Payments Ecosystem news and trends

Can ISVs And ISOs Thrive Amid Payments Megadeals?
Ecosystems // July 24, 2019

So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad services under collectively fewer roofs, and perhaps leaving independent sales organizations (ISOs) and integrated software vendors (ISVs) wondering what’s next. In an interview...

CO-OP CEO On The Power Of A Payments Ecosystem
Credit Unions // June 27, 2019

Credit unions (CUs) often have deep relationships with their customers, but they don't often have primary financial institution status with them. CO-OP Financial Services President and CEO Todd Clark tells Karen Webster that it’s because of their service offerings – particularly around payments. CUs can't...

How Many Multibillion-Dollar Deals Does It Take To Change Payments?
Payment Methods // March 19, 2019

Behind the billions of dollars — OK, make that tens and tens of billions of dollars — in deal-making that has marked the payments space in the just the first few weeks of 2019, lies, of course … strategy. And it’s grand strategy at that,...

With New Deal, Western Union And M-PESA Make Global P2P Wave
Global Payments // November 07, 2018

Western Union and M-PESA announce today a global P2P partnership that will make it easier for M-PESA customers to send money outside of Kenya and for this highly popular mobile payments platform to scale globally. The decade-plus story of Kenya’s M-PESA stands as a successful tale...

Interviews & Exclusives
Can ISVs And ISOs Thrive Amid Payments Megadeals?

July 24, 2019
So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad services under collectively fewer roofs, and perhaps leaving independent sales organizations (ISOs) and integrated software vendors (ISVs) wondering what’s next. In an interview with PYMNTS, Chuck Danner, chief product officer, North America at […]

CO-OP CEO On The Power Of A Payments Ecosystem

June 27, 2019
Credit unions (CUs) often have deep relationships with their customers, but they don't often have primary financial institution status with them. CO-OP Financial Services President and CEO Todd Clark tells...

How Many Multibillion-Dollar Deals Does It Take To Change Payments?

March 19, 2019
Behind the billions of dollars — OK, make that tens and tens of billions of dollars — in deal-making that has marked the payments space in the just the first...

With New Deal, Western Union And M-PESA Make Global P2P Wave

November 07, 2018
Western Union and M-PESA announce today a global P2P partnership that will make it easier for M-PESA customers to send money outside of Kenya and for this highly popular mobile...