The payments industry loves the promise of new technology whether it’s mobile payments, fingerprints, facial recognition or other biometric payments. But the challenge of moving from test markets to the real world is always present. Visa, Mountain America Credit Union, and Fingerprints AB ran a ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
India’s leading online shopping site Flipkart, now 77% owned by Walmart, launched a cashless credit program that will give shoppers access to an instant credit line of up to Rs 60,000 ($834 USD) to buy products on the e-commerce marketplace. The announcement comes just ahead ...
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Here’s the best global payments news that crossed our desk this week, all curated and quickly accessed for your weekend reading enjoyment via Payments NEXT. Retail sales prediction: Black Friday & holiday sales could jump 15.5% A new report from Internet Retailer suggests US 2018 holiday retail sales could ...
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We’ve got a payments news roundup with news you can use from around the globe. Pulse Network looks at some of the reasons Apple Pay is gaining with credit card issuers. We’ve got a payments processor showdown between Stripe and PayPal as well as a ...
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A new research study of debit card issuers by Pulse Network shows that 12.2% of debit cards were enrolled in Apple Pay as of January 2018, an increase of 6.3% from January 2017. Mobile and contactless payments are slowly growing for other networks such as ...
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We all know the impact of the rapid rise of mobile transactions on e-commerce businesses. According to ThreatMetrix, in the last three years, mobile transactions have grown three times more than desktop transactions. By the middle of this year, mobile transactions, including new accounts, logins and ...
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In this week’s global Payments NEXT newsletter, US startup Zippin is showcasing its next-generation checkout-free technology. Walmart is testing an innovative crowdsourcing delivery program that could take off. IBM has now made its blockchain-based bank payments and clearing technology available. Amazon Pay entered the challenging ...
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Here’s what caught our attention in global payments news this week. IBM has now launched its blockchain payment clearing network for banks. Check out how cashierless stores are impacting retail. Amazon Pay enters the Japanese market in partnership with Nippon Pay and Instagram is building ...
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In Japan, 80% of consumers pay for transactions with cash. That’s why Amazon Japan’s decision to introduce Amazon Pay in partnership with startup Nippon Pay shows they are in the cashless payments market for the long term. With only 20% of Japanese consumers using other ...
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Welcome to the weekly edition of Payments NEXT news. We go in-depth to look at cashier-less checkout trends, cross-border e-commerce success tips, Amazon fake products and Google Pay’s new program to offer loans by mobile app in India. As always, we wrap up with our ...
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