Where cash is hard to find, therein lies boon and bumper crop for digital payments. Reuters reported that in Venezuela, the economic crisis has fostered an embrace of electronic payments, done via mobile device. The newswire stated that everyone, “from vegetable sellers to taxi drivers,” has...
Concardis is expanding its international portfolio by bringing Chinese mobile payment solution Alipay to Austria and Switzerland. According to Finextra, CGössl is the first merchant in Austria to enable Chinese guests to pay via smartphone and the Alipay app, with the rollout in the Swiss...
Getting tuition paid is one headache. Sending tuition abroad can cause headaches of a different sort: How do you know if your check to Europe for that semester abroad will make it safely from New York? One partnership, between CashNet and Flywire, seeks to smooth...
Klarna, the Swedish startup that lets shoppers pay for goods after they are delivered instead of before (and incrementally over time if they wish), has picked up a new investor that catapults its valuation to over $2.25 billion. Brightfolk, the fashion firm owned by Danish...
June 09, 2017
Getting tuition paid is one headache. Sending tuition abroad can cause headaches of a different sort: How do you know if your check to Europe for that semester abroad will make it safely from New York? One partnership, between CashNet and Flywire, seeks to smooth payments for international students by making payment contextual and part of the billing process, as Sharon Butler, Flywire’s EVP of education, tells PYMNTS’ Karen Webster.
June 08, 2017
Behavioral analytics and machine learning can combine to root out fraud that is getting ever faster and harder to detect— even as payments go global and of course, are ever...
June 09, 2017
Concardis is expanding its international portfolio by bringing Chinese mobile payment solution Alipay to Austria and Switzerland. According to Finextra, CGössl is the first merchant in Austria to enable Chinese guests to pay via smartphone and the Alipay app, with the rollout in the Swiss market planned for October. In addition, Concardis has already implemented […]
