A new report shows that, across the globe, there were more than 270 billion card payments in 2015, an increase of 15 percent over 2014. Such an increase, according to RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, is almost double the 8 percent...
Google announced on Wednesday (Sept. 7) it has added Chase to the Android Pay family. 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 daily newsletter,...
Google, the internet search leader, has rolled out an update to the Chrome browser that adds Android Pay mobile payment support and also improves the performance of the search engine. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
“Lydia. Oh, Lydia. Oh, have you seen Lydia?” Groucho Marx asked audiences decades ago, and the refrain might raise echoes again, in the unlikely halls of payments in France. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Visa and PayPal announced on Tuesday (Sept. 6) that Visa Checkout will soon be available as a payment service for Braintree merchants. Braintree is a PayPal company that’s behind the payment processing for internet companies, including Airbnb, Eventbrite, Pinterest and Uber. Braintree enables merchants to accept...
The PYMNTS Stock Index saw a few mid-sized percentage gains, which may have cheered investors over the long holiday weekend. The smaller the stock, however, the more outsized the percentage gains on relatively little news. Among the firms that saw upward trends was Planet Payment, which was...
One of Hungary’s largest banks, Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is enhancing its electronic payment services by working more closely with partner ACI Worldwide. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Aiming to increase transparency and fairness around its video monetization, YouTube announced changes in a blog post last week. 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...
South Australia is becoming the first government in Australia to enable residents to pay for public transportation via a smartphone. According to a report, Adelaide is gearing up to run a three-month, proof-of-concept, smartphone-based ticketing system on select transport routes with a controlled test group...
