Retail sales made during China’s annual Singles’ Day shopping event reportedly slowed again this year amid the country’s economic challenges and consumer skepticism about retailers’ promotions. While eCommerce platforms used to see growth in the double digits during Singles’ Day, more recent estimates put those...
Singapore’s FOMO Pay has teamed with Mastercard to debut a tap-on-phone payment solution. FOMO SoftPOS, announced Friday (Nov. 8), lets merchants accept contactless card payments directly on their smartphones with the FOMO Pay app from the Google Play Store. The companies noted in a news...
Argentina’s Ualá has reportedly raised $300 million, valuing the FinTech at $2.75 billion. “We’re going to use this to scale Argentina, where my goal is to be the largest bank in the country, not just by users but by book,” founder and CEO Pierpaolo Barbieri said in an interview with...
Digital bank PicPay is offering access to Brazil’s Pix instant payment system via WhatsApp. The new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered offering, announced Monday (Nov. 11), is made possible by PicPay’s partnerships with WhatsApp owner Meta and Microsoft. “Unlike traditional chatbot assistants, PicPay’s GenAI, developed in-house and powered by Microsoft...
Beginning next year, many American businesses will have to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act. This law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, requires certain companies to provide the government with beneficial ownership information (BOI), or “identifying information about the individuals who directly or indirectly own or control...
The corporate and vehicle payments business has been very good to Corpay. The business payments firm’s most recent quarterly earnings, reported Thursday (Nov. 7), showed a 6% increase in adjusted profit, driven by growth in those segments. “Business fundamentals were quite good with same store sales...
The integration of social media and eCommerce has led to the rise of social commerce, a model that allows consumers to make direct purchases within social platforms. What started as basic product links has expanded into a multi-billion-dollar industry, with brands and consumers embracing the...
Last week, Nacha said its Payments Innovation Alliance formed a new project team seeking to answer the question, “What is pay by bank?” Via the project, financial institutions, providers and FinTechs, will delve into identifying “operational, risk and educational issues” associated with what Nacha called...
PNC Bank increased the number of new branch locations and renovations it plans to complete over the next five years. The bank plans to open 200 new branch locations in 12 cities and renovate 1,400 existing branches during that time, investing $1.5 billion in these...
