Payments Trends

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Post-pandemic payments path leading to the new normal

Just what does the “new normal” look like in a post-pandemic payments world? We reached out to Brady Harris, CEO of programmable payments company Dwolla for his insight ...
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IBM-Prairie Payments Joint Venture

Canadian credit unions and IBM plan new payments as a service platform

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 ...
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May 8 Global payments news roundup: QuadPay, Square, Klarna, PPRO, Judo Bank, more…

Welcome to our weekly Friday fintech, payments, and e-commerce news and business intelligence roundup. It may not feel “normal” yet where you live, so we’ll do our best ...
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Rapyd payments research

Rapyd Asia payments research report: One size does not fit all

When it comes to payments across seven major countries in the Asia-Pacific region, new research from Rapyd tells us two key things. First, there is no single payment ...
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May 1 Payments news roundup: Challenger bank closures, coronavirus payments trends, e-commerce insights, more…

Welcome to our weekly global payments news roundup with all the payments, fintech, and e-commerce news you need to know. We look at several challenger bank updates and ...
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local payment preferences critical

What’s the post-pandemic payments world look like?

As consumer buying behaviors change quickly during and post-pandemic, the payments world is also going through significant changes. While contactless payments were very slowly gaining traction, particularly in ...
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Ticketmaster ripoff

Ticketmaster decides ripping off consumers is okay

In a headshaking, tone-deaf move especially during the coronavirus pandemic, the brain trust at Ticketmaster has decided to add to the misery of consumers who bought tickets for ...
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international student payment preferences

Two-thirds of international students prefer familiar tuition payment options

A new report by payments company Flywire says 67% of international students are concerned if they can’t use their tuition payment method of choice at UK universities. While ...
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Coronavirus rocks the world

April 10 Payments NEXT big global news roundup

The weeks are sliding by slowly as we all stay at home and wait out the COVID-19 crisis. Today, on this Good Friday, we’ve got another big roundup ...
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coronavirus impacting payments industry worldwide

April 6 Global payments news roundup

We’re starting this week with a big global payments news roundup since there’s so much going on in the payments, fintech, and e-commerce industry around the world. We ...
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