For almost a year and a half, we’ve heard the phrase “new normal” thrown around a lot to describe the massive shift in behavior created by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a vague set of socially distanced lifestyle changes that the world – with a few...
“It’s good to be the King,” Mel Brooks said in his 1979 comedy classic “The History of The World, Part 1,” offering a concise statement of the simple reality that rank has its privileges, and generally the best privileges flow to the highest person in...
Anyone who remembers the cover art from the film “The Perfect Storm” recalls a vast wave looming over a small fishing boat. That’s the image that Agreement Express’ CEO David O’Brien conjured in a recent conversation with PYMNTS on how payment firms must ride out...
Payments orchestration can feel a bit like a new thing to the market in the last few years, but it actually isn’t. Airlines and large global retailers have been doing some variation of payments orchestration for quite some time, although those efforts were always in-house...
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s exchange with J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on overdraft fees has been viewed 750,000 times in the first 24 hours since the May 26 Senate Banking Committee hearing that spawned it, according to a Newsweek report. That made-for-TV moment came when Warren...
Stripe has launched a series of new product updates that it said will expand the “reach and effectiveness” of its revenue platform, according to an announcement emailed to PYMNTS. The updates will help businesses “make more money with less effort,” the announcement stated. One element...
For consumers’ payments and commerce behaviors, a year of hanging out at home and having to relocate almost everything to online has not been an entirely bad experience. On the bright side, it has created an opportunity for consumers to experience different choices via growing...
Square has unveiled three new developer tools this week, including early access to Snippets API for Square Online. The company announced this tool at its Square Unboxed conference, saying that Snippets, the first API built on top of Square Online, allows developers to craft plugins...
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is looking to create a payments firm that can take on some of the biggest U.S. FinTechs and payments companies, Financial Times (FT) reported on Monday (May 3). “The idea is to build a European payment champion that can take...
