This Week In Payments

This Week in Payments: Robots Replace Waiters, BNPL Scales up and Facebook Rebrands

This Week in Payments: Robots Replace Waiters, BNPL Scales up and Facebook Rebrands
This Week in Payments: Robots Replace Waiters, BNPL Scales up and Facebook Rebrands
October 29, 2021  |  Innovation

Automation and digital tools are becoming mainstream and making their way into more areas of people’s daily lives. For example, this week there was news...

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This Week in Payments: Friction-Free Grocers, Disbursement Choice, and Longer BNPL Terms
This Week in Payments: Friction-Free Grocers, Disbursement Choice, and Longer BNPL Terms
October 15, 2021  |  News

Nary a day goes by without reports of some new development aimed at removing friction from the consumer shopping journey. This week, for example, grocery...

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This Week In Payments: Fresh Revenue Streams, BNPL Fraud Watch and Solutions for Real Problems
This Week In Payments: Fresh Revenue Streams, BNPL Fraud Watch and Solutions for Real Problems
October 08, 2021  |  Innovation

One emerging retail and revenue model trend that appeared in a number of stories PYMNTS covered this week involved big companies turning to non-core businesses...

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The Week In Payments: NFTs Are The Offspring Of Napster, And Point-of-Sale BNPL Is Set To Scale
The Week In Payments: NFTs Are The Offspring Of Napster, And Point-of-Sale BNPL Is Set...
August 27, 2021  |  News

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were splashed all over the headlines again this week, as Visa emerged as the unlikely buyer of the awkwardly titled pixel art...

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The Week In Payments: Amazon Eyes Physical Retail, FinTech Valuations Soar, BNPL Digs In Deep
The Week In Payments: Amazon Eyes Physical Retail, FinTech Valuations Soar, BNPL Digs In Deep
August 20, 2021  |  Innovation

The week began with market watchers going nuts over a single unsourced report suggesting Amazon was looking to launch dozens of brick-and-mortar department stores across...

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The Week In Payments: Robinhood Debuts, Walmart To Sell Tech And Super Apps Have An Ecosystem
The Week In Payments: Robinhood Debuts, Walmart To Sell Tech And Super Apps Have An...
July 30, 2021  |  Innovation

As consumers nationwide struggle to stay cool, payments and commerce were on fire again this week as earnings results flowed in while an uncertain world...

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The Week In Payments: Challenger Banks For Business, The Shifting BNPL Race And Crypto’s Killer Use Case
The Week In Payments: Challenger Banks For Business, The Shifting BNPL Race And Crypto’s Killer...
July 23, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Say what you will about the world of payments and commerce, it’s never boring as every week brings a new slew of issues to the...

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The Week In Payments: Bouncing Bitcoin, Content Pick-Ups And Digital-First Staying Power 
The Week In Payments: Bouncing Bitcoin, Content Pick-Ups And Digital-First Staying Power 
May 21, 2021  |  Payment Methods

It has been another exciting week in payments, particularly for those following the bouncing crypto ball this week, as the price of the world’s best...

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