“Don’t touch that!” No other parental admonition from our childhoods is as relevant to 21st-century payments as a universally-recognized “hands-off” warning. Only this time, it’s not about your brother’s hockey gear, your sister’s makeup or even Dad’s sacred toy railroad collection. Get the Full Story...
March 19 will mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. lockdown in the face of the global pandemic. Since then, the payments and commerce headlines have been mostly about one thing: the consumer’s massive shift to digital. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Tops Friendly Markets now sells its company-branded tangible and digital gift cards through its website. The supermarket company’s online gift card program, which is fueled by international branded payments provider Blackhawk Network, lets customers buy gift cards individually or en masse for physical or electronic...
Sometimes the headlines don’t tell the whole story. In the payments and commerce space right now the top stories, at a macro level, are about corporate intrigue (GameStop and Robinhood), new business models (buy now, pay later) and big retail (Walmart, Amazon). But dig a...
American Express is rolling out a new digital receipts functionality, which gives clients a look into specific transaction data for purchases from companies such as Apple, Square, Microsoft and Google, according to an announcement emailed to PYMNTS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
In developing new digital products for emerging markets, the human element matters. The “cut and paste” approach to digital financial services is changing – partly as a result of more sophisticated customer feedback mechanisms, and mostly because personalization is a pathway toward success. Get the Full...
Jim Johnson, head of Worldpay from FIS, says that to succeed in the post-pandemic world, businesses must recognize the opportunity in fast-tracking their plans for digital transformation. “2020 certainly challenged all of us, but we will all come out stronger, and the businesses that reinvent...
Russ Waterhouse, executive vice president of product development and strategy at The Clearing House, discusses how the payments industry must provide better ways to serve everyone as the economy recovers. “The aspiration for true payments innovation should be better payments for all,” says Waterhouse in...
In “A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021,” Nat Salvione, chief commercial officer of Tango Card, discusses the innovations that have emerged since the pandemic: specifically, the use of pay-ahead apps and remote team engagement. Get the Full Story...
