The year 2016 is but a memory, fleeting, and for some, dimly lit, as the payments world experienced change and upheaval. As digital payments gained ground, banks and FinTechs collaborated and online lenders rode the rocky shoals of investor sentiment … it may have seemed like...
Residuals can keep actors and directors rolling in dough or at least lots and lots of very small checks. It’s an inefficient system and one that Exactuals seeks to streamline, through payment processing that saves guilds time and money — and 15 million sheets of...
The subscription or recurring payment model provides some visibility for firms, but closing the books at month end and the back end is no easy matter. Dan Burkhart, CEO of Recurly, delved into his firm’s link-up with QuickBooks Online and the issues that mark recurring...
We like our movies and our music the way we like our mail — digitally and when we want to look at it. In the most recent survey from PayPal on digital delivery in the entertainment space, the smartphone reigns supreme, as Melissa O’Malley, director...
In order to know if something will help, it’s important to know exactly what you’re dealing with — it’s common sense. But many corporates are overlooking the role ISO 20022 can play in reducing costs and improving controls, because the role of ISO 20022 is...
No longer is power solely in the hands of banks and financial institutions. As both consumers and businesses get smarter, payments innovation is anyone’s game. In the latest installment of the Commanders In Chief series, Sukanta Ganguly, CTO of Entryless, shared how the democratization of...
J.D. Vance made “Hillbilly” and “Elegy” a part of our mainstream vocabulary last summer with the publication of his best-selling book, The Hillbilly Elegy. And the working class people he wrote about made their impact known when they drove the outcome of the 2016 U.S....
PayPal had a very busy 2016. Earnings, revenue and active customer accounts all saw double digit growth; total payments volume was up 25 percent. Data from comScore indicates that PayPal’s OneTouch mobile (and web) payments offering gives merchants a better than average conversion rate — 87.5...
As a general rule, merchants aren’t really excited about payments. Getting paid, on the other hand, they are very excited about — but what happens once the swipe or the dip or the click happens, happens inside of a black box that they don’t spent...
