High-speed rail service Eurostar is adding Google Pay support to its service in an effort to reduce the usage of paper tickets, according to reports. With the Google Pay tickets feature, customers using Google Pay on an Android 5.1 or higher can save a ticket...
After much of Chicago burned to the ground in 1871, rebuilding the city involved various fundraising and restorative strategies. One famous effort took the form of donated books sent from common people (and royalty) in the U.K. to help build a new, free and public...
AlipayHK, a mobile payment system in Hong Kong, has partnered with McDonald’s to offer payment on the McDonald’s app on smartphones, the company said in a release. AlipayHK users can also use a QR code-based system for special rewards. “With the advent of mobile payment...
Push payments next big thing is instant settlement that helps merchants get paid as sales are made. Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards makes the case that instant settlement is poised to become the new normal in commerce. Some players, he told Karen Webster, have an...
All those children’s TV shows and stories lied: Sharing is not easy. Sharing is, in fact, enormously complex, prone to fraud and frustration, at least when it comes to digital payments and commerce. The rise of the global sharing economy — tied to online marketplace operations...
SWIFT announced Thursday (April 4) that its working group of payments industry experts is creating a common end-to-end implementation to increase the move of cross-border transactions to the ISO 20022 standard. In a press release, SWIFT said the community has decided to create the standard...
It’s one of the rising ideals in this digital world of commerce and payments, a consumer expectation that doesn’t seem in danger of fading anytime soon: buy online and pickup — or otherwise fulfill that transaction — inside a brick-and-mortar store. That idea doesn’t just...
Payments company Square has partnered with the Washington Nationals and Levy Restaurants to let fans order concession menu items right from their seats, according to reports. Fans can use the Square-owned Caviar app and the Square POS terminal to order everything from food to beer...
Another baseball season has started, much to the delight of many consumers, including those insufferable and pretentious fans who consider football something that happens between the World Series and spring training. Cue the memories, the emotional music, the waxing nostalgic about past players and all...
