Truecaller Thinks It Can Beat Paytm In India

While Sweden’s Truecaller is not new to the Indian payments ecosystem, it entered the India mobile market over a year ago during...

Developing Inclusion With Digital Products

Things that seem routine to some of us can present monumental challenges to others. For someone just starting out, coming up with the...

Stuzo: Open Platforms Give Station Operators A Hand At The Pump

CSI Digitizes Corporates’ Utility Payments With New Partnership

Corporate Spending Innovations, formerly known as CSI globalVCard, announced on Wednesday (June 6) a partnership with THG Energy Solutions in an effort...

NovoPayment CEO: LATAM Banks’ Digital Journey Starts With The Value Chain

Moving from cash to digital in Latin America is a process that requires not only the right technology, but the right types...

Sage: Changing B2B Payments Behavior

In its latest research, business intelligence firm RFI found that most millennials in the U.K. actually trust PayPal more than they do...

Can Biometrics-Based mPOS Offerings Build Loyalty?

Here’s one way to remove mobile wallet friction — don’t ask consumers to use one at the point of sale. The mPOS...

How Big Of A Splash Will China’s ‘Social Credit’ Make?

Add “social credit” to the list of factors that could influence the Chinese economy — and, perhaps, consumer activity in other parts...

Around The World With Payments And Commerce

The good news about living in a flat world is that it is increasingly connected and accessible — a big opportunity for...

TRENDING: mPOS That Turns Fingerprints Into Payments

New developments in the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) space are coming to the rescue for both merchants and consumers who don’t like to...

Latin America Enjoys A Boost In Its Digital Prospects

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? That longstanding question gained...

Paytm Accused Of Sharing User Data With Indian Government

Paytm, the leading digital wallet company in India with more than 230 million customers, has reportedly shared the personal data of users...

Comdata Opens Up Digital Payment Tool To Trucking Businesses

The trucking industry just got a bit more mobile — at least, that’s the position of Comdata. Comdata, the payment services arm...

PayPal’s Ready On iZettle Buy And Taking SMBs Multi-Channel

The omnicommerce headlines, PayPal COO Bill Ready noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster, tend to be dominated by the big players and...

The Future Of Augmented Reality Is Becoming Clearer

Recent moves from PayPal and Target have brought fresh attention to the use of augmented reality (AR) to boost commerce and payments....

Who Wins And Loses In PayPal’s iZettle Deal

PayPal last week announced it will acquire Swedish payments company iZettle in a cash deal valued at $2.2 billion, which is expected...

The Gig Economy’s $1.2T Digital Payments Potential

A smart entrepreneur dropped out of college, identified an unmet market need and created an entirely new market segment. He did it...

Mastercard Launches Accelerate To Help FinTechs Scale

Mastercard announced on Monday (May 21) the creation of Accelerate, a new initiative to drive growth in the FinTech industry. In a...

How An Intel Deal For Car Tech Could Boost Digital Commerce

More web surfing, more digital commerce, more coffee consumption — a recent deal involving autonomous car technology and Intel seems certain to at...

Mastercard Launches Solution For Connected Fleet Vehicles

Mastercard has launched a new service that will automatically integrate fuel and maintenance data from a connected fleet car’s dashboard into the...

Square App Is Closing In On PayPal’s Venmo

Square may be closing in on PayPal a bit, with the company’s monthly downloads of the Square Cash app increasing at a...

Ant Financial Has More Than 600 Million Users

Ant Financial, the Chinese payment affiliate of Alibaba, has more than 600 million users, the first time the company has said how...

Apple Pay Offers Free Instacart Delivery Promo

Apple is rolling out a new promotion for Apple Pay this week, offering customers free grocery delivery with Instacart when they make...

Paytm To Invest To Expand Bank Transfers

Paytm, the Indian-based digital payments company, is gearing up to invest Rs 5,000 crore during the next three years as it aims...

Wells Fargo To Start Testing Pay With Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo announced news on Thursday (May 10) of the launch of Pay with Wells Fargo, a new service for its mobile...

MoneyGram Seeks More Digital Gains In 2018

MoneyGram’s first-quarter revenue and earnings missed Wall Street expectations on Tuesday (May 8), but the company is reporting early benefits from a...

iZettle To List On Nasdaq Stockholm This Year

iZettle, the mobile payments company, disclosed Tuesday (May 8) that it will list on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2018. According to...

