Business growth in Africa requires better payments infrastructure, and that effort received a significant boost this week when Stripe, Visa and other firms invested $8 million in Paystack. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
It’s challenging to come up with a more complex case of payments flow than what is found in the music business. Not only are multiple players involved — artists, labels, consumers, online platforms, etc. — but the payments can be tiny but steady, and international. Get...
Looking backwards and forwards from the six month vantage point can be instructive. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....
When watching dance in videos, chances are good that those videos are from media company DanceOn, owned and operated by music platform izo. The story of how payments flow among dancers, musicians and other players shines a spotlight on the inner workings of moving money in...
Samsung Electronics announced Tuesday (August 21) that Samsung Pay, its digital payments platform, recently passed the mark of more than 1.3 billion transactions globally. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Native apps are boring and the web is not dead, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee in November of 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the commercial web. He’s entitled to that opinion: He’s the one, after all, who invented the World Wide Web. Get the Full...
Tencent’s WeChat, which is the leading messaging app in China, has rolled out a digital payment platform in Malaysia in what is its first Asian market outside of China and Hong Kong. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
The business of music is the business of payment flow, with all that money-moving among consumers, artists, labels and other participants involved providing songs, dance, video and related content to fans. It seems like a criminal understatement to say that that business has changed (and...
The journey of seafood from ocean to table is one of constant danger for the people who make up the fishing industry. Refrigeration technology can fail. Transport can be delayed at borders. Markets and currencies can fluctuate in seemingly strange ways, sucking profit from the...
