Ideas like “giving smaller organizations choice” are gaining new meaning in the epic first half of 2020. What seems like a lifetime ago, back in mid-January, it was still all about adding digital payments at one’s own pace, with many prioritizing brand flash and ready...
“No one should be satisfied with the status quo.” That’s how Stripe Co-founder and President John Collison characterizes the state of digital commerce today. The global coronavirus pandemic, he told Karen Webster in an interview, has been the catalyst for a massive shift toward digital everything,...
Stripe, the San Francisco digital payment platform popular with Shopify, Instacart and other major online retailers, announced major updates to its software on Thursday (April 23) that will connect users directly with Mastercard, Visa and the world’s other top credit card networks. The company said...
Speak with people responsible for any type of payments flow today, then find the one who isn’t keen to embrace the world’s newest and best financial tech. Just kidding. No such person exists. “I haven’t spoken to a client in 10 years, even when I...
The stimulus checks — some of them, anyway — are coming, via direct deposit, to tens of millions of Americans’ bank accounts over the next several weeks. But the trillions of dollars intended to help shield individuals, families and businesses from the economic ravages of...
Hundreds of billions of dollars annually are spent collectively by companies whose idea of “electronic invoice” still involves outmoded fax machines spitting out paper invoices. That was before a mutated respiratory virus turned the world upside-down in mere weeks. As touching items, surfaces — and...
Checks are among the most surprisingly durable payments products — at least when it comes to the world of B2B transactions. In terms of consumer payments, the check has long since been ditched by all but the diehards. As of the 1990s, paying with paper...
Finablr, a global platform for payments and foreign exchange solutions, has announced that its Saudi-Arabia based network brand, BayanPay, has been awarded a license to provide payment services by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA). BayanPay will offer digital wallets, eCommerce and SMB payments gateway...
Almost two years after its experimental run, the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has received regulatory approval for its WhatsApp Pay platform in India. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) provided the firm with permission to put WhatsApp Pay into operation in a phased manner, The Business Standard reported. The NPCI’s...
