October 16, 2019The buyer is in Canada. The seller is in Singapore. The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly.
In the always-on, 24/7/365 economy, payments that ...
October 10, 2019Managing supply chains and B2B payments means firms have to navigate complex order to cash (O2C) cycles. Brandon Spear, president at MSTS, tells Karen Webster that automating processes across procurement ...
October 9, 2019The old adage is familiar: The light at the end of the tunnel could be daylight — or another train headed one’s way.
When it comes to invoicing, micromanagement stands in ...
October 8, 2019Payments people love to talk about rails — whose rails are the fastest, cheapest, most secure, most accepted, most compliant. Consumers, not so much. In fact, as Ingo Money CEO ...
October 4, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Square is rolling out CBD early access program that will allow U.S. vendors to sell CBD items. Also, New York is taking a closer look at ...
October 4, 2019Apple Card is the tech giants shot across the bow at banks. Rachna Ahlawat, co-founder and executive vice president of Ondot Systems, tells Karen Webster banks – especially smaller FIs ...
October 4, 2019We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they ...
October 3, 2019Consumers want control — everybody seems to know that.
But what you probably don’t know is that consumers want the type of financial services control that could potentially reduce their risk ...
October 2, 2019Instant payments are more promise than reality in the US. Citi’s global head of payments and receivables, Manish Kohli, tells Karen Webster that lack of ubiquity is a hindrance, but ...
September 27, 2019Inventory stock outs plague brick and mortar retailers. Knowing just what items are where — and replacing or replenishing them — can be a painstaking task. Martin Hitch, co-founder of Bossa ...
September 26, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act that provides cannabis businesses with banking access. Also, SoftBank Group reportedly intends ...
September 23, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Facebook has acquired Israel-based hybrid chatbot startup Servicefriend to build customer service bots for its planned Calibra digital wallet. Also, Shanghai and Beijing Apple ...
September 20, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Wells Fargo is collaborating with data platform Plaid to let customers manage their finances in one place through an application programming interface (API). Also, ...
September 19, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Amazon PayCode is rolling out in the United States to make it easier for shoppers to pay with cash. Also, Plaid is launching new ...
September 19, 2019Treasury management is becoming a job done in real time, as business is done across borders and time zones. Ron Chakravarti, Treasury Advisory Group head at Citi, tells Karen Webster ...
September 18, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Silicon Valley FinTech startup BlueVine has named Brad Brodigan as chief commercial officer. Also, EBA CLEARING is working to launch a new request to ...
September 17, 2019Today in the payments news roundup, Trulioo has notched $70 million in new funding. Also, Square has announced a tool to aid businesses in filing for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) ...
September 17, 2019Consumers live in a real-time world. Their use of mobile devices fuels the expectation that what happens on the other side of a click or a swipe will be delivered ...
September 11, 2019The password lingers on, despite mounting data breaches and showing just how ineffective they are as a security measure. Philipp Pointner, chief product officer of Jumio, told Karen Webster in ...
September 6, 2019Customers expect more from transactions than just
simply making payments. Janet Monroe, head of global
client success at i2c, tells Karen Webster that FIs need to examine their tech infrastructure and partnerships ...
September 6, 2019There are worse ways to start a business than what happened when John Tabis was getting direct-to-consumer and subscription flower operation The Bouqs off the ground.
As the story goes — the ...
August 27, 2019Retailers and grocers want to streamline the in-store
checkout experience and increase conversions. Diebold Nixdorf’s Carl von Sydow tells Karen Webster transactional data can help firms find the optimal checkout footprint that ...
August 27, 2019Gaining scale as a marketplace is, by-and-large, a good thing.
It’s a sign that one has successfully found a way to reach a stable base audience with its goods or services ...
August 22, 2019While traditional temporary and contract workers are not exactly new in the economy, the modern gig economy enabled by mobile technology is something of an economic force all its own. ...
August 16, 2019For gig workers, a growing subset of the economy where at least one-third of the U.S. workforce has taken on project-based work, getting paid in a timely manner can be ...
