COVID-19’s impact on the U.S. payments industry and domestic economy is profound. Multiple reports from the U.S. Department of Commerce, merchant acquirers and PSPs indicate the extent of the pain even at this early stage of this pandemic-induced recession. For the over thirty million U.S. citizens suddenly without jobs and income, with many already living paycheck to paycheck, the word “pain” is inadequate to the current situation.
The impact, implications, and responses by the stakeholders in the U.S. payments industry are many and the subject of this series. Glenbrook examines the pandemic’s effects on the payments industry through Glenbrook’s domains of payment and stakeholder frameworks. This framework categorizes payments flows by transaction context and the parties most affected.
We will look at the short and longer-term impact of the pandemic on those stakeholders using or providing services within each domain. We assess the implications for major stakeholders and offer recommendations.
This report focuses on the U.S. market with reference to international domestic markets for illustrative and comparison purposes.
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- The Payments Industry Impact of COVID-19 – Series Introduction
- Point of Sale Domain – The Pain at the POS
- The Remote Commerce Domain Takes Center Stage
- Will Billers Push Harder for Digital Payments under COVID-19?
- The P2P Domains Gets a Big COVID Push
- COVID-19 Will (Finally!) Force B2B Digital Adoption
- COVID-19 and the Income Domain