April 23, 2024
Visa CEO: ‘Long Runway’ Ahead as Digital Payments, Credentials Displace...
Visa is seeing continued momentum in Tap to Pay and digital credential issuance, as consumers continue to spend on their debit and credit cards. CEO Ryan McInerney said on the...
April 23, 2024
Thunes Tackles US Gaming Market With Tilia Acquisition
Cross-border payments firm Thunes is set to acquire all-in-one-payments platform Tilia. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 23), is aimed at speeding Thunes’ growth in the U.S. and its presence in...
April 22, 2024
Airwallex Teams With Bird for Streamlined International Payments
Payments platform Airwallex has launched a partnership with global communications platform Bird, formerly known as MessageBird. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 22), is designed to power Bird’s international payments operations across the company’s customers’...
April 22, 2024
Zil US Enables Swedish Businesses to Open US Payment Accounts
Zil US said Monday (April 22) that its B2B payment platform facilitates global business growth by allowing Swedish entrepreneurs and freelancers to open U.S. payment accounts remotely. The platform also...
April 21, 2024
Digital Birth Certificates Expand Range of Paperless IDs in Connected...
You’ve likely heard of digital driver’s licenses, digital passports, and digital IDs. Now, digital birth certificates are emerging as the latest addition to the digital identity landscape, offering a glimpse into the future...
April 19, 2024
This Week in B2B: Lending Innovations, AI and Digital Payments
The B2B landscape is on the cusp of the next era in payments innovation. As PYMNTS readers already know, this new and exciting era is being driven by an ongoing...
April 19, 2024
Brazil’s Click-and-Mortar™ Shoppers Underpin Pix and Instant Payments Growth
The rise of the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper in Brazil may give some tailwind to the use of Pix, the instant payment system that became operational in the country in late 2020....
April 19, 2024
Making Sense of Why FIs Are Tokenizing Real-World Assets
The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is emerging as more than just a token exercise. It’s another function of the blockchain landscape that has captured the imagination of various players...
April 18, 2024
WorldFirst Launches Cross-Border Payment Solution for B2B Trade
Digital payments platform WorldFirst has debuted a solution to help small businesses speed cross-border payments. WorldTrade, announced Thursday (April 18), is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that procure products from suppliers based...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.