Discover Bank has announced that customers of its savings and money market accounts can now use the Zelle network for person-to-person (P2P) money transfers, according to a press release on Monday (Oct. 28). Discover customers can enroll in Zelle using the Discover mobile app or...
Sorry, Halloween — you offer so much fun and so much decadence. But these days, at least when it comes to payments and commerce, you are becoming just a stepping stone to the holiday shopping season. And as that all-important season approaches — have you...
Ghana says it plans to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government claims that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020....
The buyer is in Canada. The seller is in Singapore. The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly. In the always-on, 24/7/365 economy, payments that circle the globe should conceivably be as simple as those made in a peer-to-peer...
The sharing economy continues to grow and expand as it takes on a heavier load of digital payment and commerce. In fact, it is now reaching into places that can be considered forms of childhood paradise, underscoring the scope and appeal of this business model....
Mastercard is aligning with clothing retailers in a global effort to digitally pay factory garment workers to ensure they consistently get paid, the company said in a press release on Thursday (Sept. 26). Industry partners include Levi Strauss & Co., Marks & Spencer and VF...
If for nothing else, Uber and Lyft will be remembered for one big thing: making payments all but invisible via a seamless transaction process that was pretty much revolutionary. In a short amount of time, that ideal has become the general gold standard for digital...
Payment processor Checkout.com has been awarded a license as an E-money institution in France, according to a release by the company. The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), which is a regulatory division of the Banque de France, awarded the distinction to Checkout.com,...
To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. Those are among the main lessons from the latest report that helps to detail digital and mobile progress in the world of quick-service restaurants (QSRs). As PYMNTS readers know, the...
