Corporate travel and expense (T&E) was turned on its head last year, and while industry experts are finally beginning to elevate their expectations for the return of the business trip, T&E is unlikely to return to the way it looked in a pre-pandemic market. Get...
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) and State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) have rolled out a cross-border interoperable QR code payment linkage between the two countries, a Regulation Asia report says. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
As so much of daily life and transactions move online, the digital-first economy is not without its new challenges. For example, the problem of identity theft is widespread — and to get a sense of scale, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has estimated that last...
Back offices can’t change overnight, but when the pandemic hit, some organizations no longer had a choice. For some businesses, years of digitization procrastination created even more challenges within a work-from-home environment and volatile market. Often, it was the entities that already had a modernization...
At first glance, it seems so retro. Subscriber Identity Module cards, better known as SIM, used to be an easily removable portable memory chip that acted as the brain of a mobile device. They’re still the brain, and although consumers don’t need to swap them...
England and Wales’ chief criminal investigations agency, the Crown Prosecution Service, is preparing for an increase of prosecutions tied to cryptocurrency-related scams, the Financial Times reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
A co-founder of Penta, the German-based virtual bank, is now rolling out Relio, an initiative focused on serving small to midsize businesses (SMBs), according to a report from Crowdfund Insider. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Chinese tech companies apparently reacting to increased regulatory scrutiny tied to the delay of Ant Group‘s planned $37 billion IPO are dropping their own plans to go public in droves, the Financial Times reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Brazil’s big banks, long known for high rates despite occasional public outcries, are racing to modernize amid challenges posed by low interest rates, the pandemic’s fallout and new digital rivals, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...