Tag: Technology

September 5, 2023

A partnership between Amazon and Shopify marks a change in relationship between the two companies. In April 2022, Amazon launched its Buy with Prime feature to allow members to shop on websites outside Amazon while still accessing Prime benefits like […]

August 21, 2023

In her recent research on buy now, pay later, Consumer Reports Senior Policy Counsel Jennifer Chien was surprised by the wide variety of installment plan lengths and fees in the rapidly evolving market. “I came out of the research thinking […]

August 17, 2023

The equal monthly payments offering is now available at tens of thousands of other online stores, including Lenovo, Tennis Express and Authentic Watches, according to the email. The company first began offering BNPL financing in 2018, according to a spokesperson. […]

July 14, 2023

Apple has been steadily expanding its financial offerings in 2023. In March, it debuted a buy now, pay later service called Apple Pay Later. Then a month later, it added a high-yield savings account backed by investment bank Goldman Sachs. […]

June 29, 2023

The acquisition demonstrates Visa’s interest in global expansion under the new leadership of CEO Ryan McInerney, who was installed earlier this year after his time as president exploring the card giant’s worldwide operations. “Through the acquisition of Pismo, Visa can […]

June 8, 2023

In the rivalry between the two biggest U.S. card companies, Mastercard is betting on the rise of the open banking trend while Visa is less persuaded it will take off. The companies’ diverging views of the trend, which envisions consumers […]

May 25, 2023

Attendees at Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference last month were coasting through a late morning panel discussion on fraud just before lunch when one panelist’s comments stirred up the ballroom. Consolidated Edison Director Frank D’Amadeo, who leads treasury operations at […]

May 16, 2023

PayPal has planned for months to name a new CEO to replace Dan Schulman before yearend. Now, the digital payments pioneer is coming under pressure to speed up the transition. “Some investors are getting frustrated with what they believe is […]

May 12, 2023

Paysend joins a crowded field of cross-border payments competitors that are increasingly tapping new payment rails for faster cross-border services. Offering remittances services for migrants sending payments to family and friends in other countries is where most of the rivals […]

May 3, 2023

Partners at AH Capital Management, the big-name venture capital firm better known as Andreessen Horowitz, see an opportunity for entrepreneurs to design payment systems in what they call “high-risk” niches, such as gaming, sports betting and cannabis. Those areas, where […]

May 2, 2023

After a soft launch for some ISV clients late in the first quarter, the service became available broadly this week, so all ISVs working with Fiserv can turn on this capability for their merchant clients, a Fiserv spokesperson said. Fiserv […]

February 27, 2023

While Passbook was gaining traction with customers, the product was outside the fintech’s core customer segment, Oppenheimer told analysts last week. “We believe it makes sense to redeploy our resources to higher returning investments, targeted at our core remittance customer,” […]

February 23, 2023

Nacha, which governs the automated payments system, attributed the drop in direct deposits to the conclusion of federal COVID-19 pandemic relief and fewer unemployment benefit payments. Looking ahead, the organization said it is focused on encouraging the dental industry to […]

February 14, 2023

Walmart concluded that, for the time being at least, it no longer needs e-commerce-only stores because the company has added pickup and delivery operations to thousands of full-service locations in the years since the Bentonville store opened in 2014, the […]

February 9, 2023

The embattled CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, plans to retire at the end of the year, after the digital payments pioneer has struggled in recent years to meet growth goals and beat back mounting competition. Schulman said he spoke multiple […]

January 31, 2023

The PayPal job cuts follow a $2-billion investment in the company last year by Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor that often pushes companies to increase profitability in the interest of boosting stock prices. The value of PayPal’s shares have […]

January 13, 2023

Austin, Texas-based Oracle touted the new feature as a kind of one-stop-platform for retailers, where they can process payments, oversee inventory and manage staff. The company also argued that the services will be a less expensive alternative in the marketplace, […]

January 13, 2023

PayPal’s Xoom has offered money transfer services domestically since 2020 and expanded its cross-border capabilities last year. Now, it’s speeding up the delivery of the payments with an assist from Visa’s real-time system called Visa Direct. Xoom’s debit card deposit […]

January 12, 2023

Card giant American Express said it has agreed to purchase Nipendo, an Israeli business-to-business payments automation company, but didn’t say how much it will pay for the acquisition. Nipendo, headquartered in Netanya, Israel, “will make B2B payments processes much easier […]

November 28, 2022

PayPal is counting on its digital app to boost business as it focuses more on customer engagement and less on adding new customer accounts. To that end, one new service the company is testing is a teen account for users […]