As cash use declines across Africa, Visa and Safaricom have launched a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa’s network.

The duo introduced the Fundbox Flex debit card for small small businesses and plan to add BNPL and instant disbursement through Visa Direct.

With more than 6 in 10 smartphone users adopting mobile peer-to-peer payments in the US across multiple apps, providers are looking to widen their addressable base, mitigate pain points, and drive engagement.

By 2026, nearly 30% of US consumers’ average retail spending (excluding food and beverage sales and ticketing) will be made using proximity mobile payments, as providers look to build on the pandemic-driven adoption of the technology.

US consumers can’t get enough of luxury retail: While Walmart and Target struggle, LVMH and Burberry benefit as affluent customers ramp up their spending.

Payment provider innovation across remittances, B2B payments, and retail card and noncard payments is setting a long-term growth runway. In the short term, providers must navigate a host of obstacles to enable more crypto users to become crypto payers—and so far they’re succeeding.

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Visa and Mastercard’s fee changes are set to arrive in April and could lead to industry pushback or the embrace of alternatives.

Sberbank and others are looking to China’s state-backed UnionPay to combat Visa and Mastercard’s exit from Russia.

Visa will help expand credit lines and security measures for Tribal Credit’s business cardholders across Latin America.

Amazon will accept Visa credit cards across all of its sites—without surcharges—after reaching a global agreement.

Legacy players in the $774 billion remittance payments market risk being relegated by digital challengers—unless they improve their solutions.

Payments Ecosystem: Acquirers and processors, networks, and issuers each play distinct roles in the payments purchasing chain. But those roles are shifting amid commoditization, new competitive dynamics, and technological innovation.

Payments Ecosystem: This year will reveal how providers must adapt to lasting pandemic-driven digitization across payments channels, ranging from in-store retail to B2B ecommerce.

Payments Ecosystem: Diminishing analog payment use—as well as the battle for share between entrenched electronic payment methods and emerging challengers—will intensify the battle for customer spending this year.

Long-time Olympics advertisers face controversy, waning viewership: Brands sponsoring the event are staying hushed to avoid upsetting domestic and international consumers.

Both card networks reported strong volume growth and outlined ambitions for cryptos and B2B payments.

Visa Acceptance Cloud, which lets payment service providers embed transaction software into digital devices, opens new acceptance channels for Visa.