payments trends

Could Trump-China tariffs take down payments industry profits?

By Jeff Domansky

May 16, 2019

Now that US tariff increases of 25% or more on $300 billion of Chinese products are looming large, what’s the impact on consumers and is there potential for ...

Mastercard swipes more business invoice expertise

By Jeff Domansky

May 7, 2019

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What’s one of the biggest friction points for small business today? If you answered getting invoices paid quickly and easily, you’d also have the answer to why MasterCard ...

April 26 Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

April 26, 2019

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Welcome to the weekly global payments news roundup from Payments NEXT. Fintech company Resolve launched its B2B payments platform. A New York student sued Apple for $1 billion ...

Connected car and other IoT payments gaining speed

By Jeff Domansky

April 18, 2019

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A new Transaction Network Services (TNS) report shows connected car and other internet of things (IoT) payments are getting traction with consumers. The survey of more than 3100 ...

MasterCard enters POS loan space with Vyze acquisition

By Jeff Domansky

April 17, 2019

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Mergers and acquisitions in the payments industry are growing as indicated by MasterCard’s purchase of fintech point-of-sale financing platform Vyze. According to Accenture, point-of-sale (POS) loans are a ...

Belgian e-commerce is booming

By Jeff Domansky

April 16, 2019

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Belgium has just 11.4 million residents and is 11,849 sq miles in size, a little larger than Massachusetts. Despite its small size, it is the world’s 27th largest ...

Forget QR codes, pay with a smile

By Jeff Domansky

March 27, 2019

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In China, more than 580 million people made a payment with their mobile phone last year and 68% used a mobile wallet for off-line payments. In many cases, ...

Mar 22 Global payments news roundup: Branch, Verifi, ZestFinance, more

By Jeff Domansky

March 22, 2019

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Welcome to Payments NEXT’s weekly global payments news roundup. The week started with a bang with the planned $43 billion FIS/Worldpay merger. We covered several new product launches ...

Mar 8 Global payments news roundup

By Jeff Domansky

March 8, 2019

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What a busy week in the payments world despite the distractions in DC! Here’s your weekly global payments news roundup. Philly became the first US city to ban ...

Ingredients for cross-border e-commerce success

By Jeff Domansky

March 7, 2019

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Are you already selling globally or unsure where to start or how to improve your cross-border sales? We’ve got some insight and tips from Shopify Plus that should ...