January 01, 2018
The 17 Most Important Stories Of 2017
Happy New Year! Ready to hit the gym? Gonna learn to speak Mandarin this year? Have a book club to form? Those are all perfectly fine pursuits - but before...
December 29, 2017
Sizzle Fizzle: Consumer Credit Use Sizzle, Apple Fizzles And Bitcoin’s...
The end is here. Well, when it comes to 2017 anyway. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
December 29, 2017
Pluto Eyes B2B Transactions With Mobile Cryptocurrency Exchange Tool
Pluto Exchange is launching India’s first mobile cryptocurrency exchange solution with an eye on a few use cases for B2B transactions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
December 29, 2017
Paper Checks Continue To Steal The B2B Payments Spotlight
2017 may go down in B2B payments history as the year the space finally saw a bump in attention from innovators. Amid the excitement over faster payment initiatives, blockchain, open...
December 29, 2017
B2B FinTechs Diversify Investment Sources Into 2018
Analysts are expecting a lucrative year for FinTech companies in 2018. Reports in American Banker this week said new research from Statista estimates FinTechs in the U.S. alone will secure...
December 29, 2017
Cannabis Science Banks On Blockchain To Solve Industry’s FinServ Problem
While legal marijuana made inroads in several states this year, federal criminalization of the drug means businesses that operate in the industry cannot access financial services they need like bank...
December 29, 2017
Gig Workforce Swells As Companies Shed Headcount
Long gone are the days when Ford, J.C. Penney and General Electric were the largest U.S. employers. A new analysis shows that the country’s outsourcing companies – including the likes...
December 29, 2017
Who Needs Gold? $5B In Oil Backs Venezuelan Cryptocurrency
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has vowed to back the national cryptocurrency, Petro, with the country’s natural resource reserves. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
December 29, 2017
Mastercard’s Miebach On 2017’s Big Payments Breakthroughs
While everyone is looking ahead to 2018, it’s worth a look back at some of the major payments milestones of 2017. For Michael Miebach, chief product officer at Mastercard, those...
Nine in 10 of the world’s central banks are pursuing digital currency projects, but private sector expertise and buy-in will be pivotal to their success. In this month’s “Blockchain Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with Algorand, Anish Jain, CEO of WadzPay, explains how blockchain’s interoperability with legacy banking systems is the key to its adoption.