Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often provides a useful lens through which priorities, anxieties and ambitions can be understood. During...
For more than two decades, financial technology companies have been racing to expand a financing model invented by General Motors over a century ago. The model established in‑house finance arms so that car buyers could get a loan at the dealership instead of trudging to...
Earnings season rarely yields a single organizing narrative, yet the most recent cycle has revealed a narrative tied to cards: Issuance is increasingly positioned as embedded infrastructure. Across investor materials and management commentary, companies and highlighted spend intensity and workflow integration, as issuance has become...
Cash App introduced a peer-to-peer payment feature designed to simplify money requests. The company’s new payment links service lets customers generate shareable Cash App payment request links that can be sent via text, email, social media and messaging apps, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 11)...
Watch more: Need to Know With Priority’s Brendan Kirsch On a sold-out Friday night, a modern sports venue becomes a small city. Tens of thousands of people arrive within a narrow time window. They buy tickets, merchandise, food, drinks, parking and experiences. Dozens of vendors...
Watch more: Need to Know: Discover Network’s Deepak Sevak Modern commerce runs on invisible infrastructure that powers payments. Every tap-to-pay token, in-app checkout and cross-border eCommerce transaction depends on a lattice of real-time connections that must perform flawlessly under enormous, rising pressure. The sophistication of...
The modern economy is running on integration debt. For most of the past two decades, technology progress has been defined by platforms. Companies built proprietary stacks, walled gardens and bespoke integrations that differentiated products. But these platform-driven solutions also compounded friction across the global economy....
Revolut made its one-tap checkout solution Revolut Pay compatible with Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). The company also contributed to the development of the open protocol by adapting the agentic commerce flows to account-to-account payments, according to a Monday (Jan. 19) press release. The collaboration...
As nostalgia sweeps across social media, touching everything from posts to playlists, 2016 has emerged as a reference point for how different things felt and how much optimism was embedded in the moment. It was a year when technology promised reinvention, platforms promised scale and...