Payments Archives

Fintech

Super App-ish HitPay Raises $15.75M

We’ve talked on and off here about the notion of a super app. That’s loosely defined as an app that helps consumers or businesses do

Apple

Square Brings Apple’s iPhone Tap to Pay to Its Sellers

The waning of the pandemic doesn’t seem to have slowed down the movement toward contactless payments. Now, point of sale player Square (now part of

Payments

GoDaddy Follows Apple into Mobile POS

The company announced it will expand its existing in-person payment features to let users essentially turn their smartphones into payment terminals. This will utilize QR codes to signal transaction details from one phone to another.

accounting

QuickBooks Keeps Pace with Quick Payments Trend

Getting paid faster is the new getting paid on time. And we are seeing evidence of it everywhere. Uber drivers, for example, no longer have

Apple

Will Apple Bring NFC to SMBs?

In 2016, Apple brought NFC to the iPhone to complete “tap-to-pay” transactions. Now comes the next piece in the puzzle: accepting payments via NFC. We unpack the latest rumor.

buy now pay later

Video Vault: The Future of Payments

Fintech is revolutionizing the small business space. From “contactless everything” to small business lending to new purchase financing methodologies, fintech is making life better for

BirdEye

Birdeye Makes Payments Part of the Customer Journey

Customer experience platform Birdeye filled an important gap in its offering by launching Birdeye Payments. This is a new touchless payments platform, powered by Stripe,

buy now pay later

New Data May Fuel BNPL Credit Risk Concerns

New data showing rising delinquencies among consumers using buy now, pay later platforms will provide communication to those calling for regulatory oversight of this popular

MasterCard

Place Rewind: Defining the Next Era of Payments

The way we pay for things continues to transform. This isn’t a new trend, as smartphone ubiquity was the catalyst for years of ongoing payments disruption. But we’re also seeing new systems develop — the topic of a recent panel at Localogy Place.

Amazon

Amazon’s Next Trojan Horse, Part II: Touchless Payments

Following Part I of this series, we move on to Amazon One, the company’s palm-reading technology to streamline the retail POS. Beyond its surface-level dynamics, how does this play into Amazon’s broader retail tech play?

Acquisitions

Ekata Acquisition Shores Up Mastercard’s Identity Management Chops

Establishing trust while making real-time decisions on whom to do business with is a critical skill for a company like Mastercard. So it makes sense

Payments

ThryvPay Hits $10M Transaction Volume Milestone in < 6 Months

G2 recently named ThryvPay the No. 3 payments solution for small businesses, right behind PayPal and Apple Pay. On the heels of that award, Thryv

Data Scout

Will Contactless Payment Inflections Sustain?

One logical beneficiary of a pandemic-saddled year has been mobile payments. That cuts in two ways, as mobile payments piggyback on broader inflections in eCommerce, and as in-store shoppers are wary of touching things. We examine the latest evidence.