April 04, 2023
eGrocery Falls Flat When Startups Try to Reinvent the Wheel
From Instacart’s increased valuation to Boxed’s bankruptcy filing, online grocery is seeing major changes. While players that attempt to drive adoption of their own digital grocery stores are struggling to...
April 04, 2023
Boxed Bankruptcy Shows Cracks in Pandemic’s SPAC Funding Frenzy
It seems like a lifetime ago — SPACs were the “it” way to take companies public. And during the pandemic, eCommerce delivery businesses were the “it” business model. The disruptors,...
April 04, 2023
Allianz Trade and Bueno.money Partner on B2B BNPL
Allianz Trade in Asia Pacific and Bueno.money have partnered on B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL). This collaboration brings together Allianz Trade’s credit and risk management experience and Bueno.money’s B2B...
April 04, 2023
PhonePe Launches eCommerce App Built on India’s ONDC Network
Payments platform PhonePe has launched an eCommerce app built on India’s ONDC network. The new Pincode app launched Tuesday (April 4) in Bengalaru and will expand to other cities soon,...
April 04, 2023
How the Last Five Years Will Shape the Next Five...
The old maxim says the more things change, the more they stay the same. The payments industry may have disproved that wisdom, at least in part, as world-shaking events keep...
April 03, 2023
JCB and Fiserv Team to Increase Card Acceptance in Europe
JCB cards can now be accepted by merchants in the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland. This expansion follows JCB International’s formation of a new multiregional collaboration with Fiserv, which provides...
April 03, 2023
Google Pay to Reimburse Travelers if Airline Ticket Price Drops
Amid the great travel rebound, the scramble to book flights and pay for them leads to something else entirely. Let’s call it booking envy. Log on, submit payment, and then...
April 03, 2023
Onfleet Teams With Aeropay for Faster Cannabis Delivery
Onfleet has teamed with Aeropay, a digital payments provider for the cannabis industry. The partnership, announced Monday (April 3), will see Aeropay integrate its payments platform with Onfleet’s last-mile delivery...
April 03, 2023
Walmart Debuts Website and App Redesign for Optimized Omnichannel Experiences
Walmart has debuted a redesigned mobile app and homepage for walmart.com to inspire customers at a time when discretionary purchases are on the decline, in a bid to inspire more...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Despite the tremendous growth in Click-and-Mortar™ shopping in Brazil over the last three years, the country’s retailers don’t offer 39% of the features that consumers want. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, draws on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622 merchants to reveal what Brazil’s merchants need to know to drive consumer satisfaction and loyalty.