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...
July 11, 2016
EU Looks Inward On Bank Failure Regulations
As the European Union looks to streamline and clarify the rules regarding how to impose losses on bank creditors on failing banks and ensure creditors are appropriately burdened by those...
July 10, 2016
The Data Dive: The Brexit Blues, Amex’s Lending Power-Play, Lyft...
Normally we reserve the opening sentence of the Data Dive for a joke about the week’s news. This week, with the string of tragic events nationwide, we can think of nothing...
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.
Credit is moving from rigid rules to real-time intelligence as AI agents act on transactions at the speed of signal. The inaugural “ABCs of AI Credit: A Playbook for Issuers,” a collaboration with Thredd, shows issuers how to put agentic decisioning to work to lift approvals, cut friction and control risk.