Payments Methods news and trends

Why B2B Checks Still Move $15 Trillion a Year

October 19, 2026
How SoCalGas Eliminates 50,000 Checks With Digital Payouts
Disbursements // August 24, 2026

Finance teams generally know what paper checks cost. They can calculate printing and postage expenses. They can also estimate reconciliation costs and fraud losses. But according to Theresa McEndree, chief growth officer at Choice Digital, one of the highest costs of legacy disbursement programs rarely...

Stripe Offers Adaptive Pricing to APAC/LatAm Merchants
Payments Innovation // August 07, 2024

Stripe says it wants to help merchants show their buyers prices in local currencies. To that end, the payments company announced Wednesday (Aug. 7) that it is introducing adaptive pricing for businesses in Asia Pacific and Latin America, letting businesses automatically show pricing in local...

The Great Connected Consumer Paradox
Connected Economy // October 03, 2023

It has been reported that by 2010, cable television in the U.S. had sort of hit its stride. Analysts report that 90% of homes with a television had a monthly cable subscription that year, reaching some 105 million homes — most of the population. Hundreds...

Report: African Startup Union54 Plans September Launch of Super App
Mobile Payments // June 30, 2023

African startup Union54 is reportedly developing a super app that may launch in September. The new ChitChat app aims to provide secure messaging, dollar-based virtual cards, and services around payments, gaming, dating and food delivery, Bloomberg reported Friday (June 30), citing an interview with Union54...

Interviews & Exclusives
Why B2B Checks Still Move $15 Trillion a Year

October 19, 2026
The check was supposed to be dead by now. Instead, it has become a $15 trillion reminder that moving money and settling a business obligation are not always the same thing. According to research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland published in September, ACH accounted for 41% of business-to-business payments by number in 2024, […]

How SoCalGas Eliminates 50,000 Checks With Digital Payouts

August 24, 2026
Finance teams generally know what paper checks cost. They can calculate printing and postage expenses. They can also estimate reconciliation costs and fraud losses. But according to Theresa McEndree, chief...

PSPs Must Act Like FinTechs to Keep Merchants on Board in 2022

February 07, 2022
In 2022, customers don’t think in terms of siloed channels. They think in terms of shopping — and they want to move fluidly between the digital and physical realms. As...

As Crypto Grows, BitPay COO Sees a Moment When FIs Must Lead or Fall Behind

January 17, 2022
After a couple of years in which corporate crypto strategies were driven more by hype and fear of missing out than focused strategies designed to take advantage of the opportunities...

Quick Reads
Stripe Offers Adaptive Pricing to APAC/LatAm Merchants

August 07, 2024
Stripe says it wants to help merchants show their buyers prices in local currencies. To that end, the payments company announced Wednesday (Aug. 7) that it is introducing adaptive pricing for businesses in Asia Pacific and Latin America, letting businesses automatically show pricing in local currencies for buyers in more than 150 countries. “Online shoppers […]

Report: African Startup Union54 Plans September Launch of Super App

June 30, 2023
African startup Union54 is reportedly developing a super app that may launch in September. The new ChitChat app aims to provide secure messaging, dollar-based virtual cards, and services around payments,...

OpenSea Teams with MoonPay for NFT Credit Card Payments

April 01, 2022
NFT marketplace OpenSea is teaming up with MoonPay to enable direct credit card payments for the purchase of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), opening the doors to investors that don’t own cryptocurrency,...

Denmark’s Nets Merging With Italy’s Payments Giant Nexi

November 02, 2020
European payments rivals Nets of Denmark and Nexi of Italy have negotiated an “all-share” merger deal that would establish a large payments platform for the pan-European market, the companies said...