When it comes to organizing rec athletics, email chains are about as high-tech as it gets. In the latest Payments Powering Platforms Tracker, Greg Ludke, GM of sports organizations at TeamSnap, discusses the need for a payments-powered assist to help rec leagues streamline scheduling, communication...
Whether it’s planning for a first date to the movies or a honeymoon vacation, most consumers today do so online. Industries of all types are embracing the potential of embedded payments to not only sell products, but to help plan and purchase experiences as well,...
India, China and their powerhouse Asia-Pacific neighbors boast a massive regional cash economy, with residents spending a total $5.6 trillion in cash in 2016. But with some of the region’s governments demonetizing high-value notes and encouraging the use of digital payments, cash is now seeing...
Whether a consumer or a business, everyone wants to be able to pay easily and efficiently. Sometimes, though, making and receiving payments is easier said than done. Or at least, it used to be, until payments-embedded platforms came along. Solutions providers are increasingly working to...
January 11, 2018
Online shopping carts may soon be getting over their abandonment issues — not with therapy, but with new features that encourage deeper customer commitment. U.S. merchants were reportedly so plagued by shopping cart frictions that some $200 billion worth of sales were forgone due to frictions in the checkout process last year. Still, hope is […]
May 22, 2017
Following the recent worldwide ransomware attack, counterterrorism and cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke says the first thing to do is learn from mistakes. Clarke recently spoke with PYMNTS' Karen Webster about...
March 21, 2017
On Wednesday, March 29, negotiations for Britain to split from the European Union will officially begin. In this week’s Brexit Tracker, British Prime Minister Theresa May was given the go-ahead to pull the trigger on Article 50, and Robert Bolle, regional manager at AFEX, joined PYMNTS to discuss how political volatility as a result of […]
March 20, 2017
The bidding war for U.S. payments company MoneyGram is heating up. On Monday (March 20), MoneyGram’s board of directors said the latest offer from Euronet Worldwide, which it proposed last...
September 15, 2014
McDonald’s Chief Digital Officer Atif Rafiq was talking with a reporter last week about how “seamless” and easy McDonald’s will incorporate ApplePay, which makes sense given how the chain has been...
September 15, 2014
With soaring mobile purchases in China as a backdrop, American Express and China Mobile (China’s largest telecom) to jointly support an NFC mobile payment system Hebao, which had previously been...
