November 29, 2022
Patience and Cash-Like Payment Options Lead Peak Shopping Season
Cash equivalents came on strong in the closely watched Cyber Five weekend that ended Monday (Nov. 28). Faced with staggering inflation that pushed paycheck-to-paycheck households to the breaking point, consumers...
November 11, 2022
AliPay+ Transactions up 40% During Singles Day Shopping Event
During the 10 days leading up to China’s Singles Day shopping event, there was a 40% increase in the number of online transactions via the Alipay+ payment platform compared to...
October 17, 2022
Lendica, Altametrics Debut B2B BNPL Options For Restaurants
Embedded finance company Lendica has debuted an instant-approval payments plan to offer B2B BNPL options with Altametrics, which provides software for restaurants, a press release said. Altametrics provides enterprise labor...
September 26, 2022
Alipay+ Enables 4 Asian Digital Wallets in South Korea
Digital payments platform Alipay+ has partnered with Asian mobile payment providers to enable the use of four digital wallets in South Korea. With these integrations with Alipay+, which is developed...
September 16, 2022
Why Embedded Finance Has the Potential to Reshape B2B Payments
It’s hard to pin down just how much a digital transformation is worth — what the quantifiable opportunity really is as new business models evolve. That’s especially true as payments,...
September 04, 2022
How Real-Time Payments Can Unleash Economic Growth in the GCC
National-level real-time interbank payment networks are increasingly recognized as one of the pillars of the modern economy, but the need to coordinate between banks, governments and industry means that rolling...
August 26, 2022
Can Cards Retain Dominance in the UK Payment Landscape?
Earlier this week, PYMNTS ran the headline that card is king in the landscape of U.K. payments, using data from a recent report by trade group UK Finance. Read on:...
August 10, 2022
Dana Raises $250M to Expand Digital Wallet Use
Indonesian digital wallet company Dana is looking to expand after raising $250 million from local firm Sinar Mas and Alibaba’s Lazada Group. Dana CEO Vince Iswara said the company wants...
August 04, 2022
APIs Bring Much-Needed Payments and Payouts Relief to Africa’s Insurance...
Money moves from a consumer to a business and often there’s a use case in which that needs to move back out whether as refunds, withdrawals and disbursements, said Kiaan...