The pandemic has changed virtually everything about the way we live, from how we access healthcare to how we shop and pay for goods. As going contactless became more common, digital payments ...

Research indicates just how many consumers who now use digital payment services, such as electronic wallets (e-wallets), QR codes, peer-to-peer payments and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), have started ...

A digital-first payment strategy isn’t just for use during a pandemic. It becomes one more brand touch point, affecting future purchases and helping drive revenue and customer lifetime value ...

One of the immediate effects of the pandemic was an acceleration of consumer preference for digital. Forward-thinking utilities evolved touchpoints around billing and payment, quickly digitizing and ...

21 percent of consumers use digital channels to pay more bills now than before the pandemic, an increase since 2020 (16%). Of those who are using digital channels more frequently, the following ...

About seven in ten chief financial officers have worked to increase their business’ payment digitization efforts since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, a new survey has found.

Digital-payment services are facing a surge in demand as efforts to stem the novel coronavirus pandemic result in housebound shoppers stocking up on groceries, prescription drugs, audiobooks and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined how health care is delivered as well as how people pay for it. On the delivery side, patients and doctors offices have embraced telehealth appointments; on the ...

As in many cities across the U.S., residents of Pocatello, a city of more than 55,000 people in southeastern Idaho, appear ready to embrace digital payments for municipal bills. Pocatello ...

This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have said it could have negative impacts on vulnerable recipients, while ...

Homebuyers made record down payments in 2024 . For all of 2024, buyers put down an average of $29,900, or 14.4% of the purchase price, marking the highest figures since tracking began.

Adyen’s business was boosted during the pandemic, but it can keep growing even as real-life shopping returns. ... Digital payment providers have been among the pandemic’s biggest winners.