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How India’s UPI Revamp and WhatsApp Pay’s Expansion Could Transform Banking

Fintech News

These changes, which include lifting restrictions on WhatsApp Pay and postponing the implementation of a market share cap for UPI apps, underscore the NPCIs commitment to create a fairer digital payment landscape in India, and ensuring equal opportunities for all participants, India TV News reported.

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PayPal’s Solid Showing To End 2016

PYMNTS

PayPal met analyst expectations as it reported its Q4 2016 earnings yesterday (Jan 26) — while adding active uses and increasing payments volume. The solid performance caps off a particularly active year for PayPal — its first full 365 day term as a fully independent entity. billion of payment volume in the quarter.”.

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Grubhub Fees Eating Into Restaurant Profits, NYC Councilman Says

PYMNTS

Gjonaj said the small business committee is looking into capping the fees food delivery apps can charge. . The volume of orders placed via mobile apps increased 130 percent between 2016 and 2018, representing approximately 60 percent of all digital food orders, according to the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker.

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2018 Was The Best Year On Record For New US Unicorns

CB Insights

More US startup unicorns were born in Q4’18 than in any other financial quarter in history, capping off the best year on record for unicorn births in the United States. While fewer seed and early-stage deals are taking place , an increasing volume of large, later-stage deals is bringing yearly funding up and creating more unicorns.

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Checkout Conversions Make History

PYMNTS

Try this: for the first time in the four years since PYMNTS began tracking checkout conversion, eTailers report that they’ve lowered aggregate volume of sales at risk at checkout by $76 billion within a single year. PYMNTS has tracked the vicissitudes of paying online since 2016. Did someone say happy holidays?

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ further alleged that LendingClub made the loans to bolster its underwriting figures so that it could make monthly loan volume goals. Last week’s announcements capped off two years of investigation into the P2P lending firm, and its board has expressed some relief that it seems to be time to turn the page on the events of 2016.

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Walmart Embraces Chase Pay (And The Rest Of The Mobile Pay Plays This Week)

PYMNTS

That means that Chase is now able to negotiate pricing directly with merchants – and is the cornerstone of Chase Pay’s announced plans to ditch interchange fees in the traditional sense for a fixed fee to merchants that would decline as merchants add volume. Alipay Is Expanding To … Everywhere. Germany, Thailand and Australia.