Every time a customer taps a credit card at a coffee shop, at least four parties take a cut: the card network...
On Singles’ Day 2024, Alibaba’s payment platform Alipay processed 988,000 transactions per second at peak load. The entire day’s sales across Alibaba’s...
Wise (formerly TransferWise) processed $118 billion in cross-border transfers in the twelve months ending March 2024. The company’s average transfer fee was...
India’s Unified Payments Interface processed 16.6 billion transactions in January 2025, worth approximately $250 billion. Five years earlier, in January 2020, UPI...
Stripe’s first seven lines of code, published in 2011, allowed a developer to accept a credit card payment on a website. Before...
When a Shopify merchant receives a notification saying “You’re eligible for a $50,000 business loan, click to accept,” that loan offer did...
Toast, the restaurant management software company, generates approximately 80% of its revenue from financial services. Not from its point-of-sale software. Not from...
Adyen published its API documentation in 2006 and made a bet that would define the next two decades of payment technology: instead...
In 2015, a small business owner in Lagos sending $10,000 to a supplier in Shenzhen would have paid roughly $600 in fees...
When Uber launched Uber Money in October 2019, it gave its 4.4 million drivers access to a digital wallet, a debit card,...
In March 2007, Safaricom launched M-Pesa in Kenya with a simple proposition: send money using a basic mobile phone, no bank account...
On July 20, 2023, the Federal Reserve launched FedNow, the first new U.S. payment rail in over 50 years. The system enables...
In 2022, Shopify reported that its Shop Pay checkout converted 1.72 times better than standard guest checkout. The difference was a single...
In 2021, Mindbody, a SaaS platform used by 60,000 fitness studios and wellness businesses, launched Mindbody Capital. The product offered cash advances...
On Singles’ Day 2024, Alipay’s payment system processed a peak of 988,000 transactions per second. To put that in context, Visa’s VisaNet,...
In 2005, three students at the Stockholm School of Economics presented a business plan at a university competition. The idea was simple:...
In 2012, Sweden’s central bank reported that cash accounted for 40% of all retail transactions. By 2024, that figure had fallen to...
The global digital payments market is projected to exceed $20 trillion in total transaction value by 2028’s Digital Payments forecast. That figure...
The latest data reveals a significant milestone for the payments industry. UAE Mobile Wallet Market Reaches $4.18 Billion: The Gulf’s Digital Payment...