Payment Platforms news and trends

Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments

February 26, 2026
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PXP Tackles Cart Abandonment With ‘Checkout Components’
Checkout Conversion // September 15, 2025

Payment platform PXP has introduced a solution aimed at addressing the issue of cart abandonment. Checkout Components, announced Monday (Sept. 15), is designed to give businesses control over how payments are presented, processed and optimized on desktop and mobile platforms, thus keeping customers from abandoning...

Fiserv’s Clover Logs 30% Revenue Growth, Zelle Transactions Surge 44%
Earnings // February 06, 2024

Fiserv’s most recent results show momentum as smaller businesses and financial institutions (FIs) alike invest in upgrading their digital and mobile capabilities and payments acceptance. Earnings supplementals released alongside the earnings announcement showed that the Merchant Acceptance segment recorded 24% organic revenue growth to $2.1...

CFPB Director Calls for Stronger Data Protections
Legal & Regulation // October 06, 2023

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has reportedly expressed concerns about the potential risks posed by payment systems that enable excessive surveillance and financial censorship.  In a Friday (Oct. 6) speech at the Brookings Institution, Chopra emphasized the need for stronger protections against the...

PayPal Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Competitive Practices
Legal & Regulation // October 05, 2023

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against PayPal, alleging that the company engages in anti-competitive practices that result in higher prices for consumers during eCommerce transactions. The lawsuit, filed by Hagens Berman, a global law firm, claims that the anti-steering rules of the eCommerce payment supplier and owner of...

Interviews & Exclusives
Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments

February 26, 2026
Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card networks? It sounds almost impertinent. Stablecoins were supposed to be the insurgents. Peer-to-peer. Borderless. Frictionless. The whole point was to route around the Mastercards of the world. To build a […]

Most Consumers Want One Place to Pay Their Bills, Billers Beg to Differ

July 11, 2023
A deep disconnect exists between holistic bill payment solutions providers and billers on the value a holistic billing platform can offer. Providers tout the benefits of an improved customer experience,...

Consumers, Billers Demand End of Fragmented Bill Payment Experience

May 10, 2023
Consumers — especially young and affluent consumers — want a single, inclusive, convenient place to see and pay their bills. Holistic bill pay platforms could make payments less painful for...

Healthcare Payment Pains Push Patients to Digital Portals

February 17, 2023
PYMNTS’ latest research on the healthcare space shows that 3 in 4 United States consumers made at least one payment for a healthcare product or service in the past 12...

Quick Reads
PXP Tackles Cart Abandonment With ‘Checkout Components’

September 15, 2025
Payment platform PXP has introduced a solution aimed at addressing the issue of cart abandonment. Checkout Components, announced Monday (Sept. 15), is designed to give businesses control over how payments are presented, processed and optimized on desktop and mobile platforms, thus keeping customers from abandoning their purchases at the last stage. “Merchants want more than […]

CFPB Director Calls for Stronger Data Protections

October 06, 2023
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has reportedly expressed concerns about the potential risks posed by payment systems that enable excessive surveillance and financial censorship.  In a Friday...

PayPal Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Competitive Practices

October 05, 2023
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against PayPal, alleging that the company engages in anti-competitive practices that result in higher prices for consumers during eCommerce transactions. The lawsuit, filed by Hagens Berman, a global...

Zelis and Rectangle Health Team to Streamline Medical Payments

July 19, 2023
A pair of health-focused FinTechs say their new tool drastically reduces processing times for medical payments. Zelis and Rectangle Health announced their solution for healthcare and dental practices Wednesday (July 19), saying it...