Buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Sezzle is teaming up with travel payment platform Yapstone to bring installment payments to vacation rentals, according to a Monday (March 7) press release. The partnership connects Yapstone’s millions of consumers with Sezzle’s long-term financing product, which offers 0% APR...
Travel now, pay later has existed at least as long as the credit card, but the concept is rapidly modernizing as buy now, pay later (BNPL) pushes deeper into the travel and hospitality space this year, helping operators fill airplanes and rooms as inflation slows...
By the end of 2020 four in 10 shoppers worldwide will belong to Gen Z, the consumer group born more or less between 1996 and 2010. A bit younger than their millennial siblings and cousins, they’ve grown up totally mobile, and have idiosyncrasies that make...
The sharing economy’s business model is straightforward: Individuals list goods and services on curated online platforms that foster pain-free connections to renters or buyers. Such transparency between buyers and sellers allows the economy to quickly grow — but also presents fraud and security challenges. Fraudsters...
January 30, 2020
The sharing economy is undergoing a sea change due to Generation Z’s coming of age. Experts expect this generation, which heavily favors the sharing and gig economies, to account for 40 percent of all global shoppers by the end of 2020. Businesses are struggling to balance the needs of established shoppers, who expect payment perks […]
November 26, 2019
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on...
November 12, 2019
Two decades ago, the world stood on the brink of a digital commerce inflection point — even though many didn’t quite know it yet. In 1995, the tech boom got...
September 26, 2019
Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act that provides cannabis businesses with banking access. Also, SoftBank Group reportedly intends...
March 07, 2022
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Sezzle is teaming up with travel payment platform Yapstone to bring installment payments to vacation rentals, according to a Monday (March 7) press release. The partnership connects Yapstone’s millions of consumers with Sezzle’s long-term financing product, which offers 0% APR options. People can choose among the thousands of vacation rentals […]
May 08, 2019
Payments platform operator Yapstone has expanded its work with Rentals.com, enabling it to allow any renter to pay any landlord digitally. In a press release, Rentals.com said it expanded its RentPay...
February 13, 2018
YapStone, the online and mobile payment company, has raised $71 million in venture capital funding. According to news from Financial Technology Partners, which advised YapStone on the Series C round of...
December 30, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. We posed...
