The pandemic has brought all manner of in-store commerce to digital channels – including what used to be routine, brick-and-mortar visits to grocery stores. In the Omni Grocery report: What Consumers Expect from their Grocery Shopping Experiences, a collaboration between ACI Worldwide and PYMNTS, surveys...
Like many founders in the African mobile money space, PawaPay CEO Nikolai Barnwell sees endless opportunities for growth as people increasingly embrace mobile money as a safer and more efficient alternative to cash. “There are very few things that you can do with mobile money that you can’t do with cash,”...
“What goes up…” and all that. Even PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps obeys Newtonian physics, reflecting the nature of all things in the natural (or digital) worlds. That’s why this update looks quite different from last month, as a number of deeply competitive...
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) member Citcon has attained the status of Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise for its connection of the Citcon payment gateway offering, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. “Achieving Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise gives our customers the confidence that...
New Venmo rules will make it so users who get payments identified as goods and services will be charged a 1.9 percent transaction fee plus 10 cents, according to an email from the company. That change goes into effect July 20. The email doesn’t reflect...
Kenyan telecom Safaricom is discussing the use of its mobile money service M-Pesa on Amazon’s eCommerce platform, Bloomberg reported. The move comes out of Safaricom’s global expansion efforts to recover from its first profit decline in 10 years, according to the report. “M-Pesa accounts for...
In the latest evidence of how what’s old is new again — or at least of a technology that’s continuing to find its moment amid the pandemic and the great digital shift — consider the QR code. All manner of in-person commerce, where money and...
The mobile payments surge is global in scope, touching all regions and countries. That’s especially apparent in Africa, where as reported Thursday (April 1), Airtel Africa is getting a $100 million investment from Mastercard that valued the platform at roughly $2.7 billion, and which would give Mastercard...
Mobile wallet lovers, the ranks of which grow daily, are still buzzing with the late 2020 announcement that purchases made with the Samsung Pay mobile wallet in 2021 will not earn rewards points redeemable with the popular Samsung Rewards program. It’s starting a wider discussion...
