Payments Choice news and trends

Mexican Consumers Seek More Payments Choice and Product Details
Retail // June 03, 2024

Consumers around the world want to access specific digital features when shopping, whether they are perusing aisle 3 or clicking from their couch at home. PYMNTS Intelligence recently investigated this topic in our “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index,” a series of reports commissioned by Visa...

Transaction Network Services Debuts Payment Platform
Payment Methods // April 16, 2024

Payments infrastructure provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched payment and network solution Complete Commerce.  As the company noted in a Tuesday (April 16) news release, enterprises need to deliver user-friendly, reliable and secure payments experiences while also juggling evolving consumer behavior, regulatory demands and technology...

Payments Choice Boosts Clinical Trial Participation and Drug Development Outcomes
Healthcare // February 22, 2024

Advancements in healthcare — and especially new drug and treatment protocols — hinge on clinical trials. Sayantan Chakraborty, global co-head of treasury services payments at J.P. Morgan Payments, and Winny Li, group treasurer at pharma firm PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, told Karen Webster that the consumerization...

Global Processing Services Rebrands as Thredd, Aims to Expand
Payments As A Service // April 27, 2023

Global Processing Services (GPS) has rebranded as Thredd. The new name reflects the global payments platform’s role in “weaving together” different elements of the payments ecosystem, Thredd said in a Thursday (April 27) press release. “Our rebranding to Thredd marks a new era for our...

Interviews & Exclusives
Exclusive: Amazon Canada Taps Visa for Installment Plans

June 27, 2024
Some of the seven new product and feature announcements Visa announced at its May 15 user conference are starting to gain traction. Case in point: Flexible Credentials and installments. When it was first announced, Mark Nelsen, senior vice president and global head of consumer payments at Visa, told PYMNTS’ CEO Karen Webster that one of the […]

Mexican Consumers Seek More Payments Choice and Product Details

June 03, 2024
Consumers around the world want to access specific digital features when shopping, whether they are perusing aisle 3 or clicking from their couch at home. PYMNTS Intelligence recently investigated this...

Credit Unions Take Page From Apple’s Playbook in Solving Member Problems

January 20, 2023
At a time of economic uncertainty — with high inflation rates and 74% of consumers concerned about their personal finances — consumers increasingly want payments choice and flexibility. In PSCU’s...

Public Transit Authorities Mull Adding Payment Options to Boost Ridership

November 30, 2022
Public transit is still reeling from pandemic impacts that left trains and buses mostly empty in 2020 and 2021. Recently, there’s been a push by transit authorities to consider open-loop...

Quick Reads
Transaction Network Services Debuts Payment Platform

April 16, 2024
Payments infrastructure provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched payment and network solution Complete Commerce.  As the company noted in a Tuesday (April 16) news release, enterprises need to deliver user-friendly, reliable and secure payments experiences while also juggling evolving consumer behavior, regulatory demands and technology modernization.  “Complete Commerce helps solve this payment complexity by leveraging […]

Global Processing Services Rebrands as Thredd, Aims to Expand

April 27, 2023
Global Processing Services (GPS) has rebranded as Thredd. The new name reflects the global payments platform’s role in “weaving together” different elements of the payments ecosystem, Thredd said in a...

Nuvei Integrates With Travel Software Provider Sabre

April 25, 2023
Payments FinTech Nuvei has integrated its platform with travel software firm Sabre. The integration, announced Tuesday (April 25), will let Sabre offer its partners a “superior customer payments experience,” helping...

Finaro and MultiPay Partner to Streamline In-Store and Online Payments

April 25, 2023
Finaro and MultiPay have partnered to help merchants accept both in-store and online payments. The new partnership aims to offer an improved, unified payment acceptance solution for merchants in the...