It has been reported that by 2010, cable television in the U.S. had sort of hit its stride. Analysts report that 90% of homes with a television had a monthly cable subscription that year, reaching some 105 million homes — most of the population. Hundreds...
African startup Union54 is reportedly developing a super app that may launch in September. The new ChitChat app aims to provide secure messaging, dollar-based virtual cards, and services around payments, gaming, dating and food delivery, Bloomberg reported Friday (June 30), citing an interview with Union54...
Forging a 21st century commerce ecosystem on a global scale means changing consumer behavior, and merchant mindsets, particularly in markets where digital remains a small fraction of how consumers and merchants shop and pay. It’s also an enormous opportunity for PayFacs to accelerate adoption and...
NFT marketplace OpenSea is teaming up with MoonPay to enable direct credit card payments for the purchase of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), opening the doors to investors that don’t own cryptocurrency, according to reports. People who want to buy, sell, trade, and collect NFTs can pay...
February 07, 2022
In 2022, customers don’t think in terms of siloed channels. They think in terms of shopping — and they want to move fluidly between the digital and physical realms. As economies open up, people are getting out, but they still want the easy digital experiences they grew to expect during the worst days of the […]
January 17, 2022
After a couple of years in which corporate crypto strategies were driven more by hype and fear of missing out than focused strategies designed to take advantage of the opportunities...
June 05, 2019
Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card rails in reverse has unlocked...
August 17, 2017
It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology shapes the way payments happen...
August 07, 2024
Stripe says it wants to help merchants show their buyers prices in local currencies. To that end, the payments company announced Wednesday (Aug. 7) that it is introducing adaptive pricing for businesses in Asia Pacific and Latin America, letting businesses automatically show pricing in local currencies for buyers in more than 150 countries. “Online shoppers […]
June 30, 2023
African startup Union54 is reportedly developing a super app that may launch in September. The new ChitChat app aims to provide secure messaging, dollar-based virtual cards, and services around payments,...
April 01, 2022
NFT marketplace OpenSea is teaming up with MoonPay to enable direct credit card payments for the purchase of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), opening the doors to investors that don’t own cryptocurrency,...
November 02, 2020
European payments rivals Nets of Denmark and Nexi of Italy have negotiated an “all-share” merger deal that would establish a large payments platform for the pan-European market, the companies said...
