July 18, 2016
Lending Club, Amex, Airbnb And PayPal: Why Payments Never Bores
While most people have used some variation of the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction,” few know that they should be attributing it to Lord Byron, who first inserted the...
July 15, 2016
When Suds Go X-Border
American craft breweries are thriving, and the taste for made-in-the-USA suds is increasingly crossing borders with sudsy abandon. In the July edition of the X-Border Optimization Tracker, PYMNTS caught up...
July 15, 2016
Canadian Bank Completes 20-Second Cross-Border Payment
One of Canada’s largest banks has sent one of the world’s first real-time cross-border payments, it claimed this week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
July 14, 2016
Craft Beer’s Cross-Border Journey
American craft breweries are thriving and the taste for made-in-the-USA suds is increasingly crossing borders with sudsy abandon. In the July edition of the X-Border Optimization Tracker, PYMNTS caught up...
July 13, 2016
Currency, Viewed Through A B2B Cloud
B2B transactions are lagging in the transition from paper checks to digital payments. But cross-border transactions, coupled with cloud technology, are gaining traction in a streamlined manner.
July 12, 2016
PayPal Loops Into B2B Payments
PayPal began stepping into the B2B world with its launch of PayPal Working Capital in 2013; last week, the company revealed it had lent more than $2 billion to SMEs...
July 12, 2016
Paytm Expands Into SMB Lending
India-based mobile wallet firm Paytm generally focuses on consumer payments, but like PayPal, the company is beginning to turn its attention towards SME finance. Get the Full Story Complete the...
July 12, 2016
An Opportune Moment For India’s Global B2B Payments Stage
India is a hotbed for FinTech innovation, with venture capitalists of the industry becoming some of the most active on the market today. This year, the popular trend for VCs...
July 11, 2016
Russian eCommerce May Have Hit A Wall
Online commerce culture has matured in just about every developed country to the point that consumers aren’t quite as dazzled by the experience as they may have been years ago. This can...
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.
In Saudi Arabia, digital wallet adoption is surging for cross-border payments, especially among younger consumers. Small and medium-sized businesses, however, face hurdles with security and cost, making addressing these concerns crucial for wider adoption. The latest data brief, “Global Money Movement: U.S. Edition,” a collaboration with TerraPay, explores the landscape of digital wallet usage in the Middle Eastern country, highlighting the generational and business-size divides in this rapidly evolving market.