This Week In Payments

This Week in Payments: AmEx Launches a Checking Account, Consumer Financial Health Worsens and Everyone Ponders the Post-COVID Future
This Week in Payments: AmEx Launches a Checking Account, Consumer Financial Health Worsens and Everyone...
February 11, 2022  |  Digital Payments

The launch of an American Express all-digital checking account, a dip in the quality of consumers’ financial health and the changes at Peloton were in...

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This Week in Payments: Amazon’s Growth Slows, Competing Platforms Give Sellers More Options and the Metaverse Continues to Seek Applications
This Week in Payments: Amazon’s Growth Slows, Competing Platforms Give Sellers More Options and the...
February 04, 2022  |  Payments Innovation

With Amazon reporting its earnings this week, there was much news about eCommerce, competing platforms and the challenges around supply chain, inventory and fulfillment. The...

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This Week in Payments: Super Apps Proliferate, BNPL Sees More Competition and Grocers Boost Online Efforts
This Week in Payments: Super Apps Proliferate, BNPL Sees More Competition and Grocers Boost Online...
January 28, 2022  |  Payments Innovation

Super apps, buy now, pay later (BNPL), and the grocery category were in the news in recent days. Matt Naish, head of product strategy at...

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This Week in Payments: Microsoft’s $75B Purchase is a Bargain, Amazon Aims to Bring Innovation to Clothing Stores, and the Ford-Stripe Plan is the Future of Payments
This Week in Payments: Microsoft’s $75B Purchase is a Bargain, Amazon Aims to Bring Innovation...
January 21, 2022  |  Commerce

What were the three biggest news stories of the week? “Microsoft and Activision, Microsoft and Activision, and Microsoft and Activision.” So said Seth Gerson, CEO...

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This Week in Payments: Consumers Expect Digital Experiences Everywhere, Small Businesses Rapidly Adopt Tech, and Healthcare Demands Solutions to Complexity
This Week in Payments: Consumers Expect Digital Experiences Everywhere, Small Businesses Rapidly Adopt Tech, and...
January 14, 2022  |  Digital Payments

From restaurants to landscapers to healthcare providers, businesses of all sorts are rapidly adopting digital solutions to the challenges specific to their industry. The second...

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This Week in Payments: Smart Terminals are Taking Over POS, Apple Reaches $3T Valuation and 2022 is Another ‘Year of Crypto’
This Week in Payments: Smart Terminals are Taking Over POS, Apple Reaches $3T Valuation and...
January 07, 2022  |  Payment Methods

During this first week of 2022, the news included the future of point of sale (POS), a $3 trillion valuation for Apple and continued developments...

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This Week in Payments: Merchants Consider Crypto, Consumers Return to Stores and Fraudsters Target Shoppers
This Week in Payments: Merchants Consider Crypto, Consumers Return to Stores and Fraudsters Target Shoppers
November 19, 2021  |  Payment Methods

It was another big week for cryptocurrency — with news about regulation, crypto-native wallets and a huge new potential for expanded merchant acceptance of crypto....

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This Week in Payments: Robots Replace Waiters, BNPL Scales up and Facebook Rebrands
This Week in Payments: Robots Replace Waiters, BNPL Scales up and Facebook Rebrands
October 29, 2021  |  Innovation

Automation and digital tools are becoming mainstream and making their way into more areas of people’s daily lives. For example, this week there was news...

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This Week in Payments: Friction-Free Grocers, Disbursement Choice, and Longer BNPL Terms
This Week in Payments: Friction-Free Grocers, Disbursement Choice, and Longer BNPL Terms
October 15, 2021  |  News

Nary a day goes by without reports of some new development aimed at removing friction from the consumer shopping journey. This week, for example, grocery...

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