For an emerging market, Latin America is in many ways leading the global digital transformation of payments through endless innovation and new ways of partnering. This was the upshot of a recent conversation between PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and PayU Latam CEO Francisco Leon, who said...
As the era of the combustion engine winds down, its payment logic appears increasingly outdated. In its place, electrification is ushering in alternative models for the way people pay to drive. The most noteworthy change is that paying to recharge vehicles with cash, while not...
With 2023 off to a running start, treasury is calling the shots differently, with a refined focus forged in the crucible of 2022. Julie Lubell, global head of Trends and Advisory at J.P. Morgan Payments, discussed with Karen Webster the new roadmap for investing and...
“There has been so much capital deployed in FinTech building out solutions that don’t actually solve real world problems.” Philip Fayer, CEO and chair of Nuvei, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that the deal-making and private funding rounds in FinTech might have peaked during the pandemic....
Forty-six percent of manufacturers that have previously invested in liquidity forecasting and management applications are still making these investments or plan to continue doing so. This continued CFO investment is a good indicator of the extent to which manufacturers and retailers are counting on finance...
There’s a merchant mind shift underway in retail industry circles. This, as changed consumers and an increased appetite for efficiency among businesses have combined to cause more merchants to demand more help from vendors, suppliers and anyone else who can offer some help, which in...
Global eCommerce sales are predicted to grow by more than half over the next four years, with a projected value of $8.1 trillion by 2026. Scaling upward, however, remains a challenge for most online businesses, with more than 90% of eCommerce merchants earning less than...
The right payment infrastructure can mean the difference between one less click on the way to checkout and therefore one more sale, says Volusion CEO Troy Pike in this month’s “Payments Orchestration Tracker.”
The pandemic brought merchant aggregators — marketplaces that onboard and provide crucial platforms for individual merchants — to the forefront of the payments ecosystem. Demand continues to generate new, more specialized digital marketplaces, but the proliferation of diverse payment systems worldwide means that platforms are...
