Digital disbursements have evolved significantly in recent years, growing from a little-used novelty to a juggernaut competing directly with checks and cash. There are approximately 1.9 billion business-to-consumer (B2C) payments issued each year, with two-thirds of these made via digital means rather than paper checks....
YouTube Music has hit a new milestone as its paid subscribers now total 50 million, YouTube’s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen wrote. The figure includes people paying for YouTube Music and people paying for YouTube Premium, who get the music as part of their...
As the delta variant and an increase in COVID-19 cases push health and safety concerns back into the forefront, both government entities and private employers alike are turning to new strategies to promote vaccination among their workforces. The Dallas Independent School District in Texas announced...
Consumers' favorite runway looks are often just a click away, but not when buyers shop cross border. In this month’s Cross-Border Retail Payments Tracker, Greg Spillane, CEO of fashion eTailer Fancy, explains how localized payments and advanced fraud detection capabilities attract and convert luxury fashion’s...
The pandemic has markedly accelerated the move to online shopping, with a PYMNTS report indicating that 47 percent of U.S. consumers living in urban areas have shifted to digital rather than brick-and-mortar retail shopping. It also identified a sharp uptick in the number of consumers...
From QR codes to contactless cards, consumers want access to fast and seamless payment experiences. Merchants, however, can be left waiting days for funds to settle from these different payment channels. In the latest Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook, DJ Seeterlin, chief information officer...
Until recently there was “a consumer” who industry felt it understood, and whose tastes it knew well enough to gauge the market of new products and services. We called it “business as usual,” and it worked remarkably well, with some notable modifications, for the past...
Not all that long ago, eCommerce was more notion than reality. Buying something online still required interaction with the brick-and-mortar world, with cash, and even delivery methods that — at least by 2019 standards — may seem a bit archaic. Consider the fact that buying...
To provide streamlined walk-in bill payment services, PaymentVision is teaming up with MoneyGram. PaymentVision provides merchant processing and offers electronic payment processing technology for a variety of verticals, the company said in an announcement. PaymentVision Vice President of Marketing Eugene O’Rourke said the new partnership...
