Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the...
Visa and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are hosting a small business (SMB) hackathon later this month to promote the development of...
To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines...
In financial services today, security and innovation can work with each other, and against each other. FinServ cybersecurity is, of course, a...
Small businesses (SMBs) in Canada want more payment options, both in how they accept payments from consumers and how they pay their...
SWIFT has offered another update on its blockchain proof of concept (PoC), reiterating its potential to enrich transaction data, support real-time liquidity...
Every business walks the same tightrope when it comes to processing payments: Convenience versus security. It doesn’t matter if the business is...
You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month...
Some days will always be remembered — Oct. 29, 1929, for example (a.k.a. the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Others are symbolic...
When it comes to bank innovation, size doesn't matter: any financial institution, large or small, can be a top performer with the...
With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send...
PYMNTS.com got 39 of the payments industry’s top CEOs and executives to sound off on what’s next for the year and beyond....
In a world where we’re bombarded daily — even hourly — by data points on everything from stock prices and market cap to...
B2B payments are an instrumental component of global trade and of setting the stage for currencies to operate as global instruments of...
Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with...
Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because...
It was only (relatively) recently that B2B payments finally secured significant attention and investment from innovators. A notoriously clumsy, friction-filled industry, B2B...
About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Don’t feel...
The grocery realm has attracted many big headlines over the last few years — a phenomenon that went into overdrive six months ago...
Member of the tribe? Or maybe part of the squad? If both terms sound out of place in banking or payments and...
While everyone is looking ahead to 2018, it’s worth a look back at some of the major payments milestones of 2017. For...
Beyond bitcoin, payments saw its share of innovation in developing markets, powered in part by financial hubs. In an interview with PYMNTS,...
A wise man named Ferris once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a...
Financial institutions know they have to innovate against a hyper competitive and changing landscape. Firms large and small are eyeing opportunities to keep...
When IT Becomes a Drag on Innovation FIs want to innovate – 97 percent of banks and credit unions surveyed told PYMNTS...
In payments, innovation doesn’t always have to materialize in disruptive waves, but can come, rather, through incremental evolution. In an interview with...
Open APIs are finally making their mark in the financial services space, shifting the approach to everything from product development to security....
What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...
KeyBank is working with accounts receivable company Billtrust to launch a new AR platform for its corporate clients. In a deal signifying...
Geoswift, Western Union Business Solutions and UnionPay International have announced the latest joint tuition payment promotion available to Chinese students studying in...
A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with...
U.S. Bank is offering a new service to corporate card managers in need over overseeing company cards around the world. Reports Monday...
In the last 10 to 20 years, technology has transformed the payments industry. Consumers are no longer reaching for their physical wallets...
Lyft said Tuesday that it is debuting a new feature, receipt forwarding for business travelers and travel managers. The ride hailing company...
Summer’s here, and the commute is likely sticky and dreary and just as long, or longer as it ever was. We waste...
Valitor, a Fintech payment service company announced Wednesday (July 5) the acquisition of Chip & PIN Solutions, a U.K. card-based payment provider....
Vantiv in, JPMorgan out. In a swift denouement to merger speculation that Worldpay, the biggest payment processing firm in the United Kingdom,...
Sometimes, the largest banks can be slowest to innovate, but in today’s FinTech ecosystem, FIs can’t afford to stand still. Matthew Williamson,...
In terms of innovation and profits potential, B2B payments are surpassing those in B2C according to a new report. The report was...
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced the launch of Alipay in South Africa, via...
While the world of payments has mostly gone online – rent remains stubbornly analog in the age of digital. According to a...
Tally, an app that helps pay and organize credit cards, has officially launched and is now available to half of all U.S....
Monese, a fintech startup based in London that has a mobile banking app, added a new feature to its offering that is aimed...
SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative, or SWIFT gpi, gained a new member as INTL FCStone announced its Global Payments Division will join the...
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But...
We’ve all heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” — a metaphor for not wasting time perfecting a perfectly good idea that’s stood...
The world of payments is no doubt in the midst of a major transformation. Vivek Agrawal, executive vice president of technology solutions...
In the complex payments space, it’s often innovate-or-die, especially when it comes to cross-border payments methods and payments technologies. Bob Sneed, VP...
Push payments are on the rise. The check may be at the end. Maybe. With a little assist, perhaps from the first...
Last year, payments technology company Ixaris announced it would spin off some of its operations to form a separate unit dedicated to...