Payments news and trends

Billing Shifts From Back-Office Chore to Customer Loyalty Test
Opinion // February 04, 2026

Streamlining billing and payments optimizes the entire customer experience, Paymentus President and CEO Dushyant Sharma writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Spotify to Use Checkout.com’s Global Acquiring Services
Partnerships // February 03, 2026

Spotify will use Checkout.com’s global acquiring services to facilitate payments for the users of its audio streaming subscription service. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...

Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
Payments Innovation // December 24, 2025

If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped “arriving” and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce, the most important shifts rarely announce themselves with a single product launch. They surface in how executives describe their constraints,...

Mollie Bolsters Payments Offerings With GoCardless Acquisition
Acquisitions // December 11, 2025

Dutch financial services provider Mollie is acquiring UK bank payment company GoCardless. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...

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Billing Shifts From Back-Office Chore to Customer Loyalty Test

February 04, 2026
Streamlining billing and payments optimizes the entire customer experience, Paymentus President and CEO Dushyant Sharma writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our […]

Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025

December 24, 2025
If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped “arriving” and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce, the most important shifts rarely...

Consumers Expect Inflation to Stay High and Financial Stress to Rise

December 09, 2025
Inflation expectations are steady, but households are not. The latest results from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released on Monday (Dec. 8th) show consumers believe prices will continue...

Suppliers Rip Up the One-Size-Fits-All Payment Playbook

December 08, 2025
Payment acceptance inside large suppliers has traditionally operated like a utility. As long as money showed up and could be matched to an invoice, the system was considered successful. Get...

Quick Reads
Stripe Valuation Approaches $140 Billion

February 10, 2026
Is payments FinTech Stripe on its way to becoming a $140 billion company? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications […]

Spotify to Use Checkout.com’s Global Acquiring Services

February 03, 2026
Spotify will use Checkout.com’s global acquiring services to facilitate payments for the users of its audio streaming subscription service. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Mollie Bolsters Payments Offerings With GoCardless Acquisition

December 11, 2025
Dutch financial services provider Mollie is acquiring UK bank payment company GoCardless. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

New York Cash Payments Law to Take Effect in March

December 08, 2025
Food stores and retail establishments in New York are required to accept cash payments for in-person transactions after a bill was signed into law by the state’s governor. Get the...