This weekend’s reading in payments news, trends, research and innovations from around the globe is for the fast and the furious. Watch for Google’s first-ever retail store in ...
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Mobile Payments
When it comes to payments apps, there’s a new sheriff in town. Square’s Cash App now has a total of 33.5 million downloads compared with PayPal Venmo’s 32.9 ...
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Online shopping in the Asia-Pacific region will reach $1.6 trillion in 2018 and $2.3 trillion by 2022 according to a new report from GlobalData. Across the entire Asia-Pacific ...
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It’s very surprising the check clearing system in the UK has not kept pace with new technologies in most other markets around the world. By the end of ...
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Instead of taking days or weeks to pay out non-glass insurance claims, a new service from Safelite Solutions and Ingo Money could pay accident claimants within hours. Safelite ...
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It’s been a busy week in global payments news and we’ve got a roundup of the latest payments trends, payments research, and innovations for your weekend reading pleasure. ...
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A new report from Juniper Research says in-store contactless payments will reach $2 trillion by 2020, representing one-third of the total point of sale transactions. Driven by payment ...
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Mobile sales are increasing along with the adoption of mobile apps by retailers, but mobile fraud is a growing problem as well according to a new research report ...
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This week’s payments industry news features an in-depth look at PayPal’s acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle, research on the impact of real-time payments on merchants and our ...
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Our Friday global payments news roundup includes a useful collection of strategic payments news you can use about iZettle, PayPal, Barclaycard, ACI Worldwide/Ovum, Amazon, Square, Walmart, FNB, Apple ...
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