Checkout.com has teamed with Mastercard to offer virtual cards to online travel agents. “As part of the Mastercard Wholesale Program, which reduces costs for travel businesses through virtual card technology and an innovative pricing model, customers of Checkout.com will be able to pay their suppliers more easily and benefit from...
Four years ago, the pandemic began to give wings to contactless payments. Now, as shown by earnings results from the likes of Mastercard and Visa, the payment methodology has taken flight. PYMNTS Intelligence data noted earlier this year that more than half of consumers surveyed said they still preferred to...
Mastercard has welcomed six startups to its Start Path program focused on improving payment acceptance. “The ability to accept electronic payments has been critical to shaping the future of commerce and spurring the secular shift to digital — unlocking new use cases and enhancing expectations...
As scammers and fraudsters become more sophisticated, shoppers are demanding more effective prevention tools from their eCommerce merchants. By the Numbers The PYMNTS Intelligence study “Fraud Management, False Declines and Improved Profitability,” created in collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from a survey last summer of...
May 02, 2024
Four years ago, the pandemic began to give wings to contactless payments. Now, as shown by earnings results from the likes of Mastercard and Visa, the payment methodology has taken flight. PYMNTS Intelligence data noted earlier this year that more than half of consumers surveyed said they still preferred to use physical cards in in-store settings. The tap-to-pay, contactless functionality that’s built into those cards has […]
May 01, 2024
Scams, regrettably, are a feature — not a bug — of modern, digital payments and commerce. And in an era where technology has become increasingly sophisticated, so too have the...
April 23, 2024
Management guru Peter Drucker once said that “wherever you see a successful business, somebody made a courageous decision.” That’s the spirit behind the Certainty Project, a study from PYMNTS Intelligence highlighting...
April 18, 2024
Continuing the industry’s migration of business payments and expense management to digital platforms, Mastercard announced today (April 18) that it is bringing its commercial cards to mobile wallets. The move comes in...
May 02, 2024
Checkout.com has teamed with Mastercard to offer virtual cards to online travel agents. “As part of the Mastercard Wholesale Program, which reduces costs for travel businesses through virtual card technology and an innovative pricing model, customers of Checkout.com will be able to pay their suppliers more easily and benefit from higher conversion rates by issuing virtual cards,” the companies said […]
May 02, 2024
Mastercard has welcomed six startups to its Start Path program focused on improving payment acceptance. “The ability to accept electronic payments has been critical to shaping the future of commerce...
April 29, 2024
ECommerce solution provider PrestaShop has partnered with Mastercard to offer Click to Pay in Europe. The Click to Pay functionality will be integrated into the PrestaShop platform for merchants based...
April 25, 2024
Mastercard is introducing a card issuance function for its FinTech Express platform. The payments giant made that announcement Thursday (April 25) as part of a broader rollout of enhancements to FinTech...
