Powered by cloud-based APIs, modern card issuing leapfrogs traditional issuer processing to help non-financial services companies launch and customize card programs. Here’s where their offerings will be most disruptive.

After a challenging Q1, PayPal looks to be shifting its strategy to focus on high-growth areas. Business areas like Xoom might not fit.

Cryptocurrency volatility has tempered expectations for crypto payments. But it hasn’t erased them: Retail, remittance, and cross-border B2B payments remain in growth mode.

It benefited from increased volume in its key growth categories, like BNPL and Braintree

It launched crypto transfers between Venmo users and through external wallets and exchanges.

Payment service providers competing to serve small and medium-sized businesses have a new opportunity to win them over with cutting-edge payment, cash flow, capital, and marketing tools.

Visa+ will connect Venmo and PayPal before expanding to other wallets. Here's what it means for P2P apps.

Its falling valuation and tapering growth show that payment firms must work harder to build volume and attract customers.

It added Apple Pay as a payment option for Advanced Checkout and introduced new features to streamline customer checkout.

Through a multiyear agreement, PayPal will become Live Nation’s preferred payment partner.

This year, the payments industry will face its first major test following pandemic-driven digitization as economic uncertainty pressures customer habits. This is the data you need to understand the major changes facing the payments ecosystem in 2023—and how to navigate them.

Canada is behind other Western economies in digital payments adoption, but new technologies are finding footing against cards. Diving into usage among different demographic groups foretells how adoption will progress.

Consumer device and behavior trends are affecting payment providers’ strategies across retail, P2P, B2B, disbursement, and cross-border channels. Here’s what that means for the payments ecosystem.

This second installment of the “Payments Ecosystem” collection unpacks how point-of-sale (POS) hardware, software, and payment gateway services are becoming increasingly intertwined as merchants adapt to economic turmoil and consumer payment changes.

Economic uncertainty and rapid technological innovation are shifting industry dynamics for players across the payments ecosystem, including acquirers and processors, networks, and issuers.

The Web3 opportunity is real, but it’s tempered by misconceptions and little-understood risks. Financial services providers must first understand what Web3 really means to avoid disintermediation by fintechs and first-mover incumbents.

Its TPV grew 9% YoY, down from 23% a year ago. PayPal hopes to reinvigorate growth with cost restructuring and innovation efforts.

Major banks are jointly developing a digital wallet to fend off competitors. But the execution must be flawless to succeed.

Emirati paytech Tabby secured $58M in a sign of investor confidence in the region’s BNPL market potential.