According to reports last month, the Chinese firm is pushing to buy a 20percentt chunk of payment firm bKash, a move that would again push its reach deeper into South Asia.
But MasterCard faces increasing competition from other networks, including Morgan Stanley's Discover Financial and American Express, as well as threats from nontraditional companies that could try to grab a chunk of the payments industry, such as Wal-Mart Stores and eBay's Paypal.
The monthly payments, however, take off a huge chunk of your payment (or maybe that what it appears to feel like).
Despite Zelle's sizable chunk of p2p payment processing, it's less clear to what extent U.S. consumers are aware of Zelle.
Lucky for GE Capital, it has a rich industrial parent, which has helpfully diverted a chunk of its dividend payments and capital to the financial business.
This is a direct blow at one of the bigger third-party payment options that consumers have at checkout and an effort by Amazon to capture a huge chunk of the web's payment business at large.
That's a sizable chunk of the peer-to-peer payments market.
Eventually if Facebook was able to collect enough credit card numbers that it could support Autofill With Facebook for decent chunk of users, it might replace payment processors like PayPal, Stripe, and Braintree with its own payment processing system.
With vocal plans to keep us hooked on Destiny for the next ten years, it's wise to get this rabbit hole properly surveyed before offering a chunk of your soul as down-payment.
For example, an American mortgage-lender might sell a chunk of its mortgages, and the mortgage payments that go with it, to a Cayman company.
