April 04, 2023
How the Last Five Years Will Shape the Next Five...
The old maxim says the more things change, the more they stay the same. The payments industry may have disproved that wisdom, at least in part, as world-shaking events keep...
March 29, 2023
Billions of People and Trillions of Transactions Define the PayFac...
Forging a 21st century commerce ecosystem on a global scale means changing consumer behavior, and merchant mindsets, particularly in markets where digital remains a small fraction of how consumers and...
March 27, 2023
Adidas, PayU and Mastercard Say Emerging Markets Remain Important Stepping...
With the first quarter of 2023 almost a wrap and many developed markets stuck in the latest crisis — collapsing banks — a lot of the smart money is focusing where...
March 23, 2023
Klarpay CEO Said Providers Must Confront Liquidity Management Challenges With...
European real-time payments have seen historic growth in recent years. In fact, some European countries like the U.K., Sweden and Finland have even gone a step further to develop internal...
March 22, 2023
KreditBee Teams With PayU to Offer Cardless Installment Payments
Indian lender KreditBee has teamed with PayU to let consumers pay for purchases in installments. The partnership, announced Wednesday (March 22), lets PayU merchants work with KreditBee’s customers to turn...
March 17, 2023
PXP Financial Taps Mastercard and Payall on Cross-Border Payments
PXP Financial is now collaborating with Mastercard and Payall to facilitate cross-border payments. This collaboration brings together Mastercard’s global technology, Payall’s payments infrastructure and PXP Financial’s acquiring and payment processing services, the companies said in...
March 13, 2023
Startups and VCs Change Banking Practices After Recent Turmoil
Startups and venture capital (VC) firms are changing how they bank after recent industry turmoil. Although tech industry players were relieved by Sunday’s announcement by federal regulators that depositors at...
March 13, 2023
Spring Cleaning for Alternative Banks as Crypto-Friendly Signature Bank Closes
Crypto’s founding premise was to de-bank the world and remove third-party risk. Now, the digital asset industry is finding itself the one unbanked, as financial institutions that once catered to...
March 13, 2023
South Africa Claims Real-Time Payments Progress With PayShap
South Africa’s central bank says the country is closer to “a more accessible national payment system.” That’s due to the Monday (March 13) launch of PayShap, which the South African...
Individuals with mobile phones outnumber those with bank accounts in the most underbanked regions of the world, offering the telecom industry a prime opportunity to fulfill a vital role. In this month’s “Telecommunications Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with i2c, four telecom providers tell PYMNTS how the industry is ideally positioned to provide financial access to unbanked households.