It’s hard to think of any business that has more unhappy customers and unpaid bills than healthcare. It’s a problem that literally impacts some people’s health, as many avoid going to the doctor as a result. The problem also crushes the retention and profitability of the...
Paytm users will face new 2 percent fees for using the credit card attached to their eWallets, a report from Business Today says. Before now, users had to pay the 2 percent fee only if they loaded over Rs 10,000 on their eWallets from a...
AppotaPay announced that it has received an intermediary payments license from the State Bank of Vietnam, which gives it the ability to offer electronic payment gateways as well as e-wallet and collection services, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 14) Tech in Asia report. AppotaPay, a...
International payments provider ECOMMPAY is integrating with Telegram for in-app purchases, ECOMMPAY said in a statement on Monday (Oct. 12). Founded by Nikolai Durov, Pavel Durov and Axel Neff, Telegram’s global active users top 400 million, and it is the most downloaded social media app...
Payments tech firm Shift4 Payments is rolling out a new QR code solution aimed at making the process of ordering and paying for a meal at a restaurant a completely contactless experience. Shift4 on Monday (Oct. 12) launched a customer QR code aimed at the...
For most consumers, change is a funny thing. It can be almost impossible to get a consumer to let go of an ingrained habit under normal circumstances. But pushed by the pressure of an unusual circumstance to do something a different way, it’s amazing how...
Consumers seeking out low- to no-touch payments options amid public health concerns have combined with an uptick in charitable donations and tips to boost the comfort with peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platforms, Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard, told PYMNTS. Hernandez added...
Even the highest-flying of firms riding the waves of mobile devices and digital payments may have their speed bumps. And to paraphrase an old saying: The devil is in the user metrics. News came this week that the largest mobile operator in India, Reliance Jio,...
Consumers love the opportunity to get paid instantly when they can. After all, who doesn’t want to get their money faster? But with innovation comes risk — and anything that consumers use will always attract fraudsters looking to steal a cut of the action....
