Indonesian buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Kredivo has teamed up with the country’s Bank Sahabat Sampoerna to launch a new payment card. Flexi Card, announced Tuesday (Dec. 7), is a physical card that can be used at millions of outlets throughout the country using...
In early December 2019, few had yet heard of COVID-19. News reports were only just trickling in. It didn’t seem like the entire world was teetering on the brink of colossal change, but it was. The health crisis wrought massive changes in all areas of...
Bob Dole died this weekend, at the age of 98. Whatever your view of his politics or career might be, his passing gives cause to pause and reflect on how much life has changed in the decades since he ran for president 25 (!) years...
Citizens Financial Group is expanding its partnership with the Microsoft Store and offering no-interest, point-of-sale financing through the bank’s Citizens Pay platform, according to a press release on Monday (Dec. 6). The new financing option offers an alternative way to pay for Microsoft products like...
The pandemic has forced companies to modernize back-office procedures, and more and more are adopting software for accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) processes — and in some cases, adopting fully outsourced models. There was some innovation in payments, too, but now change on...
The pandemic brought a great deal of attention to the variety of ways customers can get meals from restaurants. Both table-service restaurants and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) often offer their customers a choice of purchasing channels, including dine-in, phone call, order online with restaurant and order...
Black Friday has come and gone, and most people are likely immersed in Cyber Monday deals. But data gleaned over Black Friday’s in-store and online shopping frenzy spotlight the ways in which consumers have been paying – and the ways in which they will pay,...
Visa has raised concerns with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) about India favoring the domestic payments card provider RuPay, three years after Mastercard did so privately in 2018, Reuters reported Sunday (Nov. 28). “Visa remains concerned about India’s formal and informal policies that appear to favor the business of the National...
The past several weeks have seen countless reports about the challenges that would give a cockeyed optimist momentary pause before giving thanks: supply chain issues delaying deliveries of turkeys and other staples, inflation pushing prices higher and a pandemic that just doesn’t seem to want...
