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2.4KRiverPay Aids Merchants With QR Code Payment Integration
The UnionPay card in China is accepted by more than 80 percent of merchants in the United States, but Chinese customers are...
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2.4KUber Eats Now Supports Apple Pay
Uber announced on Wednesday (April 17) that it is adding Apple Pay to its popular Uber Eats app, according to reports. Customers...
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6.4KWhy Card Replacement Is Every Bank’s ‘Moment Of Truth’
It happens. An issuer suspects a card has been compromised, or a consumer remembers that their debit card is in their jacket...
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5.3KThe Next Big Cashless Play: Cannabis
Blunt question for PYMNTS readers (pun intended): Have you been inside a pot shop lately? One of the legal operations that are...
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4.2KAtlanta Stadium’s Cashless Move Shows Little Demand For Cash
The move toward cashless has set in motion any number of initiatives, spanning any number of businesses where consumers shop, from retail...
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9.6KVisa Gives Businesses New Way To Pay Gig Workers In Real Time
The gig economy is growing. The desire to get paid faster is also gaining traction — along with the companies satisfying that desire....
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5.4KWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Credit, Debit Cards
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release, Wells Fargo said...
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4.5KDollar General, Western Union Team Up To Expand Access To Money Transfers
Dollar General and Western Union announced Tuesday (April 2) that customers can complete Western Union money transfers at more than 15,400 locations...
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3.3KReport: Richest People In America Have Record-Level Cash Stashes
The wealthiest households in America are stashing cash at record levels, according to a report by Bloomberg. The top 1 percent have...
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4.6KWorld Bank Sees DLT Potential For Cross-Border Transactions
The jockeying for cross border-payments continues, and SWIFT and Ripple continue to dominate the headlines. At heart of the matter, of course,...
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6.9KApple Debuts Apple Card, A Virtual (And Physical) Credit Card
And so a tech giant gets into the credit card game. And not just any tech giant – it’s Apple, the company...
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4.7KVenmo Pursues Customers With Negative Balances
Venmo, the digital money transfer company owned by PayPal, is going after consumers who have a negative balance in their accounts. According to...
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3.3KTwitch Removes Support For Crypto Payments
Twitch, the streaming gaming platform, has reportedly dumped cryptocurrency as a payment method. According to a report in CCN, citing a Reddit...
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4.6KSamsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way of life – even if they aren’t exactly...
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2.0KGo-Pay Wants To Strengthen Its Position In Indonesia Payments Market
Go-Pay, the digital payment unit of Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Go-Jek, plans to strengthen its position in the digital payments market as...
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3.4KBill Pay Service Doxo Adds Apple Pay Compatibility
Mobile and web payment service doxo announced on Thursday (May 21) that it is adding Apple Pay compatibility, according to a release...
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2.6KWorldnet, POSDATA Team On EMV Payments
Worldnet Payments announced Tuesday (March 19) that it has entered into a strategic agreement with POSDATA to deliver fully integrated and pre-certified...
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5.4KHow Many Multibillion-Dollar Deals Does It Take To Change Payments?
Behind the billions of dollars — OK, make that tens and tens of billions of dollars — in deal-making that has marked...
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7.8KWhat Is The Perfect Payments Experience?
Here’s an exercise that may come off as too academic – like a debate over how many angels fit on a pinhead –...
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7.7KSephora Launches Its First Credit Card
Sephora, the beauty retailer, announced on Thursday (March 14) the launch of a new credit card program. The company said in a...
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3.6KBarclaycard Brings Alipay To UK Retailers With New Deal
Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese...
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5.6KAutomate Or Stagnate: The Accounts Payable No-Choice Choice
Inertia is a powerful, if unhelpful, force in business. A process doesn’t necessarily have to be good or useful to get a...
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3.9KUPI, NIBank Partner For Latin American Payment Solutions
UnionPay International (UPI), a cross-border payments company based in China, has signed an agreement with Latin American bank NIBank to bring payment...
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3.8KAlipay Comes To Canada
SnapPay, the Canadian cross-border payments company, and Alipay, the Chinese digital payments platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced a collaboration Wednesday...
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3.4KUS Faster Payments Council Announces Founding Sponsors
The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), which was launched by the Fed in November, announced on Wednesday (March 6) its 20 founding...
