June 14, 2012
What’s Next In the SEPA Saga?
The years of procrastination (by some) are over, and payment services providers — as well as consumers — will have to get ready to be compliant with SEPA in the not so...
May 25, 2012
Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to...
Thank you for joining us for the Earthport webinar event! If you missed out on the live event, Dodd Frank’s Remittance Regs: Addressing 1073 with Minimal Disruption to Your Business is...
May 22, 2012
Earthport Expands into Japan via GWT Corp. Partnership
Earthport entered into a new partnership with Tokyo-based GWT Corp. this week, boosting the company’s ability to provide international payment processing services. “GWT has excellent relationships in the Japanese financial...
May 09, 2012
Western Union’s Digital Wallet for Business Cures International Headaches
Paying vendors is an easy task for businesses that work exclusively with dollars. But even adding one currency to the equation can make an absolutely essential business process painful. Western...
May 03, 2012
Australian Mobile Firm Enables Remittances To Nepal Over SMS
MHITs, a mobile payment firm based in Australia, has enabled remittance payments over SMS, and says it hopes to establish a “remittance corridor” between Australia and Nepal, Mobile Payments Today...
April 28, 2012
PayPass Pushes Cardholder Spending Up 30%, MC Says
Are contactless payments really all that much easier than a swipe? It may surprise you, but new research from MasterCard Advisors actually suggests that the answer is yes. Once a...
March 14, 2012
MasterCard Puts Grigg in Charge of Access Prepaid
MasterCard made a high-profile promotion in prepaid last week, naming Steve Grigg the new president of Access Prepaid Worldwide. The New York-based payments network acquired Access Prepaid for roughly $481...
February 29, 2012
EuroCouncil Sets Debit, Credit Rules for SEPA
The European Council approved a formal set of requirements for credit transfers and direct debit transactions, part of the Continent’s slow movement towards adopting a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)....
February 28, 2012
Facebook Credits: Do Payments Firms Need to Worry?
It’s a wallet, it’s a currency, and it leaps tall buildings in a single bound, it’s: Facebook Credits. And, yes, unless you have green kryptonite, if you’re in the payments...
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.