February 04, 2015
PayPal’s Progress In China
In a story last week, PYMNTS reported that Chinese merchants were cooling to PayPal after the U.S. based payments company froze or, in some cases, deducted funds from local accounts...
February 02, 2015
The Nuts And Bolts Of Earnings Season
We don’t know about you, but we think that the payments earnings season, so far, has given us all a ringside seat into the future of our business and how...
January 19, 2015
Payments Industry Pairings and Partings In 2015
Here we are – 19 days into a new year and midway in the month known apparently as “divorce month.” According to companies that track this sort of stuff, January...
January 14, 2015
Alibaba Will Block Dangerous Toys From Entering The US
Alibaba has agreed to block the sale of as many as 15 illegal or dangerous toys in the U.S., the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The agreement...
January 02, 2015
Apple Pay’s Impact On Payments
Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount...
December 31, 2014
The Year Of Interesting (And Disruptive) Payments Plays
While our mother’s told us that it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, (only how you play the game), as adults we realize that our mothers only told us that because we...
December 31, 2014
Cross Border A Big Winner This Holiday Season
It’s clear that e-commerce was a winner this holiday season, but that growth also brought about an expansion across another industry that’s growing in popularity: cross-border e-commerce. After all, if...
December 29, 2014
Did You Listen To Your Payments’ Sixth Sense This Year?
Yep. It’s that time of the year – when we pause to reflect on the year that was as we prepare to embark on the year that will be. And,...
December 26, 2014
More Shoppers Go Global
Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press. A PayPal report...