February 22, 2011
Google Takes a Bite of the Apple
Google and Apple made news last week when they announced their respective plans to help publishers monetize their content. Less than 24 hours after Cupid worked his magic on Valentine’s...
December 21, 2010
Nokia Veteran on the Future of Mobile Financial Services
Mobey Forum, a not-for-profit organization working to make the mobile financial services ecosystem prosperous and profitable, recently appointed Sirpa Nordlund as its new Executive Director. She follows Liisa Kannianen, who...
December 20, 2010
Social Commerce: Who’s Turning Visits into Cash?
‘Tis the season to be shopping, and retailers have their fingers crossed that this year’s sales will shine a little brighter in comparison to the last two years. This article...
December 20, 2010
Sterling Looks to Take Payments Technology to the Next Level
Sterling Payment Technologies is aiming to join the ranks of the premier merchant acquiring processors. Helping to lead this drive and the company’s pursuit of innovation in payments technology is...
December 19, 2010
New Gift Card Rules Expected to Make Holiday Season Merrier...
As the first holiday shopping season since the enactment of new rules governing gift cards approaches, businesses have an opportunity to maximize their gift card programs. The new rules were...
December 16, 2010
Wheeling and Dealing Through 2011
On this seventh day of Christmas, are you, too, having trouble finding those elusive seven swans a-swimmin’? Well, it just might be that one of the thousands of online deal...
December 12, 2010
Is 2011 the Year for Social Commerce?
2011 will be the year that social commerce begins to take root on Facebook with solutions that are both merchant and customer friendly. To be fair, pundits have been talking...
December 05, 2010
Ignition Strategies: How to Launch a Platform Business
Getting a new product off the ground is one of the great challenges in business. That’s well documented for entrepreneurs. VCs don’t get any return from more than 40 percent...
November 08, 2010
Transcript: What’s Next in Payments in Europe
(Watch Video: What’s Next in Payments in Europe) DAVID S. EVANS: Hello everyone, this is David Evans. Today I’m with Maria Carioca. She’s a senior executive at the leading processor...
As Americans increasingly rely on BNPL for essentials, November is poised for record spending via this payment method, with 1 in 5 consumers planning to use it. The latest “FinTech Tracker®,” a collaboration with Sezzle, examines the economic forces driving this upswing, BNPL’s shift from optional to necessary spending, and the mounting calls from critics for stronger regulations and safeguards.
Split-payment plans like BNPL are gaining traction, with 3 in 5 shoppers having used these options in the last year. There’s a “but” — merchants and acquirers aren’t sure which plans have the most appeal to consumers or when to present them in the purchase flow. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest report, “Divided, Not Conquered: Acquirer and Merchant Confusion Clouds Split-Payments Landscape,” a collaboration with Splitit, draws from multiple surveys of consumers and executives to get a 360-degree view of the split-payment space — the facts and the gaps.