Each week, PYMNTS will turn the B2B spotlight on a single nation. This week we take a look at Australia, whose emerging alternative finance industry is gaining speed fast. Digital payments are now the norm in certain sectors and businesses are open to non-bank payment...
The last 12 months have been good for alternative financial services. And this is quantifiable from a variety of vantage points. A decade ago, alternative financial services was mostly a euphemism for seeing a quasi-reputable, or in some cases totally irreputable lender. In the last year alone,...
In a year full of twists and turns, eBay may have managed to snag the “payments’ ecosystem’s “biggest surprise award” last year with its apparent about face and decision to split in two and form two independent companies: eBay and PayPal. On the road to...
Though it often felt like the winter would never end, Memorial Day weekend is here, which means summer has arrived, even albeit unofficially. And while others are heading to the beach, firing up the BBQ’s, going out for soft-serve ice cream and scouting out baseball tickets...
Healthcare billing, as much any other area of payments, is an emerging and complex space. There is room for simplification, no doubt, and SimpleePAY – as its name implies – hopes to provide as much. PYMNTS recently spoke with Tomer Shoval, CEO of SimpleePAY, to...
“This isn’t about minor upgrades — like replacing the card swipe with a tap — this is about fundamentally rewiring the commerce experience.” — Bill Ready, SVP Global Head of Merchant & NextGen Commerce at PayPal In life, it often boils down to making one...
Among one of the top concerns of today’s small businesses is improper treatment by the hands of their large corporate buyers. Issues like late payments from corporations to their small supplier are leading to rising tensions and strained relationships between SMEs and the giants. But...
If the success of the Uber-like payments models have proven anything about consumer preference and mobile payments, it’s that consumers want a frictionless experience. And that they don’t want to think about payments as part of the transaction itself. It’s the reason the term “uberization”...
Big Data has arrived in the trucking sector. Last year, less than half of the 12 major global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) were developing Big Data strategies. Before the end of the decade, 100 percent of the top OEMs will use Big Data to improve...
