Payment Methods

What is a payment method? Well there are many, debit, credit, ACH, blockchain, and cross border. There are also many other way to transact through the wires. Credit card, debit card, cheque, money transfers, and recurring cash or ACH (Automated Clearing House) disbursements are all electronic payments methods.

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Aggregators Boost Merchant Acquisition and Retention With Payments Orchestration
Aggregators Boost Merchant Acquisition and Retention With Payments Orchestration
April 21, 2023  |  Aggregators

Randy Guard, chief marketing officer and product officer at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that merchant aggregators are confronted with a host of challenges when helping their...

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Opendoor Cuts More Staff and Leads FinTech IPO Index Down 0.7%
Opendoor Cuts More Staff and Leads FinTech IPO Index Down 0.7%
April 20, 2023  |  IPO

Earnings season has yet to fully engulf the FinTech IPO sector. But there was plenty of other news to go around — where macro headwinds...

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UK Shoppers’ Use of Contactless Cards Spikes 94% YOY
UK Shoppers’ Use of Contactless Cards Spikes 94% YOY
April 20, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Contactless cards have long been at the center of the U.K.’s payments ecosystem, but now, digital wallets are quickly entering the mix. There is also...

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Mobile Wallets Change What Consumers Use at Checkout, Not How They Pay
Mobile Wallets Change What Consumers Use at Checkout, Not How They Pay
April 20, 2023  |  Mobile Wallets

Will payments in the future be made using cash, card or mobile wallet? The answer might depend on whether consumers make the purchase in person,...

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Small Businesses and Consumers Complete 639 Million Transactions on Zelle in Q1
Small Businesses and Consumers Complete 639 Million Transactions on Zelle in Q1
April 17, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Consumers’ and businesses’ use of Zelle increased about 30% year over year in the first quarter. The number of transactions completed using the peer-to-peer (P2P)...

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Stripe Offers Affirm’s Adaptive Checkout to Canadian Users
Stripe Offers Affirm’s Adaptive Checkout to Canadian Users
April 13, 2023  |  BNPL

Payments company Stripe and buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Affirm have expanded their partnership. According to a Thursday (April 13) news release, the expansion...

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Rising P2P Payments Driving Demand for More Seamless Money Movement Options
Rising P2P Payments Driving Demand for More Seamless Money Movement Options
April 11, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Call it peer-to-peer or person-to-person, but P2P is taking on new significance in a troubled economy where splitting the restaurant bill or lending your friend...

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FinTech IPO Index Gets 1.7% Boost on OppFi, Huize Earnings 
FinTech IPO Index Gets 1.7% Boost on OppFi, Huize Earnings 
March 30, 2023  |  IPO

One day left in the quarter. And then earnings season begins again in just a few short weeks. But even over the last several days,...

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Can Apple Pay Later Light a Fire Under Apple Pay Now?
Can Apple Pay Later Light a Fire Under Apple Pay Now?
March 28, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Launched way back in 2014, Apple Pay was supposed to ignite contactless payments, with Apple devices as the conduit.   Consumers would move beyond using the...

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