US B2B payments automation was gaining wider adoption last year and early into the new year. The obvious appeal to business owners and CFOs was cost savings, faster payments by clients and for suppliers, potential faster-pay discounts, quicker automated reconciliation, and a greatly reduced burden ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
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 ...
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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 ...
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In a new partnership with Visa, technology platform ChargeAfter becomes the first fintech to offer Visa installment point-of-sale payments in the US which should be welcome news for both struggling merchants and hard-pressed consumers. With the launch of Visa’s installment solutions on the ChargeAfter platform, ...
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New research from McKinsey shows Canadian consumers avoided cash and bank branches in May over the fear of COVID-19 and turned to contactless payments to fill the gap. The survey found that 42% of Canadians decreased their use of cash compared to only 26% in ...
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By Alexandra Marcu, Vice President of Marketing at 2Checkout The business landscape has never been as competitive as it is in the digital era and the SaaS field is one of the fastest-growing today according to Gartner – 27% annual growth rate estimated in 2019 ...
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Not only will Americans be banned from travel to Europe, the big US payment companies may soon face competition by a new credit card system in development by 16 European banks. The new pan-European payments system is called the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and will ...
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With new research showing a shift by consumers to contactless payments, technology provider Fattmerchant introduced a new suite of contactless payment tools for small business owners A recent survey conducted by Fattmerchant shows a shift in consumer payment preferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly ...
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As business and consumers start to raise their heads from months of prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus crisis, the US payments industry is finally seeing growth in the use of contactless and automated payments. Traditionally, the US had lagged behind earlier adopters in SE ...
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By James Booth, VP, Head of Partnerships EMEA at PPRO COVID-19 has shaken the global economy. Social distancing has drastically shifted consumer behavior and introduced a new set of challenges to stores and shoppers alike. For merchants, it has been difficult to manage a dip ...
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