Payment innovation needs payments infrastructure, and payments infrastructure needs usability. These are the twin engines of scalability, and design contributes heavily to the user experience (UX) layer. “One of the most difficult things to do is creating exemplary experiences and doing that consistently across a...
eBay says it is making Checkout.com its newest global payments acquiring partner. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 16), is designed to provide a more seamless commerce experience for shoppers on eBay, with Checkout.com’s technology, data and global acquiring expertise helping eBay to maximize payment acceptance....
The pandemic sent us all online to get the goods and services we needed — and if we weren’t comfortable using a mobile device to scroll and click through to a purchase, that discomfort fell by the wayside with haste. In the post-pandemic world, we’ve...
Credit cards remain among the most popular vehicles for payments — for both planned and unplanned expenses — and for many consumers, stretching out payments over time holds particular appeal. In doing so, via card installment plans, households are able to get what they need,...
Trust and familiarity are central to the payments experience. At the end of the day, consumers won’t pay with methods they don’t know much about or aren’t used to. And that’s fine, or it used to be, when the primary options available were card or...
Consumers are less confident about economics — on a macro and a personal level — than they have been for quite a while. They’re mulling where they can throttle back spending, and in other cases they may be shifting how they want to pay, using...
Despite its potential, pay by bank, or open banking payments, remains a largely untapped opportunity, but a new report suggests that the right incentives could be the key to unlocking widespread consumer adoption. The collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Trustly, titled “What Consumers Need for...
The standalone Zelle app can no longer be used for sending or receiving money, and users are being invited to enroll to use the peer-to-peer payment method through a participating bank or credit union’s app. Zelle had announced in an Oct. 31 blog post that...
FinTech company QorPay collaborated with Cybersource to integrate Visa Platform Connect (VPC) and other Visa value-added services into QorPay’s payment ecosystem. QorPay is a provider of payment solutions, while Cybersource is an open, network-agnostic ecosystem from Visa Acceptance Solutions that offers modular payments services, the companies said in a Thursday (March...