E-commerce

digital identity authentication

3 trends driving the digital identity market in 2022

By Rodger Desai, Prove Co-Founder & CEO As we evolve into a more phone-centric and mobile-first world, digital identification is becoming a powerful tool to enable safer and ...
Read more
global payment news roundup

Dec 22: Global payments news roundup

Welcome to our final payments news roundup and post for this year. A new Nilson report says we can look forward to $408.5 billion in losses globally due ...
Read more
payment industry predictions 2022

Payment industry leader predictions for 2022 – Pt 2

Seismic payments shift ahead Doug Hall 2022 is shaping up to be a year of seismic change in the payments business. In Part 1 of our series and ...
Read more
Payment predictions 2022

Payment industry leader predictions for 2022 – Pt 1

The end of fintech as we know it? Doug Hall As we reached out to payment industry leaders for a look back at the year and predictions about ...
Read more
Thanksgiving 2021 sales

Black Friday payment perspectives: Sales down, supply chain challenges up

By Jeff Domansky With Black Friday sales over and the holiday shopping season well underway, let’s take a look at how merchants and the payments industry fared. First, ...
Read more
prepaid credit cards

Why prepaid cards—not checks—are the future of rewards and disbursements

Offering better flexibility and efficiencies than checks and other outdated options, prepaid cards can save businesses money, reach more people and provide unparalleled versatility By Theresa McEndree, Head ...
Read more

Global CNP fraud hits 13% with costs to merchants rising fast

By Jeff Domansky A 15-month research study by global payments provider Vesta shows that from 10% to as many as 13% of card-not-present (CNP), online transactions may be ...
Read more
Aug 18 global payments news

August 18: PaymentsNEXT Global payment news roundup

Lots of global payment news rolling out as PayPal cancels international BNPL fees, Paysafe spends $441 million to acquire SafetyPay, record half-year VC fintech investment of $98 billion, ...
Read more
BNPL market heats up

BNPL heats up with Visa, Apple, PayPal, Discover initiatives

By Jeff Domansky If there was ever any doubt that buy now, pay later was mainstream worldwide, we can put that notion to bed once and for all. ...
Read more
PayPal merchant fee increase

What’s behind PayPal’s new US payment pricing strategy?

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 ...
Read more