Singapore was already an established top-five global financial center before the global pandemic appeared on the scene, and its status in pure play finance was already trickling down into the FinTech sector, Accelerating Asia Co-founder Craig Dixon told Karen Webster in a digital fireside chat...
Here in the future, we don’t have to leave the domicile unless we want to. It’s a whole new way of consuming, living and paying. Perhaps most importantly, people absolutely love it. That’s clear in The Bring-It-To-Me Economy, a PYMNTS and Carat from Fiserv collaboration,...
The velocity of technological advancement has sped the arrival of digital-centric lifestyles and business models — even new industries in some cases — all now coming under the umbrella of what PYMNTS now refers to as the ever-expanding ConnectedEconomy™. Measuring the pace of change as...
The inaugural report in PYMNTS ConnectedEconomy™ series, How Consumers Live In The ConnectedEconomy™, culled from a Q2 2021 survey of nearly 15,100 U.S. consumers, identifies new buyer personas forged by the great digital shift across what we characterize as the eight pillars of the 5G,...
Automotive data startup Wejo announced it has joined forces with Microsoft, Palantir and Sompo Holdings on a new connected vehicle data project. Wejo said in a Tuesday (June 29) news release that the three companies will help it reach its vision of “building the manufacturer-agnostic industry...
It’s official: Payoneer is now a publicly traded company. Having completed its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp. and now embarking on its new life as Payoneer Global Inc., the company began trading on the Nasdaq Monday (June 28). Talking...
Going public is often considered the finish line of a long journey for many companies, but Payoneer Vice President of Marketing Jonny Steel told PYMNTS that although his firm’s soon-to-be listing follows a 15-year stint as a private company, its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...
Interchange fees, assessed by credit card companies on merchants for credit and debit card transactions, have taken center stage. Companies are assessed these costs by financial institutions in exchange for taking the credit risk and handling these transactions. Visa and Mastercard have delayed more than...
When Stripe President and Co-founder John Collison and PYMNTS Karen Webster were contemplating the future of the Connected Economy, they recalled the past, specifically 2005 when the dot-com bubble burst and the overwhelming pessimists overtook the market when it came to the topic of the...