BJ’s Wholesale Club has announced that members who shop on BJs.com will now be able to pay for their purchases with PayPal, PayPal Credit and PayPal One Touch. Through the partnership, members won’t have to input their card payment information when making a purchase on...
Fighting payments friction is more or less PayPal’s DNA. In its early days (a little less than two decades ago), PayPal solved the payments frictions associated with using checks to pay for purchases made on eBay. One Touch Checkout on mobile in 2014, and on...
Viva Republica, Korea’s FinTech startup and maker of financial services app Toss, announced Monday (June 18) it has completed a $40 million round of funding raising. In a press release, Viva Republica said the funding came from GIC and Sequoia China, and with it has...
If one thing is certain about the future, it’s that nothing can be certain – so it’s best to be prepared for everything. But when it comes to payments technology, that can be easier said than done. Jeff Zimmerman, COO at Clearent, says that embedding...
With the U.K. increasingly embracing mobile, a new study by Verifone found that 29 percent of the country’s small and medium businesses now give customers the option to pay using an app in the store. In a press release highlighting the results of the survey,...
The PayPal service Xoom announced that it has increased its send limits to $25,000 USD per transaction for over 50 countries, including India, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Philippines. “Xoom customers can now enjoy even higher send limits with highly competitive exchange rates to conveniently...
NXP Semiconductors, Visa and Mastercard are launching mWallet 2GOm, a white-label service aimed at smoothing efforts to develop mobile wallets. As Rafael Sotomayor, SVP of secure transactions and identification at NXP Semiconductors, tells Karen Webster, whether it’s payments on your wrist, payments via spoken word,...
Cryptocurrency company TransCrypt has launched its beta payments platform to the public. “Today, TransCrypt reaches the biggest milestone in the company’s history so far with the launch of its app,” said Nick Machulis, CEO of TransCrypt, according to Mobile Payments Today. “We’re set on a...
AT&T has launched a new product, the LTE-M button, that allows users to place orders online in one click. According to Engadget, the service is designed for businesses. While it’s not pre-programmed like Amazon’s Dash buttons, companies can program it to accomplish tasks that fit...