Maybe Going Cashless Is Not The Best Bet — Here Are Some Reasons Why

Not so fast with banning cash — that’s one of the messages coming out of the payments and food service world this...

Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

Finding one’s soulmate isn’t easy. In fact, physicist, NASA roboticist and “What If” author Randall Munroe says that, scientifically speaking, it’s impossible. The...

Airline Industry And Deutsche Bank To Roll Out Electronic Payment System

The airline industry, in conjunction with Deutsche Bank, is trying to challenge credit card companies with a new digital payment system to...

Google Pay Now Available On The Internet

Google Pay, the digital payment service, is no longer relegated only to mobile devices — Google has announced that it is now available on...

Mastercard To Bring Santander Debit Cards To The UK

Mastercard and Santander announced a partnership that will issue debit cards to all the bank’s retail account customers on Mastercard’s network. According...

Stripe Gives Atlas LLC Capabilities

Stripe, the digital payment company, pushed forward on its diversification strategy Monday (April 30) with the announcement that it is expanding its...

Mastercard, IFC Expand Partnerships To Bring Digital Payments To Emerging Markets

Mastercard and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, announced Thursday (April 26) that they have updated a $250 million global...

Barclays, PayPal Team Up To Let Customers Use Their Accounts Together

Barclays, the U.K. bank, announced  Thursday (April 26) that it has inked a new strategic partnership with PayPal aimed at enabling customers...

PayPal Adds 8M Active Users, Grows Mobile Volume 52 Percent 

“I’m pleased to say PayPal had another quarter of great results and we’re off to a great start in the new year,”...

Socure’s Names Tom Thimot New CEO As Sunil Madhu Becomes New CSO

Socure, the provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, announced Wednesday (April 25)  that it names Tom Thimot Chief Executive Officer....

Under New Deal, eBay To Offer PayPal Through July Of 2023

PayPal and eBay announced Monday (April 23) that the two have inked a new agreement in which eBay will offer PayPal as a...

Walmart Files Patent For Blockchain Payment System

To store payment data, Walmart may be looking to the blockchain. The retailer drafted two patent applications that reference a platform powered by...

Google Pay Now Installed More Than 100 Million Times

Google’s redesign of Google Pay, its digital payment service, appears to be paying off — the company passed the 100 million mark...

Mastercard: Secure Remote Commerce Will Accelerate Unified Digital Checkout

It’s easy to take for granted how consistent in-store payments with cards have become for consumers; there isn’t a lot of mystery...

Visa Digital Commerce Aims To Streamline, Standardize Digital Checkout

Ubiquity of acceptance is payments’ holy grail. It’s an experience that people living in the developed world have learned to expect each...

Entersekt: Banks And The ‘Transaction Pipe’ Trap

When a customer uses a credit or debit card at the point of sale, Entersekt chief commercial officer Dewald Nolte told PYMNTS in a...

Hub’s Blockchain’s Bid To Decentralize Trust And Strengthen Digital Ecosystems

Trust is the most valuable of assets, and the currency of our digital future. In the wave of concerns over data privacy...

Santander Launches International Payment App Based On Ripple’s Blockchain Tech

Banco Santander, the Spanish bank, announced on Thursday (April 12) the launch of a new international payments service that is based on...

It’s A Small (Connected By Payments) World After All

Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd, and nothing sparks ignition faster than the fact that something is already popular. Digital payments...

Kenyans Can Now Connect M-PESA Accounts To PayPal

PayPal and Safaricom announced a new collaboration that will enable people living in Kenya to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts....

Some Swedes Contend Cashless Society Puts The Country At Risk

While most Swedes have embraced the movement toward a cashless society, there is a growing number who are worried about the rush,...

Square On Canadian Merchants And Cash(less) Payments

Today’s average Canadian consumer is more cash-enthused than their average American counterpart. Canadians still make about 51 percent of their purchases in cash,...

Walmart Taps WeChat For Western Region Of China In A Blow To Alipay

In what is seen as a blow to Alipay, Walmart inked a deal with rival Tencent Holdings to use WeChat Pay, its...