April 15, 2015
How Hyperwallet Sees The Future Of Cross-Border Payments
With leading cross-border innovators showing how they cracked the code on converting shoppers to buyers, the “From Global To Local” panel at Innovation Project last month proved to be one...
April 13, 2015
The Year of Payments – 2015 – One Quarter In
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Sheep. Sheep, so says the Chinese astrological calendar, are gentle, calm and cute – animals seen as symbols...
April 13, 2015
CFPB Targets PayPal Credit
PayPal is in settlement talks with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the run-up to its split from eBay, the company said in a filing last week with the...
April 10, 2015
eBay CEO Talks PayPal, eBay And The Future of Marketplaces
Generally speaking, among untrustworthy statements “we’ll still be friends,” when uttered in the context of people breaking up, ranks right up there with “the check is in the mail.” Luckily,...
April 10, 2015
Bringing Innovation To Global Mass Payments
Delivering mass payments in the corporate world – globally, quickly and efficiently – takes the right technology platform and the right network of financial institutions to pull off. That’s why...
April 10, 2015
Bitcoin Goes Presidential And Buttercoin Goes Belly Up
As quickly as bitcoin prices rise or dip, so does the number of bitcoin services that enter the market with the aim to persuade merchants to bring bitcoin onto their...
April 10, 2015
Stopping $6.4 Billion Worth Of Post-EMV Fraud
By 2018, card fraud is expected to more than double, reaching $6.4 billion. As the U.S. migrates to EMV, CNP fraud in particular is expected to not shockingly spike with...
April 09, 2015
Alipay’s ePass – A Simple Premise With Big Promise
There is more meaning than there used to be in the phrase “just one more thing.” Steve Jobs can be thanked for this. After all, he used those words to introduce...
April 09, 2015
Igniting Mobile Money In India
For most of the developed business world, the phrase “time is money,” is about using time better in order to maximize capital production. For most of India — the cash-centric,...
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.
Digital wallets are transforming how Singaporeans move money across borders. However, consumer awareness lags behind merchant readiness, creating a hurdle to wider use. The latest edition of “Global Money Movement: Singapore Edition,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and TerraPay collaboration, explores the current state of digital wallets for international payments in Singapore.