Tag: Cannabis

Explore how cannabis businesses intersect with payments and banking, including cash-intensive operations, compliance challenges, merchant acquiring constraints, and evolving regulatory frameworks shaping financial access.

Making an End Run Around Weed Payment Laws—in Utah

by Tom Nawrocki

October 31, 2024

You know the cannabis industry has come a long way when the state of Utah is naming an approved payment ...

2021 Fintech Predictions

by Kim Miller

February 8, 2021

Two years ago, we predicted that card-not-present would be the future of payments. We had no idea that COVID-19 would ...

Akerna Signs Agreement with Priority Technology Holdings

by PaymentsJournal

August 21, 2020

Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), a leading compliance technology provider and developer of the cannabis industry’s first seed-to-sale enterprise resource planning (ERP) ...

What to Know About Banking and Payments Challenges in the Budding Legal Cannabis Industry

by Rachel Gore

June 22, 2020

The legal cannabis industry has experienced immense growth in recent years, as an increasing number of states opt to decriminalize ...

B2B Amazon-like Platform Aims to Change Payments in Cannabis Industry

by Steve Murphy

December 13, 2019

Cannabis digital payments could provide an important alternative to the cash-heavy transactions that remain common across the U.S. cannabis industry. ...