“Boondoggle” may be a funny word, but to corporations, its effects are serious. Wasted, unnecessary spend is a cash flow trap, yet...
The year 2019 is already shaping up as a big year for deal-making in financial services and payments. Western Union, of course,...
It’s no secret that digital criminals are becoming more sophisticated. So are the fraud defenses deployed by merchants, payment service providers and...
Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about much more than the actual things, of course. All those “smart” appliances, speakers, TVs, vehicles,...
While not every food startup is owned by a chef, the words “hopeless cook” don’t come up all that often among culinary...
Digital marketplaces are zeroing in on customers looking to score last-minutes ticket to events. Gametime, a platform that connects buyers and sellers,...
Money drives any business, but in the freight and logistics market, business cannot occur until funds are moved. Considering how crucial seamless...
Payment infrastructure announcements this week saw memorandums of understanding between Mastercard and Angaza, meant to bring digital payments to emerging markets. Elsewhere,...
Dutch payments processor Adyen logged a Q4 earnings report that came in above analyst expectations. Adyen processes payments for such household names...
Demand for real-time payments is on the rise around the globe, and financial, tech and retail players are angling for a chance...
Risk has rewards in all parts of life, but especially in business, where shrewd risk-taking and planning accrues to the bottom line....
Square's Q4 results showed gross payment volume (GPV) up 28 percent year on year, driven by larger sellers representing more than half...
One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital,...
In the span of about a decade, the smartphone has gone from revolutionary technology to an everyday tool that everyone on Earth...
Among the main virtues of this golden era of eCommerce and digital payments is speed. Seemingly instant access to extremely specific product...
After the delay, the deluge? As has been widely reported, in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed to a deal that...
In an age of eCommerce brands opening up pop-up shops and permanent stores, some companies are taking a different approach to showcasing...
National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints —...
The South African economy has struggled in the last decade. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth has failed to surpass 4 percent, with...
The European Union’s (EU’s) battle against U.S. card company interchange fees reached new levels earlier this year when the European Commission (EC)...
Given its reach into literally every corner of the globe, it is not much of an exaggeration to say that we are...
Lawmakers grilled the heads of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, calling the credit reporting a “broken” system — and new legislation introduced this...
There might be one word that consumers would use to describe the state of disbursements in early 2019: mediocre. Millennial consumers probably...
For Yelp, it’s food for thought. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Feb. 26) that the firm, known for its reviews from users across...
Worldpay reported results for the fourth quarter of 2018 that topped expectations, marked by organic growth in its core payments processing operations....
Among the biggest games in eCommerce is, well, games, and that includes subscription streaming services along with the payments that go along...
When the state of Ohio partnered with cryptocurrency company BitPay last year, it meant the state would become the first in the...
When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on...
Bank and non-bank collaboration gets a boost in South Korea through an interbank payment network and sandbox. Elsewhere, individual FinTech company initiatives shine...
Traditional credit-scoring models have not had it easy in the court of public opinion over the last few years. The complaints vary in...
Trust is inherent in banking, and has been since the beginning, when people decided to store coins and bills in vaults. Entersekt SVP...
Subscription commerce has come a long way since book-of-the-month clubs and those record and cassette retailers that tempted teenagers with seeming impossible...
In life there are few shortcuts — and on occasion when a difficulty is encountered on the map there is no way...
As sellers on the Amazon marketplace await possible fee changes for that platform — and consider if selling via rival marketplace might...
GlassesUSA.com, a web-based prescription eyewear dealer, launched in 2009. But despite its near decade in business, as of about a year ago,...
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) said earlier this month that it had put in place a set of action items...
In India, government efforts to crack down on late payments made to smaller firms include fines and possible imprisonment for officers of...
After months of controversy, the U.K.’s Banking Competition Remedies has awarded the first batches of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s $1 billion...
There’s room for payment technology providers to marry speed and safety as IoT transforms the way consumers receive and make payments. According...
It’s easy to mistake the trappings of success for stability. Beautiful office buildings, favorable earnings reports, an international presence and a growing global team...
Usually when we talk about unintended consequences here at PYMNTS, we are talking about something that has gone terribly wrong, or at...
According to recent data from Moody’s investor services, corporate leverage in the U.S. has reached pre-2008 levels, meaning banks are facing risk...
In India, food delivery done via app is perhaps leading to a shakeout in a build vs. buy debate that near term...
Pretty much anything Amazon does impacts so much else — and that truth, one of the longest-standing in the world of commerce...
Mastercard, in an effort to gain entry into the Chinese market, is looking toward a joint venture that may help the card...
Nothing ruins an evening — or a morning, an afternoon or even an entire weekend day — than food delivery that gets it...
Stock options drum up images of the dot-com era, of IPO riches reaped for getting in on the ground floor of a...
Continuing in the tradition of PYMNTS earnings roundups: Walmart’s eCommerce efforts, including grocery delivery and pickup options, soared in the fourth quarter...
It is hard to oversell the value of a good catchphrase when it comes to capturing consumers. The ability to elicit an...