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Payment system
A payment system is the organized arrangement of instruments, rules, participants, and infrastructure through which transfers of funds are made, from a card tap to multitrillion-euro bank settlement.
Payments bank
A payments bank is a restricted Indian banking license, created by the RBI in 2014, that accepts deposits and payments but is generally barred from lending.
Paymob
Paymob is a Cairo-based financial technology company founded in 2015 by Islam Shawky and two others, providing payment infrastructure for over 350,000 merchants across the Middle East.
PayMongo
PayMongo is a Philippine online payments company founded in June 2019 as the first Filipino-owned fintech in Y Combinator, letting businesses accept cards, e-wallets, and QR Ph payments.
Payne
Payne: chiefly a northern Canadian toponym. Payne Lake (Lac Payne, Inuit Tasirruaq), 513 km2 Quebec lake draining via the Arnaud River to Payne Bay, named 1945 for meteorologist Frank F. Payne; also lakes in Alberta, Ontario, and the US.
Payne rearrangement
The Payne rearrangement is a base-promoted, reversible isomerization of 2,3-epoxy alcohols that shifts the epoxide one position along the carbon chain, with inversion at C-2.
Payne Stewart
Payne Stewart (1957–1999), American professional golfer with 11 PGA Tour wins and three majors: the 1989 PGA Championship and 1991 and 1999 U.S. Opens; died in a Learjet cabin-pressure failure near Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Payne-Gaposchkin Patera
Payne-Gaposchkin Patera is a 100 km wide volcanic patera on Venus at 25.5S, 196.0E, IAU-named in 1997 for American astronomer Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), mapped by Magellan radar.
Payoff matrix
A payoff matrix is a table listing every combination of players' strategies in a game and the payoff each earns, written as an ordered pair per cell.
Payola
Payola: undisclosed payment for radio airplay, coined by Variety in the 1930s, outlawed by the 1960 Communications Act Amendments after the Alan Freed scandal, and reborn as streaming playlist payola.
Payoneer
Payoneer Global Inc. is a cross-border payments platform founded in 2005 that lets small businesses receive marketplace payments in foreign currencies, serving nearly 2 million customers in over 190 countries.
Payot (פאות)
Payot (פאות, pe'ot, payos) are Jewish sidelocks from the Torah's ban on rounding the corners of the head (Leviticus 19:27); long curled locks are a Hasidic and Yemenite custom, not a biblical requirement.
PayPal
PayPal is an American digital payments platform founded in December 1998 that lets consumers and merchants send and receive money online in about 200 markets and 140 currencies.
PayPal Mafia
The PayPal Mafia is the nickname, coined by Fortune in 2007, for former PayPal employees who founded or funded major companies like Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir after eBay bought PayPal in 2002.
PayPay
PayPay (ペイペイ) is a Japanese QR-code and barcode cashless payment service operated by PayPay Corporation, launched in October 2018 and grown to over 75 million users, Japan's largest code-payment platform.
PayPay Bank
PayPay Bank (PayPay銀行) is a Japanese internet-only bank headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo, opened in 2000 as Japan Net Bank, renamed PayPay Bank in 2021, and owned by PayPay Corporation.
PayPay Card
PayPay Card (ペイペイカード) is a Japanese credit card issued by PayPay Card Corporation, a PayPay group company, earning PayPay points and linking to the PayPay payment app.
PayPay Securities
PayPay Securities is a Japanese smartphone-only securities firm in Tokyo, owned by PayPay Corporation, letting retail investors buy stocks from 100 yen via the PayPay app.
Payphone
A payphone, also known as a pay telephone, is a public telephone that accepts payment by coin, calling card, or collect charge, first installed in 1889.
Payphone (song)
Payphone is a 2012 pop single by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa, lead single from Overexposed. Peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, first UK number one for both acts, 493,000 first-week downloads, RIAA 7x Platinum.
Payrav Sulaymoni
Payrav Sulaymoni (Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) was a Tajik poet born in Bukhara in 1899 whose ghazals blended classical Persian verse with the social themes of Soviet Central Asia.
Payroll
Payroll is the set of processes by which an organization calculates and pays employees' wages, withholds and remits required taxes, and keeps the records those calculations depend on.
Payroll tax
A payroll tax, also called a salary tax, is a tax on wages and salaries, collected through employers to fund social insurance such as pensions.
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (INSEE code 52) is an administrative region of western France with prefecture Nantes, five departments including Loire-Atlantique and Vendée, 3.9 million inhabitants, a 450 km Atlantic coast, and France's highest industrial employment share.
Paysandu
Paysandu Sport Club (Papão, Bicolor), Belém, Pará football club founded 2 February 1914; 51 Pará state titles, two Série B titles (1991, 2001), Copa dos Campeões 2002; plays Série C in 2026 and contests the Re-Pa derby against Remo.
Paysend
Paysend is a London-based payments fintech founded in 2017 that moves money between bank cards across borders, serving over 11 million consumers in 170+ countries.
Payson, Arizona
Payson, Arizona: a town in northern Gila County at about 5,000 feet below the Mogollon Rim, 90 miles north of Phoenix; population 16,351 (2020), home of the World's Oldest Continuous Rodeo since 1884.
Paytakaran (historical province)
Paytakaran (Փայտակարան), also Caspiane or Balasakan, was a historical province on the southwest Caspian shore in modern Azerbaijan; a province of Greater Armenia annexed from Atropatene by Artaxias I, later part of Caucasian Albania after 387.
Paytm
Paytm, also known as Pai Platforms, is an Indian payments and financial services platform founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma in 2010, offering UPI payments, a wallet, and merchant services.
Paytm Money
Paytm Money is an Indian investment and wealth-management platform, wholly owned by One97 Communications and headquartered in Bengaluru, that offers direct mutual funds, stock broking, F&O trading, and NPS through a dedicated app.