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B2B Payments
Real-Time Data Breaks Monthly Accounting Rituals
March 29, 2023

Contextual real-time data, not Advil, is helping CFOs solve lingering spend management headaches.  Flurries of payments and accompanying reports have kept chief financial officers on their toes for years. Still, Oded Zehavi, CEO at Mesh Payments, tells PYMNTS that the spend management landscape can be divided into...

Payment Methods
Billions of People and Trillions of Transactions Define the PayFac Opportunity in Emerging Markets
March 29, 2023

Forging a 21st century commerce ecosystem on a global scale means changing consumer behavior, and merchant mindsets, particularly in markets where digital remains a small fraction of how consumers and merchants shop and pay.  It’s also an enormous opportunity for PayFacs to accelerate adoption and...

Payment Methods
Can Apple Pay Later Light a Fire Under Apple Pay Now?
March 28, 2023

Launched way back in 2014, Apple Pay was supposed to ignite contactless payments, with Apple devices as the conduit.   Consumers would move beyond using the physical wallet at the point of sale — especially the physical point of sale — and juggling plastic debit and...

Cross-border Payments
Brightwell and Visa Team to Simplify Launching Cross-Border Payments Programs
March 28, 2023

Brightwell and Visa have teamed up to help customers launch cross-border payments programs. This collaboration enables the use of Visa Direct through Brightwell’s ReadyRemit platform, making it easier for FinTechs, money transmitters, and prepaid and banking providers to enable real-time push payments to 3 billion...

Delivery
Delivery Makes up Small but Growing Share of Restaurant Orders 
March 28, 2023

Restaurant delivery economics may be tricky, but with rising demand, the channel isn’t going anywhere. The Context Delivery sales continue to rise. Last month, the nation’s leading restaurant aggregator DoorDash shared in its earnings report that orders grew 35% year over year in the fourth quarter. “2022...

Retail
Gap Partners With Optoro to Improve Returns Experience 
March 28, 2023

As merchants begin to clamp down on returns, more brands are revisiting how they handle this inescapable aspect of eCommerce, with Gap the latest to announce it’s trying a new way. In a Tuesday (March 28) press release, returns technology provider Optoro announced that Gap...

Delivery
Kroger Slows Delivery Rollout in Bid for Longer-Term Viability
March 28, 2023

Around the world, grocers are reconceiving their grocery delivery businesses to better meet consumers’ needs. Kroger is slowing down its automated fulfillment center rollout but remains committed to opening more, as the grocery giant’s technology partner, British online grocery company Ocado, said Tuesday (March 28), Reuters reported....

Regulation
CFPB Says States Can Extend Disclosure Laws to Commercial Financing
March 28, 2023

States can continue extending disclosure laws covering lending to businesses. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in a Tuesday (March 28) preemption determination that such state laws are not inconsistent with or preempted by the federal Truth in Lending Act, the CFPB said in a Tuesday press release. “After analyzing...

Delivery
Uber Eats Aims for Control of Ghost Kitchens on Platform
March 28, 2023

Aiming to gain greater control over the digital restaurant market, Uber is rethinking ghost kitchens. The company announced Tuesday (March 28) the launch of its Certified Virtual Restaurant Program, through which Uber Eats takes a more central role in creating and controlling virtual brands on...