Payment processing

Offering the preferred payment method is essential to converting customers in LATAM. But the diversity of each country’s market makes this easier said than done, says PPRO's Steve Villegas.

For the past decade, the drive for modern restaurant point-of-sale terminals and software has turned into a highly competitive race seeking new looks and ideas.

Redwood City, Calif.-based processor i2C has hired Jim McCarthy as president, two years after Visa dismissed the card network’s former innovation chief.

Customer interaction platform Podium has added a Payments feature, allowing businesses to use text messaging to accept funds directly from customers.

More work is needed to bring processing up to speed for digital payments, according to Neocova's Sultan Meghji and Kelsey Weaver.

For real-time payments, there are national schemes to help drive adoption and enhance consumer convenience, according to Standard Chartered's Tarek Elyafi and Shantanu Vijaykumar Bhosale

The Fed can take steps now to speed up existing networks.

Immediate payments through an existing payments platform means firms can pay quickly, satisfying the expectations of gig workers who are increasingly important to the company’s functions.

Afterpay has found an opening in the U.S. by targeting the millennials who don't have a credit card to use at the point of sale.

Investors and deep-pocketed payments firms have funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into the payments industry, demanding results in areas as wide ranging as digital processing, consumer experience, risk management and compliance.