October 17, 2022
FTC Probes Competition In Visa, Mastercard Debit Routing Practices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly looking into whether Mastercard and Visa’s security tokens prevent debit-card routing competition on certain digital payments. That’s according to a Monday (Oct. 17) report by The Wall Street Journal...
October 17, 2022
Bond Financial Technologies, i2c Partner on Credit Card-as-a-Service
Embedded finance platform Bond Financial Technologies has partnered with digital payment and banking technology provider i2c to launch credit card-as-a-service solutions. The Bond Credit Builder Card allows businesses to offer...
October 17, 2022
Report: FTC Probes Visa, Mastercard Over Debit Security Tokens
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly looking into whether Mastercard and Visa’s security tokens prevent debit-card routing competition on certain digital payments. That’s according to a Monday (Oct. 17)...
October 17, 2022
Mastercard Teams With Paxos to Help Banks With Crypto Trading
Mastercard is expanding its partnership with cryptocurrency trading platform Paxos by launching Crypto Source, a new program to help financial institutions (FIs) up their game when it comes to crypto...
October 17, 2022
Global Sellers Localize Payments to Convert Abandoned Carts in APAC
Unlocking potential in the burgeoning market for luxury goods in the Asia-Pacific region isn’t a job for payments lightweights. It’s serious business with major challenges. During a recent PYMNTS panel...
October 14, 2022
B2B eCommerce Firm Papmall Debuts Cross-Border Freelance Payments
B2B eCommerce platform papmall has upgraded its services to allow businesses to send cross-border payments to freelancers. “Freelancers may become frustrated and leave the current platform if they experience frequent...
October 14, 2022
Stubborn Inflation Continues Devouring Retail Sales as Consumers Grow Cautious
People are thinking twice before opening their wallets as inflation continues to run rampant, devouring retail sales in most categories last month and aligning with increases in the Consumer Price...
October 12, 2022
Today in the Connected Economy: Netflix Takes Page From Disney...
Today in the connected economy, Netflix follows in the tradition of Disney by opening a pop-up store selling merchandise connected to its programming. Plus, Mastercard invests in African technology firm...
October 12, 2022
EMEA Daily: Mastercard Backs nClude to Boost Financial Inclusion, FinTech...
Today in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Mastercard announced an investment in Egypt’s FinTech-focused venture capital platform nClude and HSBC launched a new digital receivables finance solution. HSBC, Trade...
