It’s been a decidedly connected week in payments, with PayPal debuting its hotly anticipated super app, Alexa taking to the open road via the OnStar Guardian skill starting with General Motors (GM) vehicles, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) brand Affirm launching its Adaptive Checkout...
In a week that saw yet more big money moves into the buy now, pay later (BNPL) space and Europe laying out its plans — yet again — to create a continent-wide payments super app, the push to adopt cryptocurrency kept popping up as a...
Summer is here at last – the time of year when temperatures go up, the days get long and the pace of almost everything slows down to a more relaxed level. Almost everything – but not the payments and commerce ecosystem, as Karen Webster and...
If there was any doubt as to whether there is an initial public offering (IPO) boom, just take a look at the numbers: There have been 488 IPOs in 2021 so far, compared to just 62 this time last year. It’s a nearly 700 percent...
