Visa is rolling out its “installments” option to more merchants and credit cardholders in Canada. As part of this move, Visa is partnering with Global Payments — which provides software, payments technology and services — and Desjardins, which bills itself as North America’s largest financial...
For real-time payments to truly become ubiquitous across the globe, it’s time for financial institutions to close the gap that exists, where a significant number of accounts simply are not connected to the necessary infrastructure. Ginny Chappell, senior vice president, digital payments at FIS, told...
The European Union spans 27 countries and nearly 447 million people – which, to put it mildly, implies a significant number of payments. To that end, ContextLogic B.V., which operates as a Dutch subsidiary of ContextLogic Inc., and does business as the eCommerce platform Wish,...
When most people think of digital payments, their minds still jump to use cases like splitting the dinner check, paying the babysitter or sending their college students a few extra dollars. Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments still work in all of those contexts, and quite well —...
The immediate past is prologue when discussing the great digital shift that began last year. PYMNTS’ Global Digital Shopping Index, U.S. Edition, a Cybersource collaboration — which is based on surveys of more than 2,170 U.S. consumers and 500 U.S. merchants — called the demographic...
Paysafe, the payments platform, will now be letting payments happen on the Microsoft Store or Xbox via the company’s eCash solution called paysafecard, a press release says. Paysafecard allows users to use cash to shop for goods and services online. They can utilize a 16-digit...
Payments orchestration may have made headlines in the last two or so years as the segment has gotten more attention, but it’s not nearly as new as it might feel. As CellPoint Digital’s Kristian Gjerding noted, the reality is that a lot more providers are simply...
Australia’s Finstro, which works in trade and credit solutions for B2B commerce, is ready to expand in the U.S. with new card and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tech, as the company boosts its global team by 25 percent, a press release said Tuesday (June 22)....
The groundswell for open banking is here. Banks in the U.K. are now seeing more open banking payments volume in a single month than what was measured in all of 2019. Ossama Soliman, chief product officer at TrueLayer, said that open banking has taken off...
