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Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps
News // May 26, 2026

Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet. The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with Google Pay for Android native apps, according to a Monday (May 26) blog post. Developers...

Google Embeds Klarna BNPL Into Gemini AI Conversations
BNPL // May 12, 2026

Google Pay users shopping in Google’s Gemini app or Google Search, including AI Mode, will be able to access Klarna’s flexible payment options. When this integration is completed, Google Pay users in the United States will see a Klarna button at checkout and will be...

Klarna Brings Pay Later Options to UK Google Pay Users
BNPL // February 16, 2026

Klarna says its pay later options are now available on Google Pay in the U.K. With this offering, Google Pay users in the U.K. have the choice of using Klarna’s interest-free payment options at checkout, the Swedish FinTech announced Monday (Feb. 16). The offering lets...

Mobile Wallet Usage Soars, Even as Apple Pay Leaves Spend on the Table
Mobile // February 02, 2026

Apple Pay usage has doubled in physical stores over the past year, yet the mobile wallet still processes only 1 in 10 eligible transactions and faces intensifying competition from rivals that are expanding even faster. The findings come from “Apple Pay @11: Usage Is Up,...

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Mobile Wallet Usage Soars, Even as Apple Pay Leaves Spend on the Table

February 02, 2026
Apple Pay usage has doubled in physical stores over the past year, yet the mobile wallet still processes only 1 in 10 eligible transactions and faces intensifying competition from rivals that are expanding even faster. The findings come from “Apple Pay @11: Usage Is Up, but Competitors Are Gaining Ground,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report examining […]

Truck Stops Go Digital as Visa Moves Fleet Payments to Google Pay

July 30, 2025
At 2 a.m. on a rain‑slicked interstate, a long‑haul 18-wheeler pulls into a dimly lit fuel island. The driver swipes a decades‑old mag‑stripe “fleet card,” keys in the tractor’s mileage, enters a...

Gen Z Online Shoppers 120% Likelier Than Millennials to Use Apple Pay

March 06, 2024
When it comes to digital wallet adoption, the youngest consumers are outpacing older generations by a wide margin, PYMNTS Intelligence research reveals. By the Numbers The report “How Preferred Payment...

eCommerce Checkouts Using Buy Button Are 46% Faster Than Without 

June 09, 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...

Quick Reads
Google Wallet Moves Directly Into Retail Checkout Pages

June 04, 2026
Google expanded the capabilities of Google Pay to include direct checkout, a new experience that brings payment options from a customer’s Google Wallet to a retailer’s checkout page. The company launched the experience Thursday (June 4) for select merchants that use Airwallex. It will soon expand it to merchants that use Adyen, and then to […]

Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps

May 26, 2026
Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet. The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with...

Google Embeds Klarna BNPL Into Gemini AI Conversations

May 12, 2026
Google Pay users shopping in Google’s Gemini app or Google Search, including AI Mode, will be able to access Klarna’s flexible payment options. When this integration is completed, Google Pay...

Klarna Brings Pay Later Options to UK Google Pay Users

February 16, 2026
Klarna says its pay later options are now available on Google Pay in the U.K. With this offering, Google Pay users in the U.K. have the choice of using Klarna’s...