July 30, 2023
Booking Holdings Offers Concessions to EU for €1.6bn Purchase of...
Booking Holdings Inc., one of the world’s leading online travel companies, has offered concessions to the European Union (EU) in order to convince the antitrust regulators to approve its €1.6bn...
July 29, 2023
Embracing Disloyalty: Are Consumers Rewriting Rewards Programs?
With the resurgence of travel and consumers increasingly relying on credit to pursue their experiences, one might assume that brand loyalty would become more straightforward. However, even during times of...
July 28, 2023
This Week in Payments: Card Networks Strong, Crypto Regs in...
This week in payments, Mastercard and Visa both posted strong numbers in the quarter that just ended, cryptocurrency regulation is poised to take a major step forward, and Shopify equipped...
July 28, 2023
Beike Finance and XP Surge as FinTech IPO Index Heads...
The platforms held sway this past week, gaining some ground ahead of earnings due through the next several days. And as a result, the FinTech IPO Index was up 0.5%...
July 27, 2023
Highest EU Court Reinforces Merger Control in Telco Sector and...
By Antonio Bavasso, Josh Buckland & Michael Tagliavini1 I. Introduction and Overview On July 13, 2023, the highest EU court – the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) – handed...
July 27, 2023
Mastercard: Click to Pay Transactions Surge 70% Over Last Year’s...
New payment flows and Click to Pay transactions surged for Mastercard in the second quarter of 2023 as consumers and businesses continued to turn to digital channels as their spending remained buoyant. Earnings materials from...
July 27, 2023
Affirm Lets Cathay Pacific Travelers ‘Pay Over Time’
Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has chosen Affirm as its U.S. “pay-over-time” partner. The partnership, announced Thursday (July 27), lets the air carrier’s customers use Affirm’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering to purchase tickets and...
July 27, 2023
Upgrade’s $100M Deal for Uplift Brings BNPL for Travelers Into...
The build vs. buy debate is a perennial one in technology, and in payments. For neobank Upgrade, in the bid to extend its credit, mobile banking and payment products to...
July 26, 2023
The Digital Economy Touches Twice as Many High-Income Earners as...
Effects of the pandemic continue to be felt, and one area of marked change is in the use of the digitally connected economy, which is not as evenly distributed yet...
