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...
The Travelers Companies, Inc. says its insurance customers can now receive claim payments through the digital platform PayPal. Auto, property and general liability claims can use Travelers’ link to PayPal for fast and easy reimbursement, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (July...
Global payments provider Ingenico Group has launched TravelHub to connect travel companies with end-to-end payment processing across Asia, Latin America and Europe. With TravelHub, travel companies can access more than 150 payment methods with smart transaction routing capabilities intended to improve conversion rates, the company...
On a global stage, one size does not fit all when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO and managing director at Wirecard North America, noted that when it comes to innovation, issuers face challenges in meeting the needs and expectations...
