have expanded their partnership. As Thredd said in a Wednesday (April 24) news release, this expansion will allow Nium issue virtual cards in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region....
Enthusiasm has never been higher for instant payments adoption, but accelerated funds lost to fraud are seldom retrievable, so faster funds need faster fraud-fighting to remain secure. The latest edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how FIs are leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to oversee significant drops in faster payments fraud.
One in four SMB receivers say poor payment timing is their top challenge in processing nonrecurring or ad hoc payments, yet only 39% of these payments are received through instant channels. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 405 SMB receivers, How Instant Ad Hoc Payment Costs Impact Small SMBs,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, explores why, detailing how costs and availability impact micro SMBs’ interest in instant.