December 27, 2021
Indian AI Seafood Market Startup Captain Fresh Raises $40M 

Indian artificial intelligence-powered seafood marketplace startup Captain Fresh recently closed a $40 million Series B fundraising round that it will use to “build tech interventions and deeper tech integrations across...

December 27, 2021
Online Sales Drive Holiday Spend — and Returns

What did holiday shopping look like this year? Well, we recently reported on how Mastercard — a company that just acquired Dynamic Yield from McDonald’s to personalize and contextualize offers...

December 26, 2021
Mastercard: Online Sales Grew 11% , US Retail Up 8.5%...

A new Mastercard report released Sunday (Dec. 26) says holiday retail sales were up 8.5% this year for the time between Nov. 1 through Dec. 24. In addition, online sales...

December 26, 2021
Airtel Payments Bank Crests 1B in Transaction Volume

Airtel Payments Bank now has over one billion transactions on its platform during September quarter 2021-2022, sources say. This represents around 61% of its year-over-year growth in transaction volume. This,...

December 26, 2021
Some of Revolut’s Online Payments Impacted by a Service Outage...

Customers of Revolut were inconvenienced by a partial outage of services, leaving them unable to complete online payments for a while on Sunday, Dec. 26, the Irish Times writes. There...

December 25, 2021
Warm Wishes and Good Health During This Season of Joy

The finest minds in the history of literature, art and music have tried to capture the spirit of the winter holidays. Across the centuries, they’ve done a marvelous job. Whether...

December 23, 2021
5 Things PYMNTS’ “Ten Minutes With…” Series Taught Us About...

While dozens of industry executives took part this fall in PYMNTS “Ten Minutes With…” interviews, five key themes emerged from our expert panelists concerning the future of digitized business —...

December 23, 2021
Banks Seek AI Platforms-as-a-Service Amid Ever-Increasing Risk

Sudhir Jha, senior vice president and head of Mastercard’s Brighterion unit, told Karen Webster in the most recent On the Agenda discussion that artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen credit and...

December 22, 2021
Deep Dive: How FIs Can Tap APIs to Meet SMBs’...

Nearly all of the businesses operating in the U.S. are small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and they employ more than 47% of Americans, according to 2019 data from the Small Business...