Payments Technology

European shoppers in Budapest and Spain are shopping and paying with a wink and a wave with the launch of Hungarian fintech PeasyPay.Imagine. No more carrying your purse, wallet, smartphone, or credit card while shopping and paying for groceries, lunch at your favorite cafe, fresh ...

It’s been a season of uncertainty for US hockey, basketball, baseball, and now for NFL football fans. With NHL hockey playoffs well underway without fans in arenas, the NFL is getting ready to open a new season with widely differing plans to delay or allow ...

Q2 earnings reports are ramping up and it’s clear some companies are having very positive numbers for a couple of big reasons. One is their products and services were a perfect fit to meet the needs of customers during the COVID-19 crisis. The other is ...

By: Tristian Chiappini  Asia-Pacific (APAC) is both a fascinating and complex region when it comes to its e-commerce landscape. With the ubiquitous use of e-wallets and other local payment methods (LPMs), it will come as no surprise the region will account for two-thirds of the ...

Merchants, payment gateways, credit card issuers, and banks and have long battled the problem of orders falsely declined as part of fraud prevention programs often operated in isolation by partners in the payments system. Experts estimate losses to merchants could be as high as 10% ...

A new partnership of CPI Card Group (CPI) and Visa is another step forward in reducing ocean waste by using recycled plastic to create attractive new debit, credit, and other plastic payment cards. CPI’s Second Wave ™ card is recovered from ocean-bound plastic waste, recycled, ...

Accounts payable and payment automation provider MineralTree announced new platform features and multicurrency payment processing capabilities for businesses sourcing products and services internationally. The new features allow users to automate the capture, processing, and approval of international invoices using the same platform and workflow used ...

Point-of-sale (POS) funding technology platform ChargeAfter and Japanese venture capital firm MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP) announced plans for a strategic investment to provide global e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers with the technology and tools to approve more applications for POS financing from multiple lenders in real-time. ...

Global payments platform Paysafe launched the Skrill Money Transfer service which allows customers to transfer money for free to friends and family in Mexico, India, and 16 other Asian and European countries. First launched in October 2018 in Europe, Skrill Money Transfer was designed to ...

Credit unions in three Canadian provinces will be looking blue when it comes to modernizing their payments technology and platforms in a new eight-year, $100 million technology services partnership announced between 75 credit unions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta with IBM. The 75 credit unions ...