- November 27, 2023
Australia is set to introduce legislation governing the use of Apple Pay and other digital wallets.
The new rules, scheduled to be announced this week, would place this payment method under the same regulatory ...
- October 20, 2023
Banks in the U.S. report a rapid increase in fraud and fraud losses, highlighting the urgent need for newer and better anti-fraud technologies. The rise of digital banking and faster ...
- September 12, 2023
Consumer payments platform Nelo has joined forces with Paymentology to drive financial inclusion in Mexico.
The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Sept. 12), will see Paymentology — a U.K.-based card issuer — supporting Nelo’s Mastercard in-person payments through Billetera de ...
- August 22, 2023
To regain access to a steady flow of dollars, Binance.US, the American arm of the cryptocurrency exchange, has teamed up with MoonPay, a payment startup.
Binance.US has faced numerous legal and ...
- August 22, 2023
Beyond, a revenue management solution for vacation rental managers and owners, has unveiled Tally, a payment processing solution specifically designed for the vacation rental industry.
As noted in a Tuesday (Aug. ...
- June 18, 2023
Japan is looking to boost competition among app stores and payments.
A government panel released a report Friday (June 16) saying that app store operators should not be able to force ...
- 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 ...
- May 5, 2023
Velmie has added a card module to its composable white-label solution for FinTech companies and banks.
The new card module is part of an updated product that includes a range of new ...
- April 18, 2023
Payments firm Fiserv says it can eliminate the wait associated with new physical debit cards.
The company announced Tuesday (April 18) that its capabilities let cardholders access new or replacement cards electronically.
“Cardholders now can access ...
- April 11, 2023
Call it peer-to-peer or person-to-person, but P2P is taking on new significance in a troubled economy where splitting the restaurant bill or lending your friend a few dollars is a ...
- April 3, 2023
Amid the great travel rebound, the scramble to book flights and pay for them leads to something else entirely.
Let’s call it booking envy. Log on, submit payment, and then (we’ve ...
- March 6, 2023
The payment methods favored by those on stable financial footing compared to those struggling to meet bills is often a tale of living strictly within one’s means or having the ...
- February 17, 2023
We’re going online, more often, to buy the electronic gadgets that keep us online.
As noted in our most report on digital commerce, “The Ascent of Digital Wallets,” consumers’
“share” of eCommerce ...
- 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 ...
- February 13, 2023
With digital wallets now being used more after a years-long ramp-up, there’s a new battle brewing over which wallets consumers both know and trust with their payment credentials.
Big Tech pulled ...
- February 7, 2023
Battle lines are being drawn in the new artificial intelligence-powered search struggle between Microsoft and Google, and how that spills over into commerce will make waves.
Microsoft’s most recent investment in OpenAI, the ...
- February 7, 2023
Autofill solved a lot of problems for eCommerce — especially friction at checkout.
Peeyush Ranjan, vice president and general manager of Google Pay, told Karen Webster that being able to fill ...
- December 8, 2022
Google Pay has reportedly won permission to operate as a payment institution in Brazil.
The move helps the company expand its footprint in Latin America’s largest economy at the of a ...
- September 22, 2022
Today in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (EMEA), the pan-African payment firm Flutterwave announced that merchants using its business platform will now be able to accept payments via Google ...
- September 22, 2022
Pan-African payment platform Flutterwave has announced a Google Pay integration that will allow merchants using Flutterwave for business, the San Francisco-based firm’s eCommerce platform, to accept the payment method.
In a ...
- July 21, 2022
Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com has launched an in-app purchase feature on Google Pay, which lets users easily buy cryptocurrencies, according to a Thursday (July 21) press release emailed to PYMNTS.
Users ...
- May 12, 2022
The connected ecosystem moves beyond promise into reality when we have every piece of our digital lives easily accessible, easily retrieved and used.
Bill Ready, president of Commerce at Google, told ...
- March 27, 2022
Apple has closed a loophole that was allowing some Russians to keep using its mobile payment service even though the economic sanctions have been ongoing, an Engadget report says.
The company ...
- December 21, 2021
Mastercard and Google Pay are teaming up to launch tokenization that will enable users in India to make payments using a secure digital token without the need to share debit ...
- December 7, 2021
The partnership management platform impact.com has announced a new integration with Google Pay, designed to give customers access to updated premium offers.
“With at least four out of 10 U.S. smartphone ...
- November 30, 2021
European digital banking and payments provider PPS has debuted Google Pay functionality in the U.K. through challenger bank customer Monese, according to a press release.
The rollout signifies growth for the ...
- November 18, 2021
Google Pay will be adding features that enable users to enter account numbers and initiate payments using their voice, split bills within a group and, for merchants, easily build an ...
- November 2, 2021
Groupon users will be able to access deals on Google Pay beginning in 2022, TheStreet reported. The deal sent Groupon shares surging.
Users of Google Pay will be able to access ...
- October 29, 2021
As we’ve learned through a series of studies this year, paycheck-to-paycheck living is more widespread than previously thought, including high earners and other consumers not traditionally associated with making ends ...
- October 8, 2021
The digital asset marketplace Bakkt is working with Google on a project that will extend access to digital assets to millions of new customers.
Bakkt announced the partnership on Friday (Oct. ...
- September 20, 2021
Digital wallet platform Google Pay has expanded access to include more than 80 banks in Switzerland, as well as financial institutions in Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Italy, Romania, Singapore and ...
- September 12, 2021
Google Pay is setting up for a launch in Israel by the end of 2021, The Jerusalem Post reported. This follows the successful launch of Apple Pay there previously.
Earlier in ...
- August 30, 2021
The Australian government is looking into the best way to overhaul its current infrastructure for financial regulation to enable stronger oversight of digital wallets and payments from Big Tech companies ...
- August 11, 2021
Cryptocurrency payment services provider BitPay announced Wednesday (Aug. 11) in a press release that U.S. BitPay Prepaid Mastercard holders can add their cards to Google Wallet and spend their Bitcoin ...
- July 14, 2021
The mobile wallet race officially became the mobile wallet war Wednesday, after Facebook announced plans to support the use of its Facebook Pay system on sites outside of its ecosystem. This first ...
- May 11, 2021
In today’s top news, Affirm’s earnings report showed growth in spending and the use of installment payments, and grocery competitors are beginning to worry Walmart executives, according to a leaked ...
- May 11, 2021
Remittances is a massive global opportunity: Every year, some $700 billion in funds flows across national borders as migrant workers ship funds earned working abroad back to friends and family ...
- April 25, 2021
Four people linked to Turkish crypto exchange Vebitcoin have been arrested and accused of fraud, according to a report from BBC. Officials launched an investigation and blocked the accounts of ...
- March 22, 2021
In today’s top news, Google Pay’s Caesar Sengupta plans to step down in April, and Visa will raise its interchange fees on transactions between the EU and U.K. this fall. ...
- March 1, 2021
Offering contactless cards can come at an added cost, but it can pay off in the long run for credit unions (CUs). In the Credit Union Tracker, Navy Federal Credit ...
