November 26, 2014
Visa Europe: Save Us From Lower Interchange And Alt-Payments
Visa Europe has launched a publicity campaign to derail payment-card reforms passed last year by the European Commission that include caps on interchange fees, rollbacks of many of Visa's rules...
November 25, 2014
Casino Money-Laundering Probe Raises Cross-Border Payments Issues
In the world of payments, casinos are highly-complex players, with an unusually high mix of cash and cross-border transactions. That’s one of the reasons federal investigators are probing Wynn Resorts...
November 22, 2014
Let’s Get Ready To Retail
In just about a week, Americans – fortified by turkey and stuffing, maxxed out on football and ready to flee the visiting relatives, will participate in one of the most...
November 20, 2014
BlueSnap, First Data Partner For Better Global Payments Processing
BlueSnap announced Thursday (Nov. 20) that it had formed a new partnership with First Data to process payments around the world in a manner that provides secure cross-border payment capabilities for...
November 18, 2014
Pressure Packs Too Much On Alibaba’s Jack Ma
As a company that went public just a few months ago, Alibaba continued to show its strength when it shattered sales records on Nov. 11 with Singles’ Day sales of...
November 12, 2014
How To Triple Global Commerce In Ten Years
Want to know how to triple the flow of commerce cross-border over the next ten years? Just remove the friction from how small businesses conduct commerce globally. That, cross-border payments...
November 10, 2014
The Globalization Of B2B Virtual Accounts
Markus Straussfeld, head of international cash management at UniCredit (an Italian bank focusing on cross-border payments), argues that the latest moved forward by the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) will...
November 07, 2014
Shoprunner Alipay Partnership Brings eCommerce to Chinese Consumers
ShopRunner announced Thursday (Nov. 6) that it has expanded its E-commerce presence through a new partnership that will connect more U.S. retailers with online shoppers in China. This partnership with...
October 29, 2014
How Much Of A B2B Payments Role Should Bitcoin Play?
The payments industry has cast a weary eye on Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, but a column in SpendMatters.com asks whether B2B payment folk shouldn’t seriously consider evaluating Bitcoin. “We...
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 cross-border payments, making transactions faster and more seamless — but U.K. consumers are lagging behind businesses in adoption. The latest “Global Money Movement” data brief, a collaboration with TerraPay, explores the gap between consumer and merchant adoption, the role of generational trends, and what it will take to accelerate digital wallet usage across the U.K.