The holy grail of payments modernization can be boiled down into to one word: standardization. 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,...
Gas stations are encouraging it. Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Fitness clubs have been doing it for a while — but some have gotten into trouble lately for doing it when they shouldn’t have....
Physicist Niels Bohr — or maybe it was ballplayer Yogi Berra — once said predictions are hard, especially the ones about the future. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
There is a growing list of things millennials have seemingly been blamed for rendering obsolete, such as cocktail napkins, casual dining and expensive engagement rings. Part of the reason why this generation supposedly has little interest in such mainstays is that they have become used...
To understand when and how consumer demand will return and the impact it will have on federal and state efforts to reopen the economy, we need consistently refreshed data from a large national sample to get out of the quarantine “information bubbles” and see the...
The appeal of contactless payments has skyrocketed since the pandemic hit across the globe. Payment network giants such as Visa and Mastercard said in their most recent earnings reports that contactless payments, especially in face-to-face transactions, surged by double digits year over year. Get the Full...
Payment orchestration platforms (POPs) are suddenly everywhere as solution-shopping for the great American reopening gets underway in earnest. The inaugural edition of the Payments Powering the Platform Economy Report, a collaboration of PYMNTS and Payoneer, offers an in-depth examination of how tailoring payments to geographic...
With a new feature that takes away the need to use a debit or credit card, Kroger has rolled out its Kroger Pay contactless payment option. The function lets shoppers connect their payment information to their loyalty account at the grocery chain via an app...
To retain and fuel student enrollment for the 2020-2021 academic year, vertical payments company Flywire has unveiled a new framework. The “Planning with Confidence in the COVID-19 Era” report is based on input from institutions, global student communities and industry affiliations with insights to help...