The power of software as a service (SaaS) in finance lies in turning software into a composable, live payments engine that lives inside other systems, enabling finance less as a module and more as an embedded, dynamic utility. At its core, SaaS is about delivering...
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: AWS, Nilesh Dusane In today’s connected economy, the lines between what’s table stakes and what’s transformative are shifting. To keep pace, financial institutions are re-architecting systems from the ground up to exploit cloud-native capabilities like microservices, serverless computing and...
Watch more: What’s Next: i2c, Seth Perlman When it comes to the future of payments, the stakes are high and unforgiving. Consumers expect services to be available around the clock, fraudsters are more sophisticated than ever, and regulators are keeping a watchful eye on every...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments Payments are often invisible. At least until they fail — then, all of a sudden, they become incredibly visible. But keeping payments invisible is no small feat in today’s dynamic landscape. Payment rails are multiplying, regulations are diverging and...
Payments FinTech PayNearMe says it has secured $50 million in new funding. The Series E investment from AVP (Atlantic Vantage Point) is designed to speed PayNearMe’s expansion into new markets and fuel investment in products to simplify the end-to-end payment experience for its customers, the company...
Tokenization has emerged from a niche concept to a strategic imperative across financial services, increasingly underpinning payment security and the trading of real-world assets. The catch-all moniker might be viewed as shorthand for the secure transmission of information, but use cases differ, and what follows...
Watch more: The Unsexy Payment Infrastructure Powering the Future of eSports, Creator Economies Most of the digital economy’s spotlight falls upon the glamorous. Think viral content, multimillion-dollar games and tournaments, blockbuster game launches, and influencer-driven brand deals. But behind the glitz lies a stubborn bottleneck,...
Watch more: Visa Gives Developers New Tools to Accelerate Agentic Commerce “There’s almost a reimagining of the internet going on right now,” Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of Growth Rubail Birwadker told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. For the past 30 years, eCommerce has...
The Federal Reserve is holding a conference in October focused on payment system improvements. The conference, scheduled for Oct. 21, will explore several aspects of payments innovation, including the intersection of traditional and decentralized finance and the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and payments, the...