Flywire And UnionPay Expand Cross-Border Payments Partnership After a successful test earlier this year, Flywire customers using UnionPay to make their cross-border education and healthcare payments will be given a reason to choose UnionPay to make those payments in the form of subsidized FX rates. According to Ryan Frere, global payments VP for Flywire, the volume of high-dollar, cross-border payments in China is skyrocketing, and UnionPay wants as many of those payments running on their rails as possible. |
ISVs And Future-Proofing Payments Integrations As payment technologies evolve and proliferate, software companies must make payments integration a focus, not an afterthought. In a recent webinar with Karen Webster, Jeff Zimmerman, COO, Clearent did a deep dive on three ways to future-proof payment integrations, while Eric Rausin, VP of research and development at FieldEdge offered his POV as a software platform that needed payments to give field service workers access to a digital payments solution. |
Mezu CEO: What It Would Take To Replace Cash There are plenty of digital payments tools and platforms in the world, but according to Yuval Brisker, co-founder and CEO of Mezu, none of them are really a replacement for cash as we know it. Cash has a level of ubiquity and anonymity that many find attractive in this age of privacy concerns. Hereâs what Brisker tells PYMNTS a true cash replacement must do to get traction. |
| Disbursements Tracker™ | NEW REPORT: Can Digital Escrow Drive Big-Ticket eCommerce? For someone buying or selling a used vehicle online, trust in the payment process can make or break the deal. In the June Disbursements Tracker, Accruit CEO Brent Abrahm and TruckTractorTrailer CEO John Gillie argue that digital escrow services can help, since payments are disbursed only after both parties are satisfied with the transaction. Find that story and a Deep Dive on freight driver payments, and five new additions in the provider directory. | |