India’s One Nation One Card will be test-piloted with Mumbai bus operator BEST in November, NFCWorld reported on Tuesday (Aug. 13). The national transit card system uses a bank-issued card that will run on India’s RuPay payments network, the news outlet said. Based on the...
“Go West, young man,” or variations on that thought once served to point the way toward potential prosperity for workers and budding entrepreneurs. Now, in this digital era, the push to go international, and to engage in cross-border commerce, is an ideal that applies to...
It used to be all about the Benjamins, all about the cold hard cash – in this case, U.S. $100 bills, as expressed in a Puff Daddy track from 1997. But rap music and hip-hop culture – arguably the greatest global culture force of this...
Visa is moving toward discontinuing its Visa Checkout service sometime next year, according to reports. It appears the company’s service, which was introduced in 2013 and competed with services like PayPal, will be shuttered in favor of a new EMV SRC-based service. In 2017, Google...
A Japanese venture launched in 2018 by Paytm, India’s top payments app, now has 10 million customers in Japan, according to a report on Thursday (Aug. 8). PayPay is also getting support from one million merchant partners and local stores in Japan, Vijay Shekhar Sharma,...
Loyalty is a tricky proposition, especially as plastic cards have given way to mobile payments, and there is little mercy for those businesses that get loyalty wrong. That truth especially applies in the world of credit unions, financial institutions (FIs) that are always fighting to...
Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for the fainthearted. Unless you like the task of finding, paying and keeping track of multiple...
Global payment services firm Western Union is teaming with Canadian financial institution TD to offer a fast, convenient way for TD account-holders to send money around the world. Western Union said in a press release on Thursday (Aug. 1) that customers of one of Canada’s largest...
Faster payments are all the rage, part of numerous discussions and plans when it comes to global payments — the concept serving as an ideal for not only what’s to come but what should come in terms of better transactions that meet the changing demands...
