Apple Pay Transactions Skyrocket Amid Global Expansion
Mobile wallet adoption may not be gaining traction for most, but Apple is an exception. During the quarterly earnings call yesterday, the...
Payments
PayPal Wants SMBs to Get Excited About ‘Business in a Box’
PayPal wants this to be the year it grows closer with merchants and small businesses. The payments company launched what...
Mastermind Behind Fyre Festival Also Failed with a Payments Company
Unless you have blocked all social media channels at once for the past few days, you have heard of Fyre...
Key to Mobile Wallet Adoption? Rewards, Samsung Pay Bets
It’s no secret that mobile wallets, although well-intended, haven’t gained much traction among consumers. In fact, a recent Accenture study...
Plaid and Dwolla Give a Boost to ACH in the Payments Wars
There's a war on in payments -- the card networks (and their fees) vs. everyone else. In the U.S., payments...
Popularity of Customer Engagement Tools Reveals Weakness of Cores
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- One of the major themes in the first day of Finovate Spring (aside from perennial favorite authentication) was...
PayPal Will Open Pay With Venmo to ‘Millions’ of Merchants This Year
From “select users” to “millions of merchants,” Venmo is about to make some serious strides into e-commerce. PayPal announced yesterday...
Consumers Want to Know the Social Impact of Their Spending, Aspiration Says
“Where is my money going?!” is a common enough shopping refrain, but consumers might be doing more than lamenting bad...
FIS Wants to Tackle Real-Time Payments with Incubator
Real-time payments have become not just an expectation, but the norm when it comes to picking a financial institution—both for...
Most Consumers Use Mobile Banking Just to Check Balance
That bank’s mobile app has a killer P2P feature—too bad most consumers are busy checking their balances. According to the...
