Mobile payments

For the 2020 holidays, retailers that enable payment flexibility by catering to global shoppers will prepare themselves for lasting success, ensuring they are on the right side of this industry transformation.

The Interac debit network is expanding online and in-store options for Walmart customers throughout Canada, looking to have new technology in place by spring of 2021.

It's not just payment habits that are changing, but the very nature of what people are willing to buy one another.

Crypto played a key role in Square's 140% year-over-year growth in revenue for the third quarter — and 212% growth in gross profit for the Cash App alone.

Contactless payments, staging and early wage access have built a permanent following and should be part of any alternative financial services mix, says DigitaMint's Marc Grens.

Reflecting the rapid transition to digital payments, PayPal has reported its strongest growth in total payment volume and revenue in its history, coupled with strong growth for Venmo, its P2P app.

The person-to-person network is being used more often for purchasing, with consumer payments to small businesses up sharply.

Amid the global explosion of e-commerce and demand for digital money transfers, Visa is acquiring YellowPepper to help drive tokenization and real-time payments in Latin America.

Cross-border payments provider dLocal has expanded its network services in Africa and developed new partnerships in Nigeria and Egypt.

Click to Pay is based on EMVCo’s Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) industry standard, acting as a form of guest checkout which alleviates the need for cardholders to manually enter personal and account information to shop at unfamiliar merchants.