Improving customer experience has become a market trend across industries. Companies strive to improve payments and cater their businesses to customer bases that value easy buying experiences enabled by the latest technologies. In doing so, businesses also strive to find ways to access markets...
Brazilian payments company Ebanx is reportedly preparing to expand into India by year’s end. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (Sept. 18) the company will soon begin letting global merchants process payments via its platform. The expansion will also include India’s popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system. “It’s in the...
Stripe has added new payment methods and A/B test capabilities to its optimized checkout suite. The suite provides businesses with products, tools and features they can integrate into their customer journey, the financial infrastructure platform said in a Monday (Sept. 18) press release. “What is the perfect...
Uber and PayPal have extended their partnership to enhance the payment experience for Uber’s customers and drivers. As part of the agreement, Uber will continue to leverage PayPal’s services, including PayPal Braintree, for global card processing, the companies said in a Tuesday (Sept. 12) press release. This will...
Square has said it will investigate and publish a full review of an outage that impacted merchants for about 19 hours late Thursday (Sept. 7) and early Friday. The payments platform said in a Friday post on X that the outage began Thursday and it was aware...
Beyond, a revenue management solution for vacation rental managers and owners, has unveiled Tally, a payment processing solution specifically designed for the vacation rental industry. As noted in a Tuesday (Aug. 22) press release, Tally aims to tackle the payment friction experienced through direct booking sites,...
Kristian Gjerding, CEO at CellPoint Digital, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that amid the rise of open banking, faster payments and pay by bank’s continued embrace, there’s one thing that’s top of mind for his company’s clients: “It’s always the key business value,” he said....
As the world becomes increasingly digital, financial institutions and enterprises are facing a new challenge: onboarding and connecting to a proliferating number of real-time payments schemes. In the United States, for example, instant payments loom as FedNow is set to launch in a matter of weeks. As Form3 Chief...
Nigeria’s Nomba has raised $30 million to move payments from the “generic” to the specific. “Despite the growth in digital payments across Africa, most businesses still only have access to generic point-of-sale machines to support the collection of payments,” the payments service provider said in...