Sports betting apps like FanDuel, DraftKings, Penn National Gaming app and BetMGM experienced technical issues right before the Super Bowl on Sunday (Feb. 7), CNBC reported. As the game was about to start, technicians tried to fix issues on those platforms and others in order...
Real-time payments have a knowledge gap. According to PYMNTS research, a surprising 36.2 percent of consumers claim to have used real-time payments even though the methods they use either do not support real-time payments or are not made in real time. Why the lack of...
Talk about a growth industry. By the end of 2022, the global cannabis industry will have a $22 billion market value, with a jump to $146 billion expected in just three years. It creates an incredible opportunity for payments players looking to add innovation to...
Global branded payments provider Blackhawk Network has launched its new virtual universal prepaid Mastercard for Canadian businesses, according to a press release. Businesses can issue the prepaid cards as a customer reward option and tailor them to include their brand logo in the delivery email,...
When it comes to B2B payments and accounting processes, paper is the enemy. But like any formidable foe, it’s not going down without a fight. It’s a battle Dylan Jones, vice president of operations, corporate payment solutions at WEX, fights every day. He told PYMNTS recently...
MoneyGram and Visa are collaborating to introduce a real-time peer-to-peer (P2P) payment solution to people in Vietnam. “We’ve already hit the ground running in 2021, and this latest integration with Visa Direct further improves our leading customer experience and will help execute our strategy to...
Michael Jordan is mostly known for one thing: basketball. And as he once said about hoops, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” But perhaps his best quote comes from his other pastime, gambling: “I want people to understand, gambling is not...
In Pakistan, and elsewhere, the stars are aligning for greater use of digital banking and payments to improve financial inclusion. To that end, Amir Wain, CEO of i2c Inc., told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview that the pandemic and the rise of mobile infrastructure have set...
We may be catching a glimpse of economic life beyond the pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday (Feb. 1) that it sees gross domestic product (GDP) returning to pre-pandemic levels by the middle of this year. But it’ll take some time, as The...
