Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a prolific inventor who created the lightning rod after flying a kite with a key on it in a thunderstorm. A little known fact, perhaps, is that Franklin is...
Welcome to Five on Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories cover subjects ranging from online marketplaces to a new examination of Wells Fargo’s financial practices. There is also news about two new payments deals involving...
To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines advanced machine learning with automatic card updates to help businesses increase recurring revenue at a time of growth for subscription-based models, Stripe said...
In between stories last week about Jack Dorsey saying that bitcoin will be the world’s single digital currency in about 10 years and Facebook’s meltdown over its latest data scandal, you might have missed Google’s announcement of Shopping Actions. Get the Full Story Complete the...
To enable faster and more efficient royalty payment advances to recording artists working on TuneCore, Hyperwallet has signed a deal with Lyric Financial — a financial services provider that specializes in royalty advances and loans for recording artists, Hyperwallet said in an announcement. Get the Full Story...
If two years ago we had reported that Chase and PayPal had struck up a partnership in which Chase Freedom cardholders would get 5 percent cash back every time they used their card via PayPal to make a purchase, we imagine the likely responses would...
Smart payments and integrated commerce firm i2c said Tuesday that it is opening an operations center in Omaha, Nebraska. 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 help shoppers use gift cards, coupons and loyalty rewards when paying with their mobile phones, Ingenico Group has made Google Pay Smart Tap available on its point of sale (POS) systems in the U.K. Ingenico made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress, the company said in...
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any new product, it’s top of the S-curve or bust. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
