June 11, 2013
Slyce Aims For Instant eCommerce Gratification
The payments industry is constantly abuzz with news surrounding the point of sale. If Canadian startup Slyce has its way, we’ll be talking about the “point of interest” plenty, too....
June 06, 2013
Turkey’s Payments Power, France’s Digital Denial And The New M-Pesa
The payments industry is a compelling space, but it’s a time consuming one as well. You might not have time to keep track of every major story and trend or...
June 06, 2013
SumUp Speaks On Visa Ready Selection
Visa recently announced its partnership with three mobile POS providers to facilitate the acceptance of Visa payments through mobile technology, as part of its Visa Ready Program. SumUp, a European...
June 04, 2013
Safaricom Updates M-Pesa
Safaricom, a leading mobile network operator in Kenya, is embarking on a major update to its M-Pesa mobile money system, according to a Business Daily Africa report. M-Pesa, a mobile-phone...
May 30, 2013
On Liberty Reserve And Virtual Currencies
Welcome to PYMNTS.com’s VC Voices: a weekly column where we bring you commentary from the best of the best around the world of payments investment. Want to know what the...
May 28, 2013
Report: Google To Add In-App Payments To Chrome
Google is adding in-app payments for Chrome packaged apps, according to a The Next Web report. Developer Francois Beaufort first discovered the addition, which lets users install the Chrome Wallet...
May 27, 2013
The Best Defense Against Chargebacks Is A Good Offense
Disputes between merchants and customers happen every day, but whether they are initiated because of a poor product or improperly performed service, they not only reflect poorly on the merchant,...
May 21, 2013
Aisle411 Aims To Be Shoppers’ In-Store GPS
Do supermarket aisles have you on an endless search for specialty items? Spending minutes wandering the same aisle? Sick of flagging down store clerks only to be pointed in the...
May 16, 2013
BitPay Takes The Bait, Grabs $2 Million From Founders Fund
The increasingly popular virtual currency bitcoin has hit the scene with the force of a number-one draft pick, taking what some thought to be a losing idea in digital money...
Activity in the global real-time payments landscape remains strong, with NetXD’s cloud solution aiding the smooth onboarding and integration of banks onto the RTP® network in the U.S., while in Canada, the eagerly awaited Real-Time Rail payment system steadily advances toward completion and launch. This edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, examines the latest developments fueling the rapid expansion of instant transactions worldwide.
Life as a freelancer is not easy, with late payments often leading to financial strain. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 22-page report, “Generation Instant: How Freelancers Use Instant Payments to Reduce Financial Hardship,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, contains five charts of proprietary data exploring how and why freelancers rely so much on instant payments.