payments trends

Partnership attacks two biggest barriers to US international e-commerce sales

By Jeff Domansky

October 23, 2019

With global e-commerce likely to reach a record of nearly $3.5 trillion in 2019, why are more US businesses not making bigger headway in growing their international e-commerce ...

Are you a global payments expert? Take the test!

By Jeff Domansky

September 30, 2019

UK payment preferences differ from other countries

Banking E-commerce Payments Research Payments Trends

GoCardless is out with a new report on payments preferences in 10 major markets that comprise 80% of global e-commerce. The report gives us valuable insights into consumer ...

Sept 20: Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

September 20, 2019

Disruptive Technologies E-commerce Payments Trends

Time flies when you’re in the payments industry and we’ve got some global payments news to help you quickly keep up with the latest. We look at Mitto, ...

Pay cash for Amazon via Western Union

By Jeff Domansky

September 18, 2019

Amazon PayCode available at Western Union

E-commerce Payments Trends Retail

Apparently, cash is not on its deathbed after all. At least not yet at Amazon. Amazon is partnering with Western Union to expand its PayCode service so US ...

Credit card of a new business Stripe

By Jeff Domansky

September 10, 2019

Banking E-commerce Fintech

Hard on the heels of launching a new small business loans product – Stripe Capital last week, Stripe is out today with a new corporate credit card aimed ...

US drunk shoppers spent $39.4 billion in 2018

By Jeff Domansky

September 2, 2019

Cybersecurity E-commerce Payments Technology

It’s Labor Day, so we thought we’d keep things a little lighter than usual here on Payments NEXT. This just in. Americans have got the message about the ...

For small payments, will that be cash or debit?

By Jeff Domansky

August 19, 2019

cash and debit preferred for small payments

Banking Payments Research Payments Trends

In China and Europe, contactless cards and mobile payments are commonplace, even with small payments. But in the US, cash and debit for small purchases are still king, ...

Aug 16 Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

August 16, 2019

E-commerce Fintech Payments Trends

As the end of the dog days of summer approaches, we’ve got our weekly global payments news roundup for you. First, we look at the 25th anniversary of ...

Speed of payments drives logistics industry

By Jeff Domansky

August 14, 2019

RoadSynch digital payments platform for logistics

Mobile Payments Payments Technology

If there’s one thing that defines the $1.8 trillion US logistics and transportation industry, it’s speed. How fast can we get the product to the customer? What’s the ...

July 26 Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

July 26, 2019

E-commerce Payments Research Payments Trends

We’ve got our weekly global payments news roundup ready for your reading pleasure. We start with a look at ActiveViam research showing 71% of retailers are concerned about ...