Mining company Rio Tinto announced Wednesday (Nov. 9) that one of its executives has left the company, and another one was suspended due to an inquiry into emails over millions of dollars in payments made to a consultant to help the company get the rights...
Contactless card payment usage in Europe continues to explode as more and more merchants accept this form of payment, according to a new study by consulting firm RBR. In a report dubbed “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecast,” the firm found that one in five...
Many things are likely to change in a Trump administration, among them the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump, who has stated a desire to roll back at least parts of the Dodd-Frank laws governing the financial industry, which...
To most Americans, the news earlier this week that that Japan’s i-mode service will cease to exist won’t cause much of a stir. Looking at the name of the product alone, we imagine that the average consumer might wonder if Apple is pulling the plug...
Hiveage, the online invoicing and billing Software-as-a-Service company geared toward freelancers and small businesses, announced Wednesday (Nov. 9) the availability of ACH for its customers in the U.S. The service is being offered through eCheck.Net by Authorize.Net. “Over the past few months, our U.S. users...
Point-of-sale financing may not ring bells as a B2B staple, but someone’s got to be the backbone of the transaction, streamlining the process so that customers don’t wait too long. Flexiti Financial leverages technology and financing to help smaller retailers.
Small businesses in the U.K. need more help to achieve their international ambitions, finds a new report by HSBC. The bank released a new paper this month, “Exporting for Growth: The SME Perspective,” to explore how British small businesses are eying international expansion. Researchers found an...
When traveling abroad, shopping often calls. But how can retailers turn foreign customers into loyalists? For the latest edition of the X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™, PYMNTS caught up with Asad Jumabhoy, founder of cross-border loyalty platform UTU, to discuss how merchants can reach and build...
From Chick-fil-A One to Apple Pay, everybody is trying to give somebody a new, branded and mobile way to pay. But are all these “Pay” products really up to the job? Ken Allen, SVP of operations at Socure, joined Karen Webster to discuss the overabundance...
