Global Payments

Globalization is driving corporations to transact more frequently across borders. Consumers are also transacting more on a global basis—buying from foreign eCommerce sites as well as traveling, living, and working abroad. For the payments industry, the result is higher volumes of payments—in terms of both currency value and number of transactions. This is also leading to a consequent shift downwards in the average value of these payments.

SwatchPAY! Comes To Switzerland; Paytm Teams With Zomato For Food Delivery
SwatchPAY! Comes To Switzerland; Paytm Teams With Zomato For Food Delivery
January 17, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the availability of SwatchPAY! in Switzerland. In addition, Paytm...

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FinTech And Banking Apps Are Getting Stickier
FinTech And Banking Apps Are Getting Stickier
January 16, 2019  |  Mobile Applications

Consumers in the U.K. really, really like to keep tabs on their banking accounts. In fact, in 2018, they did so more than seven times...

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Hong Kong’s JETCO Unveils APIX Platform; Terra To Pilot Blockchain Payments In Mongolia
Hong Kong’s JETCO Unveils APIX Platform; Terra To Pilot Blockchain Payments In Mongolia
January 14, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the unveiling of an application programming interface (API) platform with...

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Tyro Brings Alipay To Australian Airport; Paysend Rolls Out PaySendLink Service
Tyro Brings Alipay To Australian Airport; Paysend Rolls Out PaySendLink Service
January 09, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Tyro‘s integration of Alipay into airport duty-free shops in...

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Singtel’s Dash Plans Remittance Service; KinerjaPay Notches $200M Investment
Singtel’s Dash Plans Remittance Service; KinerjaPay Notches $200M Investment
January 08, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Singtel’s Dash’s plans to introduce a remittance service to...

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Wirecard, Ctrip Roll Out Multi-Currency Card; Missguided Launches ‘Pay Later’ Option
Wirecard, Ctrip Roll Out Multi-Currency Card; Missguided Launches ‘Pay Later’ Option
January 07, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip’s multi-currency Visa cards...

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CoralPay Rolls Out USSD System; LeoVegas Adds Swish Support
CoralPay Rolls Out USSD System; LeoVegas Adds Swish Support
January 03, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the CoralPay Technology Limited GameTech rollout of a mobile payment and...

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Faster Payments For Corporates Begin To Simmer
Faster Payments For Corporates Begin To Simmer
December 27, 2018  |  B2B Payments

With the payments acceleration trend of recent years promising disruption in peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, these initiatives were viewed only in the context of consumer payments...

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Listen Up: Best PYMNTS Podcasts Of 2018
Listen Up: Best PYMNTS Podcasts Of 2018
December 26, 2018  |  Podcast

Don’t think of them as mere podcasts — though PYMNTS certainly does a lot of podcasts, discussing with payments and commerce experts the hottest topics...

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