By Jeff Domansky The pandemic imposed terrible health and financial hardships on consumers everywhere, with an estimated 7.48% of US mortgage accounts in “hardship status” by May 2020. Just two months earlier, in March 2020, before the full impact of Covid-19, mortgage accounts in trouble ...
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By Jeff Domansky At PaymentsNEXT, we’re usually focused on the payments industry, fintech, technology, payments trends, and new developments. Once in a while, it’s helpful to step back and think about the intersection of payments and technology in our daily lives and what’s on the ...
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By Jeff Domansky Understandably, PayPal’s new payment pricing strategy attracted a lot of attention. After all, the company is one of the biggest in the payment industry, with $21.4 billion in revenue in 2020 and $936 billion (+31.5%) in transactions processed. Its biggest payment processing ...
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By Jeff Domansky Dwolla announced new Drop-In Components in its continued effort to lighten the technical lift of integrating a payment API. The low-code components reduce a payments integration by thousands of lines of code, dramatically shortening API integration for developers with or without technical ...
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By Jeff Domansky The global B2B payments market is projected to reach $63 billion by 2026, while the global accounts payable automation market is expected to reach $3.1 billion by 2024. No surprise that fintechs see big opportunities to meet the demand by businesses for ...
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By Jeff Domansky As excitement builds regarding a return to “normal,” it’s helpful to look around the globe and see which economies are poised to rebound the fastest. During 2020’s year of Covid, global consumers made many new buying decisions and tested new shopping and ...
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By Jeff Domansky, June 9, 2021 Fintech PayNearMe will enable millions of Walmart shoppers to pay their bills with cash by displaying a scannable code on their mobile phones at any of Walmart’s 4,674 US stores and MoneyCenterbehavior locations. In expanding its partnership with digital ...
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By Jeff Domansky, June 8, 2021 The largest stolen password collection of all time, 8.4 billion passwords, was leaked on one of the world’s most popular hacker forums. The anonymous hacker named the password compilation ‘RockYou2021‘ after the notorious 2009 RockYou data breach when threat actors ...
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By Jeff Domansky, June 7, 2021 The big news of the day is that Jeff Bezos plans to go into space with his brother next month. Fitting as we approach the 52nd anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s July 20, 1969 walk on the moon. Meanwhile, back ...
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By Jeff Domansky, June 3, 2021 The world of cybersecurity is not on the radar of the average American. That is, until yesterday when news broke of a Russian ransomware attack infiltrating operations of one of the largest US beef producers, Brazilian-owned JBS. The attack ...
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