Mastercard has launched a digital payments-focused partnership with Türkiye-based FinTech company Dgpays. The collaboration is aimed at promoting the adoption of digital payment solutions for consumers and businesses in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EEMEA), per a Wednesday (Dec. 18) news release. As part of...
PYMNTS Intelligence data has detailed the ways in which various economies around the globe have “plugged in” to a broad range of digital activities, spanning everything from working to communicating to, of course, shopping. Brazil has been a standout across virtually all metrics, as the...
Digital wallets have become a key tool for German consumers, especially for online shopping and banking. Consider that 71% of consumers in Germany used a digital wallet in some way in the past year. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Digital Wallets Beyond Financial Transactions: Germany Edition,”...
Simplicity in the omnichannel shopping experience is a concept that’s seen and appreciated by consumers. But as anyone familiar with the infrastructure behind the experience will tell you, it’s not so simple. From the point of view of Bob Legters, senior vice president of product...
Payment intelligence provider ValidiFI has teamed with fuel/convenience retail tech company PDI Technologies. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Nov. 20), will see ValidiFI provide real-time bank account validation for the consumer enrollment process for PDI’s payments solutions. This integration also covers GasBuddy, the PDI-owned fuel savings...
When it comes to the economy, some things are not up for discussion. Everyone is spending more on housing, on transportation, food and shelter. And the consumer who wants to borrow money is still looking at much higher interest rates compared to March 2022, when...
FIS is teaming with Oracle to remove paper checks from the utility billing process. The FinTech company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12) that its BillerIQ solution, running on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, will allow Oracle — which manages billions of utility customer bills each year —...
Contactless Google Wallet payments are coming to Brazil’s Pix system. The country’s central bank this week previewed the new offering — Pix by Proximity — on Monday (Nov. 4), with central bank (BC) President Roberto Campos Neto joined by Fábio Coelho, president of Google Brazil....
Trash — often dismissed as a gritty, behind-the-scenes operation — is going digital. It is arriving in good company. Traditionally, waste management involved cash-heavy transactions. Independent truckers and small business owners frequently received cash payments for hauling loads of construction debris, scrap metal, or even...
