Payment Systems
What is BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later)?
The term 'Buy Now, Pay Later' (BNPL) refers to deferring payment on a purchase to a later date. The product is delivered to the customer before any payment is made, and the customer pays afterward.
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Open Banking
What Is Embedded Finance?
Embedded Finance means integrating financial products and services into non-financial platforms, experiences or business processes. In other words, services offered by financial institutions become part of the product or service flows of non-financial organizations.
Credit Card
What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Credit Card?
Credit cards can be a convenient way to manage income and expenses, but for those who don't know how to use them, they can become an expensive and risky product. Here are the key pros and cons to weigh before applying for one.
Credit Card
What benefits do credit cards provide to cardholders?
Many people who appear as credit card victims in the news and on social media run into trouble because they think their credit limit is unlimited and forget it must eventually be repaid. A credit card is the best payment instrument, if you know how to use it.
Agentic Commerce
Agentic Commerce Series – Part 4
Are We Ready to Give an AI Agent the Authority to Make Payments? Having long looked at complaint and dispute processes in payment systems, I think granting an agent payment authority is far different from research or product selection.
Credit Card
Does Credit Card Usage Increase Inflation?
The effect of credit cards on inflation has been debated for years. Because I am asked about it so often, I ran a poll on arifunal.com to gather readers' views. This post weighs the positive and negative effects and compares the poll with the research findings.
Merchant & POS
What is One-Click Payment?
In online shopping, the payment method that lets card details be entered once and then reused automatically in later purchases is called 'one-click payment'. Patented by Amazon in 1999, it has been described as a revolution in e-commerce.
Payment Systems
What are Payment Systems?
Let's talk about payment systems, which we have heard more about since the internet entered our lives, and the basic structures behind them. The first credit card in the world was used in America in the 1920s.
Agentic Commerce
Agentic Commerce Series – Part 3
Can AI Decide on Our Behalf? Letting an AI agent handle research can make life much easier. The real question is where that should stop, and how much decision-making authority we are ready to hand over.
Payment Systems
When Does a Transit Card Become a Payment System? The Istanbulkart Example | #3
When Does a Transit Card Become a Payment System? Millions of people in Istanbul use Istanbulkart every day. Passing through metro turnstiles, rushing to a bus or boarding a ferry at the last moment, our hand reaches almost by reflex for our card or our phone...
Merchant & POS
How to Reduce the Cart Abandonment Rate
One of the biggest problems for e-commerce companies is attracting customers to their sites, but getting visitors to actually buy is just as hard. This post covers practical ways to reduce cart abandonment, from guest checkout to fast payment options.