The ugly reputation among payday lenders, along with regulatory crackdowns in the market, have fractured the UK’s largest industry player. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
We are in the digital age, but some companies have yet to pull their operations into the technical realm. Unless they act fast, those businesses will lose out on major growth, cost savings and customer satisfaction. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Fourth-quarter data from MarketLive shows that desktop shopping is still dominating e-commerce sales by three-to-one, eMarketer reports. 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 our...
At a time when more and more U.S. consumers have credit histories that are thin or damaged, banks are turning to alternate ways of deciding the creditworthiness of potential borrowers — including the scoring systems of alternative lenders, according to American Banker. Get the Full...
As much of a problem as payday lenders can be, there are worse things — such as companies that tell consumers who are over their heads in payday loans that they’ll solve the problem, then take the consumers’ money and abandon them to the lenders’...
British payday lenders must publish the costs of their loans on comparison websites so consumers can shop for the best deals, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Tuesday (Feb. 24). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
MasterCard now has cloud-based in-store mobile payments live in 15 countries, with another 10 in the pipeline, the card brand announced on Tuesday (Feb. 24). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
With the deadline for accepting EMV payment cards now just months away, 38 percent of U.S. small merchants still don’t have plans to upgrade their point-of-sale systems, according to a new American Express survey released Tuesday (Feb. 24). Get the Full Story Complete the form...
With more than 150 people visiting spas in 2013 alone, the segment offers significant potential for growth. Now, SaaS, social networking and e-commerce platform provider Balluun is entering the spa B2B industry with a new partnership. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
