Visa and PayPal announced on Tuesday (Sept. 6) that Visa Checkout will soon be available as a payment service for Braintree merchants. Braintree is a PayPal company that’s behind the payment processing for internet companies, including Airbnb, Eventbrite, Pinterest and Uber. Braintree enables merchants to accept...
The PYMNTS Stock Index saw a few mid-sized percentage gains, which may have cheered investors over the long holiday weekend. The smaller the stock, however, the more outsized the percentage gains on relatively little news. Among the firms that saw upward trends was Planet Payment, which was...
One of Hungary’s largest banks, Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is enhancing its electronic payment services by working more closely with partner ACI Worldwide. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Aiming to increase transparency and fairness around its video monetization, YouTube announced changes in a blog post last week. 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...
South Australia is becoming the first government in Australia to enable residents to pay for public transportation via a smartphone. According to a report, Adelaide is gearing up to run a three-month, proof-of-concept, smartphone-based ticketing system on select transport routes with a controlled test group...
Payments security has long been considered an add-on — something that is necessary but often a defensive move in payments. That’s now how James Jenkins of CA Technologies sees it. Listen in on the conversation that Jenkins and Karen Webster had about how payments security...
For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old. 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 daily newsletter,...
Brave Software, the new ad-free browser, announced last week it released Brave for desktop and the beta of Brave Payments, its bitcoin-based micropayments system that lets users automatically and privately pay their favorite websites. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Boo. Labor Day, at least in the U.S., signals the unofficial end of summer. For payments, there doesn’t appear to be very many of those lazy, hazy summer days — it was busy. There were more than a few crazy ones. Here’s how payments spent...
