Payment Methods

What is a payment method? Well there are many, debit, credit, ACH, blockchain, and cross border. There are also many other way to transact through the wires. Credit card, debit card, cheque, money transfers, and recurring cash or ACH (Automated Clearing House) disbursements are all electronic payments methods.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

UK Payments Regulator Seeks More Transparency in Card-Acquiring Market
UK Payments Regulator Seeks More Transparency in Card-Acquiring Market
January 27, 2022  |  Regulation

The U.K. Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published a public consultation on January 26 in which it considers applying four potential remedies in the card-acquiring market. ...

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Apple Makes New Moves to Turn iPhones into Payment Terminals
Apple Makes New Moves to Turn iPhones into Payment Terminals
January 27, 2022  |  Apple

Small businesses will soon be able to take payments on iPhones without additional hardware, a feature Apple started developing in 2020 with its $100 million...

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Klarna Intros Physical Card in UK
Klarna Intros Physical Card in UK
January 26, 2022  |  BNPL

Buy now pay later (BNPL) banking platform Klarna is introducing a physical Visa card in the U.K. that already has a waitlist of 400,000, according...

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The Three Most Important Questions for the Fed on Its CBDC Plans
The Three Most Important Questions for the Fed on Its CBDC Plans
January 24, 2022  |  CBDC

The Fed released its long-awaited paper on Central Bank Digital Currencies last week. After reading it, I don’t get the feeling that even the authors...

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BitPay Sees Consumer Crypto Payments Growing Beyond Bitcoin
BitPay Sees Consumer Crypto Payments Growing Beyond Bitcoin
January 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

As merchants and consumers become more familiar with cryptocurrencies and the number of ways to use them commercially expands, bitcoin is losing its dominance as...

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OCC’s Hsu: Stablecoins Can Boost Innovation If Regulated Like Banks
OCC’s Hsu: Stablecoins Can Boost Innovation If Regulated Like Banks
January 13, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

There are a number of ways to read between the lines of the speech about stablecoins Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu made at...

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Retailers Look to Leverage the ‘Now’ in Buy Now, Pay Later
Retailers Look to Leverage the ‘Now’ in Buy Now, Pay Later
December 31, 2021  |  Buy Now Pay Later

In retrospect, there are the trends, the seismic shifts in the payments landscape that seem “obvious” and that we might have spotted a mile away....

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FloBiz Debuts Retail POS Billing Solution myBillBook
FloBiz Debuts Retail POS Billing Solution myBillBook
December 28, 2021  |  Retail

Bengaluru-based FinTech FloBiz on Tuesday (Dec. 28) launched a point of sale billing solution for retailers and franchises through its billing and accounting software platform...

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Apple Ordered to Open Payment Gates on Dutch Dating Apps
Apple Ordered to Open Payment Gates on Dutch Dating Apps
December 27, 2021  |  Apple

Dutch authorities have ordered Apple to allow dating apps to accept payments using solutions outside the iPhone maker’s walls, according to a statement from The...

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