There are approximately 30.2 million small companies open for business in the U.S. today, employing around 58 million American workers, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). That’s roughly half the adult workforce in the U.S. (47 percent), and the majority of those workers are employed...
Bankable, the global provider of “Banking as a Service” solutions, announced Tuesday (April 30) that it inked a partnership with Visa to enable financial firms and banks to access real-time modular banking services. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Digital comes to all things, it seems, where plastic and physical conduits once reigned — spanning music, media and, in leaps and bounds, payments. Visa announces a new platform offering beta APIs to help issuers and issuer developers build and test new payment products, rendered in bits...
Instant payments — and the ability to push funds immediately across the debit rails to consumer bank accounts — has entered something of a renaissance. The demand is there: According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker, 75 percent of consumers expressed a preference for faster payments, and...
If rules were made to be broken, what better rule to break than the rigid two-week payday cycle? Visa and PayActiv have teamed up to offer on-demand access to earned wages, which Cecilia Frew, SVP and head of North America push payments at Visa Direct, says...
On Friday (March 8), the world will recognize International Women’s Day — celebrated globally since 1975, when it was adopted as a holiday by the United Nations. In the 44 years since, much has changed for women all over the world. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Visa shares dropped 2.3 percent on Thursday (Jan. 31) after an announcement by the company of earnings that beat expectations, but also of low growth in payments volume and cross-border transactions, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
LINE Pay Corporation, operator of the popular payment app LINE Pay, announced that it is launching a LINE Pay co-brand credit card with Visa in Japan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Visa, the payments company, is acquiring U.K.-based Earthport, which facilitates international transactions for banks and companies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
