- November 22, 2023
With the recent news that Amazon is partnering with Hyundai, the conventional wisdom might be to say: Amazon sells pretty much everything else across its platform, and as part of its ...
- September 1, 2023
Stitch together eCommerce ecosystem by eCommerce ecosystem and you get a massive ecosystem, as measured by scale.
Amazon is partnering with Shopify to allow merchants who pay for Shopify’s eCommerce tools to use Amazon’s logistics network. ...
- August 15, 2023
Amazon and Chase say they have expanded their equal monthly payments offering for card members.
The companies announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) that Prime Visa and Amazon Visa cardmembers can now use ...
- August 6, 2023
Amazon has teamed with Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco to offer a credit card in that country.
The launch of the card is set for this week, CEO Octavio de Lazari Jr. ...
- June 9, 2023
The whole point of buy buttons is to cut to the chase, as it were, for customers who have made up their minds and want to pay. This simple approach ...
- June 7, 2023
Amazon has added Affirm’s pay-over-time option to Amazon Pay.
With this addition, eligible United States merchants using Amazon Pay can allow their customers to choose the pay-over-time option at checkout, the companies said in a Wednesday ...
- May 30, 2023
Amazon appears to be trying out new ways to insert its technology into the restaurant ordering experience — part of the eCommerce giant’s bid for digital dominance across all aspects ...
- May 30, 2023
Amazon is experimenting with dine-in payments in India via Amazon Pay.
TechCrunch reported on the change Monday (May 30), noting that users dining at some restaurants in select areas of Bengaluru can make ...
- April 26, 2023
Citi credit card members can now pay over time thanks to a new partnership with Amazon Pay.
The buy now, pay later (BNPL) collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 26) is open to ...
- March 22, 2023
The two-sided network is a simple concept where buyers and sellers come together.
Amazon’s moves in recent days spotlight the eCommerce juggernaut’s ambitions to expand its network for merchants, in effect ...
- March 22, 2023
Amazon Pay has unveiled a tool to give merchants faster access to working capital.
Express Payout is available now for eligible merchants via the company’s Seller Central, Amazon said Tuesday (March ...
- March 3, 2023
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a $375,000 penalty on Amazon Pay (India) Private Limited.
The move followed the central bank and regulatory body’s finding that the firm was ...
- February 16, 2023
Google and Amazon have been cleared to expand their online payments businesses in India.
The country’s central bank on Wednesday (Feb. 15) published a list of 32 companies that have permission to act as online payments ...
- May 20, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. looks for a strategic partner, and Amazon and Walmart are both reportedly in the running.
Also, Square joins forces with artificial intelligence (AI) ...
- May 20, 2022
Digital banking is crossing paths with eCommerce payments as RBL Bank, Amazon Pay and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to offer unified payments interface (UPI) payments, according to ...
- November 8, 2021
With holiday shopping underway earlier than ever for many people this year, retailers and brands have been rolling out deals nonstop for weeks, trying to entice consumers to shop with ...
- February 9, 2021
Buy buttons — click-to-purchase payment innovations that have reduced checkout times by as much as 50 percent — have remained nearly ubiquitous among leading retailers since PYMNTS began tracking them ...
- October 5, 2020
Given that nearly half of U.S. consumers (48 percent) moved the majority of their shopping online during the pandemic — and seeing as how many will stick to digital, avoiding ...
- October 2, 2020
Amazon India has introduced a way for customers to pay their credit card bills through Amazon Pay, the eCommerce company’s payments arm.
Amazon joins companies like India-based digital wallet provider PhonePe, ...
- October 1, 2020
New York City’s shelter-in-place measures profoundly challenged rotating retail concept store Showfields, a business offering an immersive shopping experience for digital-first and digital-only retailers.
Showfields’ four-story location was designed to showcase ...
- September 30, 2020
More than 100 million consumers in the United States have switched from shopping in stores to shopping online since the pandemic began, and 83 percent of them plan to keep ...
- September 10, 2020
COVID-19 has unexpectedly acted as a major boon to the voice commerce ecosystem. Amazon Pay Head of Product Kris Zanuldin told Karen Webster in a recent conversation that we’re seeing ...
- September 9, 2020
There are many ways to mark the massive shift to digital that’s happened in the past six months, from baby boomers who’ve moved online after favoring real-world shopping to merchants ...
- September 8, 2020
Consumers are living in stressful times, and Patrick Gauthier, vice president at Amazon Pay, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that merchants working to prepare for retail’s new normal should ...
- September 4, 2020
Labor Day weekend is here, bring us some welcome respite from a long summer. The PYMNTS Weekender has all the latest reading material on payments and commerce news you’ll need ...
- September 2, 2020
Amazon.com Inc.’s 100 million registered customers in India now have access to more financial services.
In a bid to attract new customers and sell $13 annual subscriptions to Amazon Prime, the ...
- September 1, 2020
“How do I pay for it, without having to touch anything?” is a question almost everyone is asking themselves in the COVID-19 era. And as of Tuesday (Sept. 1), a ...
- May 20, 2020
In today’s top news, Facebook has launched Facebook Shops for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to list their merchandise, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House have moved to rework ...
- May 20, 2020
The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a ...
- April 29, 2020
Amazon Pay has introduced a new credit service in India called Amazon Pay Later that offers merchandise repayment extending as long as 12 months. The eCommerce giant is also partnering ...
- February 25, 2020
Speed is the name of the game in the eCommerce industry. The less time it takes shoppers to complete the checkout process, the less likely they are to abandon their ...
- January 20, 2020
The rumors about hand-based payments out of Amazon have been building for the last few months. In early September 2019, reports emerged that Amazon was testing hand recognition-based payments at Whole ...
- November 5, 2019
Global subscription businesses looking for a fresh crop of customers are setting their sights on emerging markets. These economies are modernizing, and consumers are increasingly becoming connected, making them compelling ...
- November 4, 2019
Amazon customers in India can now book movie tickets on its app or website through a partnership with BookMyShow, Economic Times (ET) reported on Saturday (Nov. 2).
In a five-year exclusive ...
- November 4, 2019
It has happened to almost everyone. The bill comes in the mail — or maybe via email reminder — and the customer says, “Oh, I have to pay this,” then ...
- November 1, 2019
It’s the end of the workweek and the beginning of a new month. And the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything — and that you ...
- October 29, 2019
Amazon is allocating $631 million (₹4,472.50 crore) to fund its Indian bureaus – Amazon Seller Services, Amazon Pay and Amazon Retail – after cutting earlier losses, Deal Street Asia reported ...
- October 28, 2019
Amazon announced during its keynote address at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference on Sunday (Oct. 27) that Amazon Pay users will soon have the ability to pay utility bills ...
- October 16, 2019
Voice commands via Alexa in tandem with Amazon Pay now enables users in India to pay utility, internet, mobile and satellite cable TV bills, as reported on Wednesday (Oct. 16).
India ...
- September 18, 2019
Amazon has revealed that Alexa will now provide users with information on the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The company noted that during the midterm elections last fall, customers turned to Alexa ...