August 15, 2019That the average experience in a quick-service restaurant (QSR) has been greatly enhanced by the addition of mobile technology is almost inarguable. The customer journey these days is frankly much ...
August 15, 2019SCA may be facing a longer implementation period, but change is coming, of course. Ekata’s CEO Rob Eleveld tells Karen Webster that verification needs to combine aspects of the ...
August 12, 2019“No person is an island,” so goes the line from an old poem, meant to show how we are all interconnected. That line may lean toward the metaphysical, but the ...
August 9, 2019The good news about the era of marketplaces is that it allows the internet to finally live up to its potential as the store for everything. With few exceptions, no ...
August 9, 2019There are still countless books to be written about whether the digital age — the technology, the processes, the seemingly endless retail and service choices, the tracking of personal data, ...
August 8, 2019Loyalty is a tricky proposition, especially as plastic cards have given way to mobile payments, and there is little mercy for those businesses that get loyalty wrong. That truth especially ...
August 7, 2019At this point in 2019, we’ve all dealt with some flavor of two-factor authentication that uses SMS one-time passcodes. We attempt a sign-in and see a prompt that tells us that ...
August 6, 2019Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for ...
August 5, 2019If there was a handbook for how to become a successful fraudster, the first sentence of the first chapter would go something like this: “Go where the money is.”
Perhaps that’s ...
August 2, 2019Fraudsters are ever bolder when it comes to phishing scams, which are up 76 percent year over year. The best approach to stop the bad guys in their tracks, DataVisor ...
August 1, 2019Call it the $1.6 trillion challenge.
College is a rite of passage for some, a dream for others and a financial challenge for just about everyone who strives for a diploma.
Paying ...
July 29, 2019The common view about Africa – once found in recent PYMNTS coverage – is that the vast, varied and massively populated continent represents the next frontier for eCommerce.
The middle-class and disposable incomes are ...
July 22, 2019They’re slow. They’re cumbersome and expensive. They open the door for fraud. For all their drawbacks, why do paper checks persist in accounts payable?
PYMNTS recently surveyed accounts payable (AP) executives’ ...
July 19, 2019Electricity moves pretty quickly, to put it mildly. Water can travel at some robust speeds, depending on gradient, pumps and other factors. But when it comes to payment options offered ...
The buyer is in Canada. The seller is in Singapore. The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly.
In the always-on, 24/7/365 economy, payments that ...
Managing supply chains and B2B payments means firms have to navigate complex order to cash (O2C) cycles. Brandon Spear, president at MSTS, tells Karen Webster that automating processes across procurement ...
The old adage is familiar: The light at the end of the tunnel could be daylight — or another train headed one’s way.
When it comes to invoicing, micromanagement stands in ...
Payments people love to talk about rails — whose rails are the fastest, cheapest, most secure, most accepted, most compliant. Consumers, not so much. In fact, as Ingo Money CEO ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Square is rolling out CBD early access program that will allow U.S. vendors to sell CBD items. Also, New York is taking a closer look at ...
Apple Card is the tech giants shot across the bow at banks. Rachna Ahlawat, co-founder and executive vice president of Ondot Systems, tells Karen Webster banks – especially smaller FIs ...
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they ...
Consumers want control — everybody seems to know that.
But what you probably don’t know is that consumers want the type of financial services control that could potentially reduce their risk ...
Instant payments are more promise than reality in the US. Citi’s global head of payments and receivables, Manish Kohli, tells Karen Webster that lack of ubiquity is a hindrance, but ...
Inventory stock outs plague brick and mortar retailers. Knowing just what items are where — and replacing or replenishing them — can be a painstaking task. Martin Hitch, co-founder of Bossa ...
Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act that provides cannabis businesses with banking access. Also, SoftBank Group reportedly intends ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Facebook has acquired Israel-based hybrid chatbot startup Servicefriend to build customer service bots for its planned Calibra digital wallet. Also, Shanghai and Beijing Apple ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Wells Fargo is collaborating with data platform Plaid to let customers manage their finances in one place through an application programming interface (API). Also, ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Amazon PayCode is rolling out in the United States to make it easier for shoppers to pay with cash. Also, Plaid is launching new ...
Treasury management is becoming a job done in real time, as business is done across borders and time zones. Ron Chakravarti, Treasury Advisory Group head at Citi, tells Karen Webster ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Silicon Valley FinTech startup BlueVine has named Brad Brodigan as chief commercial officer. Also, EBA CLEARING is working to launch a new request to ...
Today in the payments news roundup, Trulioo has notched $70 million in new funding. Also, Square has announced a tool to aid businesses in filing for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) ...
Consumers live in a real-time world. Their use of mobile devices fuels the expectation that what happens on the other side of a click or a swipe will be delivered ...
The password lingers on, despite mounting data breaches and showing just how ineffective they are as a security measure. Philipp Pointner, chief product officer of Jumio, told Karen Webster in ...
Customers expect more from transactions than just
simply making payments. Janet Monroe, head of global
client success at i2c, tells Karen Webster that FIs need to examine their tech infrastructure and partnerships ...
There are worse ways to start a business than what happened when John Tabis was getting direct-to-consumer and subscription flower operation The Bouqs off the ground.
As the story goes — the ...
Retailers and grocers want to streamline the in-store
checkout experience and increase conversions. Diebold Nixdorf’s Carl von Sydow tells Karen Webster transactional data can help firms find the optimal checkout footprint that ...
Gaining scale as a marketplace is, by-and-large, a good thing.
It’s a sign that one has successfully found a way to reach a stable base audience with its goods or services ...
While traditional temporary and contract workers are not exactly new in the economy, the modern gig economy enabled by mobile technology is something of an economic force all its own. ...
For gig workers, a growing subset of the economy where at least one-third of the U.S. workforce has taken on project-based work, getting paid in a timely manner can be ...
That the average experience in a quick-service restaurant (QSR) has been greatly enhanced by the addition of mobile technology is almost inarguable. The customer journey these days is frankly much ...
SCA may be facing a longer implementation period, but change is coming, of course. Ekata’s CEO Rob Eleveld tells Karen Webster that verification needs to combine aspects of the ...
“No person is an island,” so goes the line from an old poem, meant to show how we are all interconnected. That line may lean toward the metaphysical, but the ...
The good news about the era of marketplaces is that it allows the internet to finally live up to its potential as the store for everything. With few exceptions, no ...
There are still countless books to be written about whether the digital age — the technology, the processes, the seemingly endless retail and service choices, the tracking of personal data, ...
Loyalty is a tricky proposition, especially as plastic cards have given way to mobile payments, and there is little mercy for those businesses that get loyalty wrong. That truth especially ...
At this point in 2019, we’ve all dealt with some flavor of two-factor authentication that uses SMS one-time passcodes. We attempt a sign-in and see a prompt that tells us that ...
Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for ...
If there was a handbook for how to become a successful fraudster, the first sentence of the first chapter would go something like this: “Go where the money is.”
Perhaps that’s ...
Fraudsters are ever bolder when it comes to phishing scams, which are up 76 percent year over year. The best approach to stop the bad guys in their tracks, DataVisor ...
Call it the $1.6 trillion challenge.
College is a rite of passage for some, a dream for others and a financial challenge for just about everyone who strives for a diploma.
Paying ...
The common view about Africa – once found in recent PYMNTS coverage – is that the vast, varied and massively populated continent represents the next frontier for eCommerce.
The middle-class and disposable incomes are ...
They’re slow. They’re cumbersome and expensive. They open the door for fraud. For all their drawbacks, why do paper checks persist in accounts payable?
PYMNTS recently surveyed accounts payable (AP) executives’ ...
Electricity moves pretty quickly, to put it mildly. Water can travel at some robust speeds, depending on gradient, pumps and other factors. But when it comes to payment options offered ...