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4.7KNFC Forum Shares Specs For QR Codes Alternative
The NFC Forum, the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday...
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3.9KBarclaycard Inks Deal With UnionPay
Barclaycard, the U.K. payment company, announced Tuesday (March 5) that it has inked a new partnership with UnionPay International, a unit of...
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6.0KApple Teams With Goldman To Expand Apple Wallet Card Products
Apple and Goldman Sachs, through joint efforts, will issue a credit card that links with the iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reported...
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8.5KFinTech-As-A-Service Eyes Global Payments Simplification Makeover
To streamline FinTech, and to help consumers and businesses transact in the ways they desire, firms must move beyond the silo approach....
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6.0KWestern Union Expands Amazon Payments To 10 Countries
Western Union has rolled out a new payment option that will let international Amazon.com customers pay in their respective country’s currency, the...
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5.5KRevolut Runs Into Trouble With Ad That Highlights Transactions
Revolut, the U.K. FinTech that has been growing at a rapid pace, was forced to acknowledge it made up stats for a...
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7.0KWhy Airlines Need To Get Their Wheels Up On Alt Payments
Time is up. That — according to CEO Kristian Gjerding of CellPoint Mobile and CEO Ralph Kaiser of Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) — is...
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5.5KPayPal Credit Reaches $50B In TPV
PayPal Credit said Monday that it has reached $50 billion in total payment volume. The company said that of that tally, PayPal...
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5.0KCurve Shut Out By Amex Days After Announcing Support
Curve, the U.K. FinTech that enables customers to consolidate bank cards into a Curve card, was shut out by American Express just two days...
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6.1KACH Payments Grow 8.7 Pct In Q4
During the fourth quarter of 2018, ACH Network volume saw more growth than it has in the last decade, according to the...
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8.5KMicrosoft Wallet App To Be ‘Retired’ On Feb. 28
Microsoft Wallet app, the company’s cashless mobile payment app, will be discontinued at the end of February, the company said on its...
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4.7KPatreon: The Billion-Dollar Platform For Content Creators
In the Middle Ages, if one found that they were the creative type, drawn to designing works of art, one would have...
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6.2KWhy Gig Payments Need To Be Just Like Cash
When looking at the latest edition of the PYMNTS and Hyperwallet Gig Economy Index, there are some familiar trends. According to the...
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4.5KGiving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method...
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6.0KTaking Cash-Back Rewards To The Next Level
As perks for consumers go, cash-back offerings remain the leader of the pack when consumers are choosing credit cards. In the U.S.,...
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6.6KPayPal, Mastercard Tout Bank-FinTech Alliances At Davos
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as...
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4.2KPayPal Offers Interest-Free Cash Advances To Federal Employees
To help those impacted by the government shutdown, PayPal is offering interest-free cash advances up to $500 to federal employees who are...
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5.2KApple Pay Lets Users Down Under Pay Merchants From Their Bank Account
Apple Pay, in a move that will let users in Australia skip credit card fees at places that support EFTPOS (electronic funds...
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5.0KSquare Launches Free Business Debit Card
Square announced Thursday (Jan. 17) the Square Card, a business debit Mastercard aimed at helping businesses manage cash flow. In a press...
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3.7KFiserv, Stack Sports Pair On Youth Athletics Digital Payments
Fiserv, a global financial technology company, and Stack Sports, a sports tech leader, have teamed up to assist in youth sports payments...
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4.1KTD Ameritrade Enables Instant Brokerage Account Funding Via Apple Pay
TD Ameritrade, the Omaha, Nebraska online brokerage, announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that it now enables customers to instantly fund a brokerage account...
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4.1KUnionPay Opens API To International Developers
UnionPay International, a subsidiary of Chinese financial services company UnionPay, is giving developers all around the world access to 18 of its...
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14.0KWhy The Physical Store Model Is Dead
It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it...
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7.4KOnline Sports Gambling Makes Bet On Faster Payments
Few things feel better than the rush of a winning streak — money bet on a football or baseball team, or a...
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4.3KAlternative Payments Gain Global Traction, But Cash Remains Tough Foe
The recent announcement that China’s UnionPay and Huawei are teaming up to bring Huawei Pay to Russia stands as the latest example...
