The number of Mastercard cards increased 6 percent in the Americas in 2015, which compares to a 4 percent increase for Visa, but Visa still holds the spot as the largest card scheme in the region, reported RBR. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Square, the payment company, announced Monday (Jan. 30) that small businesses in the U.S. will now be able to process more than $12,000 worth of Apple Pay payments without having to pay a fee. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Sage Group, the U.K. software company, is launching a review of the company’s payments business and is mulling a sale of the U.S. arm of that business. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Blockchain … Two words, packed into one, and surrounded by endless speculative swirl, complicating its use cases. For this month's Developer Tracker feature story, PYMNTS caught up with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, a collaborative group of developers looking for new uses for blockchain,...
On Wednesday (Jan. 25), Zoho, which offers cloud-based business operating systems, unveiled Zoho Checkout, a payments system geared toward businesses that want to set up the ability to be paid online, rather than via cash, and do so without the use of a website or...
Vivo Energy, the Shell licensee in Africa, and Orange announced Tuesday (Jan. 24) a collaborative Pan-African partnership agreement in which Orange Money customers will be able to cash in and cash out money from their Orange money account and pay in any Shell station that’s...
While India’s economy is still largely dominated by cash, the tide is beginning to turn toward modern payments. Recent PYMNTS research found that card use grew 20 percent in the country over the past three years, and new payment methods, like digital and mobile transactions,...
Citi has Costco to thank for its growth recently, according to a new analysis by Business Insider. 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...
Amid Alternative Payments, International Scope, Localized Mindsetseck: Cross-border payments are on the rise, but so is complexity — spanning across currencies, taxes and settlement, to name just a few issues. But integrating disparate points in transaction — as Vantiv is doing through its new partnership...
