New Year’s Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline
New Year’s Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline
January 03, 2020  |  Payment Methods

Parking meters in New York City won’t take credit cards because they weren’t programmed to get card payments after Jan. 1, 2020, according to a...

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Samsung’s Neon, 2020 Trendlines, Faster Payments Top This Week’s News
Samsung’s Neon, 2020 Trendlines, Faster Payments Top This Week’s News
January 03, 2020  |  News

It’s the end of the first workweek of the decade, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...

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ECB Proposes Tiered Interest Rates To Control Digital Currency Volumes
ECB Proposes Tiered Interest Rates To Control Digital Currency Volumes
January 03, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

Digital currencies, yes – but with limits. According to a paper that debuted this week from the European Central Bank (ECB), central bank currencies in...

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LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
January 03, 2020  |  Investments

Latin America-based Loft, a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million...

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Top News In Payments: Apple Shares Hit Record High; CA Denies Lending License For Sezzle
Top News In Payments: Apple Shares Hit Record High; CA Denies Lending License For Sezzle
January 03, 2020  |  News

In today’s top payments news, Apple’s share price hit a record high above $300 on Thursday, “buy now, pay later” company Sezzle was denied a...

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Bitmain Co-founder Files Summons Regain Voting Rights
Bitmain Co-founder Files Summons Regain Voting Rights
January 03, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

The co-founder of Bitmain Technologies, Micree Zhan, has filed a summons in the Cayman Islands to try and wrest back control of his company after...

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Can Booze Help Build Better Retail Experiences?
Can Booze Help Build Better Retail Experiences?
January 03, 2020  |  Retail

That great wit Homer Simpson, one the most influential court jesters of the past 30 years, had this to say about the habit of drinking...

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Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
January 03, 2020  |  International

The New York Times is reporting that OYO, a quickly growing hotel startup that aims to be the largest hotel chain in the world by...

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Digitizing The Personal Trainer
Digitizing The Personal Trainer
January 03, 2020  |  Retail

It happens like clockwork at the beginning of every year: Consumers feeling bad about the previous eight weeks of overeating and indolence repent and join...

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