Digital Payments

Digital Payments
Taking Digital Payments out to the Ballgame With Next-Gen Concessions
July 29, 2022

“Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack. On my phone. So I don’t have to wait in line.” Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it? Still, that’s the new reality at ballparks and other sporting arenas around the world as the same...

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12% of Consumers Reported Payment Declines in June
July 29, 2022

About 1 in 10 consumers experienced fraud or had their payments declined in the last month, according to “Digital Economy Payments,” a PYMNTS report based on a survey of 2,789 U.S. consumers. Get the report: Digital Economy Payments The research found that 7.7% of consumers...

Digital Payments
Walmart’s Super App, Cashi, Marries Digital Payments and Cash in Mexico
July 26, 2022

Cash is king, as the saying goes. Cash has attributes that people value. It’s tangible — with cash in hand, consumers know exactly how much they have to spend and what they can’t spend. Money is, for many consumers, the ultimate form of budgeting. Ignacio...

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GoCardless to Provide Payment Solutions to Xero Customers in the UK
July 21, 2022

Digital payment solution GoCardless announced Thursday (July 21) that has partnered with Xero, a global small business platform, to provide its Instant Bank Pay feature to Xero’s customers in the U.K. Instant Bank Pay, an open banking feature integrated into the GoCardless global payment platform,...

Digital Payments
Could Super App Users Spell the End of Germany’s Cash-Heavy Retail Economy?
July 20, 2022

It has frequently been observed that German consumers are an anomaly among their northern European neighbors due to their comparably high preference for cash. For example, a 2020 European Central Bank (ECB) report found that physical euros accounted for 51% of the value of transactions...

Digital Payments
PYMNTS Intelligence: How Automation Can Improve Healthcare Supply Procurement and Supplier Relationships
July 20, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the need to ensure that medical supplies can be easily procured. The global market value for medical supplies was $136 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% to reach a value of just over...

Digital Payments
Google Play Prepares for Digital Markets Act by Allowing Alternative Billing Systems
July 19, 2022

Google has commented on the passing of the Digital Markets Act, which will require Google Play and other industry players to adjust their current operating model for users in the European Economic Area (EEA). In a blog post Tuesday (July 19), the company said: “We...

Digital Payments
Google Wallet Launches as Google Pay Sidekick
July 19, 2022

Google has launched Google Wallet, the company’s fourth rebrand of its payment system, bringing back the original name that existed from 2011 to 2015. The system was renamed as Android Pay in 2015, then became Google Pay in 2018 before returning to the Wallet brand,...

Digital Payments
Smoothing Healthcare Payment, Procurement Challenges With Medical Supplies
July 19, 2022

Huntington Health's Steven Mohr tells PYMNTS in the latest edition of the "B2B Payments In Healthcare Tracker®" how faster, more efficient procurement of lifesaving medical supplies is happening at a time of tight supplies and other recently exposed systemic weaknesses that emerged from the pandemic.