April 29, 2014
Former SWIFT CEO Joins Payoneer Board
Former CEO of SWIFT, Lázaro Campos, has joined Payoneer, an online payments company that focuses on the way technology companies and SMEs send and receive cross-border payments. “We are thrilled to...
April 28, 2014
Where’s The Money Going in B2B Payments?
One of the things that got us thinking that B2B innovation was the “next big thing” in payments, is the amount of investment and energy being funneled into solving the...
April 25, 2014
Taking The Mystery Out of Cross Border B2B Payments
It’s not all that easy to make payments to another business across borders, especially for SMBs. The process tends to be opaque and costly. The Currency Cloud is a small...
April 24, 2014
Visa: Q2 Revenues Rise 7% As Profit Jumps 26%
Visa missed analysts' projections for fiscal second quarter revenues, but earned a 26 percent increase in profits as spending on credit and debit cards remained strong.
April 24, 2014
Worldpay Launches e-Commerce Module With Hybris
Worldpay, a global payment processing provider announced the launch of an e-commerce integration module with hybris, a SAP company to give customers access to Worldpay’s end-to-end services including payment processing,...
April 16, 2014
TransferWise Has Moved £1 Billion Cross-Borders
The Estonian-founded and London-based company TransferWise announced on April 15, 2014 that they have transferred £1 billion ($1.67 billion) in cross-border payments.that they have hit the milestone of £1 billion mark in...
March 20, 2014
IP 2014 Think-A-Thon Awards: Insiders’ Solutions To Industry’s Difficult Problems
Brilliant minds came together over the past few weeks to address three complicated industry problems, and on March 20 we learned which were winners of this year’s Innovative Payments Think-A-Thon.
March 20, 2014
Alpha Payments Cloud Teams With ReD Fraud Prevention
Fraud-prevention company ReD is partnering with payments solution provider Alpha Payments Cloud to secure cross-border payments for businesses, according to a report in Finextra.
March 18, 2014
“It’s Woodstock for Payments Geeks”
It’s rare that the top innovators in the world meet in one location, but that’s just what’s happening today in Boston, as the Innovation Project 2014 kicks off at Harvard...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.