By Jeff Domansky, Jan 7, 2021 California-based fintech startup PrimaHealth Credit launched a ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) payment plan specifically designed for credit-challenged patients seeking elective healthcare treatments. According to the company, most healthcare lending products focus on the prime market, leaving behind 52% ...
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Payments Technology
Payments Technology
By John Minor, Chief Product Officer for PayNearMe Jan 5, 2021 We all know the types of problems that can get in the way of a smooth payment transaction: exceptions, fraud, compliance concerns, human error, insufficient funds, and overloaded customer service teams, to name a ...
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By Ankita Tyagi, Founder & Principal Analyst, FSInnovate Dec 16, 2020 For decades, the payments space was associated with facilitating transactions between customers and their financial service provider, and nothing more. But, solution providers such as Alipay showed that it was possible to merge e-commerce ...
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As the end of the year approaches, after a tumultuous, pandemic-fueled 10 months, publisher Doug Hall and managing editor Jeff Domansky reached out to payments industry leaders for their perspectives and predictions for the industry in 2021. These industry leaders have pivoted and innovated throughout ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 9, 2020 Like many other businesses, the restaurant industry is struggling for its life, and new research shows the fragile, slow recovery through October has now slipped backward in November. Pay-at-the-table technology firm TableSafe’s research data shows restaurant transaction volumes declined ...
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By Rob Lincolne, founder and CEO, Paydock, Dec 8, 2020 When Square launched in 2009, they often spoke of the ‘Hidden cost of accepting cash.’ Articulating reconciliation, banking, and administrative inefficiencies (not to mention theft) contemporary thinking at the time referenced the value of non-cash ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Nov 17, 2020 In a new partnership with on-demand pay technology firm Even, PayPal will offer its US employees access to an early-pay service and other financial wellness tools designed to improve financial stability and enhance employee budgeting, savings, and other financial ...
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As the biggest shopping season of the year approaches in the US and around the world, it’s also a hectic time for payments industry news. We’ve got another payments news roundup with all that you need to stay ahead of the latest payments and fintech ...
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After a year of development and testing, Visa rolled out its new Tap to Pay mobile payment app that will let micro-merchants and sellers worldwide quickly and securely accept contactless payments on any NFC-enabled Android device without the need for any additional hardware. The new ...
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When it comes to instant payments, the international banking network SWIFT has been anything but fast in recent years. That’s about to change with the organization’s announcement of a two-year strategy to implement faster payments. “SWIFT Operations Forum Americas Conference at the Convene Center in ...
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