In this Business Wire article, the results from the Visa study that show small businesses and consumers are adopting new behaviors to deal with Covid-19. As small and micro...
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Rapyd Launches All-In-One Payment Integrated Solution in Mexico
Rapyd, a global Fintech company, announces the launch of their new integrated local payment solution in Mexico, allowing local and global companies access to every local payment method through one convenient API, contract, and reconciliation service. This means...
Mobile Payments Growing in the U.S.
Consumers are constantly looking for more convenient ways to make purchases. While some consumers are slow to adopt the use of mobile payments, many love the convenience especially as more and more merchants are offering it as a payment option. Many merchants are...
EBay splitting from PayPal
EBay has announced that it is replacing PayPal for its primary payments processing with Adyen, a Dutch firm. EBay and PayPal split back in 2015 but had still been tightly linked. EBay plans to take more direct control of payments with this new move and has said the...
AFP Payments Guide: Better Card Management Solutions
OPC's Anand Goel was quoted in this article in AFP Payments Guide. Ever-Rising Costs Push Merchants Toward Better Card Management Solutions As payment processes and technology become ever more sophisticated, the rules and fees related to cards continue to multiply, as...
AFP Conversations with Anand Goel
AFP Conversations is the only podcast for corporate treasury and finance professionals. Hear treasurers and CFOs discuss: capital structure, risk management, payments, cash forecasting, FP&A, budgeting, bank relationship management, short-term investing, FX, and...
Leveraging payment analytics to reduce interchange costs
By Michael D. Lenihan Published in AFP's Exchange Fall 2017 issue Did you know the credit interchange rates in the United States are the highest in the developed world? This might raise the question as to how your company stacks up against best practices and overall...