Tag: alternative payment methods

Pawn shops, check cashing services, rent-to-own stores are all doing well and their customers are often young Americans with very good income....

In Kenya, where only 10% of consumers have bank accounts, M-Pesa offers a service that no one else provides. That is not the case in, say, India....

Just as PayPal did a decade ago, Square has created a new subset of the payment industry that caters not to businesses, but to individual consumers....

Time is running out for Dwolla, but perhaps it could still be acquired by a bank who would use its platform to compete with clearXchange....

Facebook will not displace credit cards, used for the purchasing of many of its credits, but the social network will compete with payment processors....