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1.8KQR Codes Enjoy A Renaissance In A Post-COVID World
QR codes have been around for years, although they often seemed like a marginal tech solution in search of a problem. But as...
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1.9KSenators Push For Bill That Would Force Retailers To Accept Cash
If two U.S. senators get their way, cash will be king. Sens. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) have...
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2.9KVenmo Pilots Business Payments For Micro SMBs
Venmo will introduce a new feature for businesses to accept payments separate from the individual owner’s account, a press release says. The...
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2.8KBrazil Regulator Lifts Suspension Of WhatsApp’s Pair-Up With Cielo
Cade, the Brazilian antitrust watchdog, announced it would be reversing its decision to suspend the WhatsApp payment services partnership between Facebook and...
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4.3KChime Launches Credit Card That Taps Into Bank Account Funds
Credit Builder, a U.S. challenger bank, has debuted a new credit card that works like a debit card by letting customers spend...
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2.1KHow To Deliver The Modern Disbursements Experience
The world of business payments is a complex place, including both recurring and ad-hoc payments to a variety of recipients — vendors,...
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2.1KFlywire Unveils Revamped Education Payments Platform
With universities and students across the world struggling with a cash crunch amid the pandemic, digital payments company Flywire announced in a...
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2.0KGalileo Introduces Debit Card Aimed At Contract Worker Pay
Galileo Financial Technologies, the digital payments platform provider for many of North America’s largest financial technology companies, has launched what it says is a...
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1.9KTipalti Teams With Video Game Firms On Mass Payments, AP
Global payments automation platform Tipalti says it has made mass, automated payments seamless for numerous popular online video game customers, according to...
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1.8KGrab Puts Brakes On Payments Agreement With Wirecard
After auditors for Wirecard couldn’t confirm the existence of $2.1 billion in trust accounts and Wirecard’s former chief executive was arrested, Southeast Asia’s Grab...
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2.0KShift4 Introduces Contactless QR Pay Tech
Just as eateries and other business begin to reopen after COVID-19-related closures, Shift4 Payments announced Wednesday (June 24) it is rolling out...
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8.3KVerizon Debuts Visa Credit Card With Rewards
To provide a new method for cardholders to save on their cell phone bills, Verizon plans to debut the Verizon Visa Card....
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6.1KCheckout.com Raises $150M On $5B Valuation
Checkout.com, the London-based online payments software platform, has nearly tripled it worth to $5.5 billion following a $150 million round of fundraising,...
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1.3KBlackhawk, Pollard Banknote Team On Instant Purchase Lottery Tickets
Global payments provider Blackhawk will now work with lottery expert Pollard Banknote in order to let customers buy lottery tickets instantly, a...
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2.6KUS Casinos To Go Cashless, Citing Pandemic Fears
U.S. casinos are moving toward cashless gambling to protect customers and staff from the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Gaming Association (AGA), the...
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5.4KFIS Launches Pay By Bank Payments Through Its Open Banking Hub
A new service from FIS, Open Banking Hub, will allow customers to pay for items directly from their bank account, which has...
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4.0KCarrier Billing’s Coming Renaissance
Carrier billing has managed to establish a strong foothold worldwide — as it has been a popular way to buy digital content...
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4.4KHow The Pandemic Has Helped Push P2P Payments Mainstream
U.S. millennials were early adopters of person-to-person (P2P) payment apps, while Baby Boomers sought out financial institution-based P2P options and older consumers...
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4.1KHow Card Issuers Can Stay Competitive In The Post-Pandemic World
As consumers have been hit hard by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, card issuers have seen a sharp impact to...
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3.1KDiscover: 80 Pct Of Cardholders In Forbearance Paid On Accounts
Roger Hochschild, chief executive officer for Discover, said most of their customers no longer have trouble with making payments, Bloomberg reported. “Of...
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1.6KPaytm Postpaid Use Expands To Convenience Shops
India’s Paytm is expanding its Paytm Postpaid program so that its payments app can be used by such places as small convenience...
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1.9KNYC Public Trans Contactless Fare Plans Slowed
New Yorkers who were hoping the city’s public transportation network would soon accept contactless payment will have to wait. The Wall Street...
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1.9KAmerican Express To Donate Meals To Women’s Shelters
American Express is encouraging its cardholders to order food on Deliveroo, and every time they do, the global finance services company will...
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2.3KJudopay, Mastercard Team With UK Pharmacy Network For Payments
Mobile-first payments startup Judopay is collaborating with payments giant Mastercard to bring secure digital payments to The Pharmacy Centre in the U.K....
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8.5KPayPal Debuts QR Codes To Help SMBs Go Contactless
Although the country is starting to reopen following mandatory shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing is still a must for face-to-face...
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4.4KThe (Digital) Transformation Of Remittances, Bit By Byte
The pandemic has kept us all home — and for firms that have depended on walk-in business, transactions have slowed, or simply...
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2.3KCOVID Creates A Seller’s Market In reCommerce
Whether it’s called “certified pre-owned” or just plain “used,” reCommerce has never been hotter. Online marketplaces are well-situated for a COVID-triggered digital...
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5.5KCeridian Introduces Dayforce Wallet For Real-Time Employee Payments
Human capital management (HCM) software as a service (SaaS) firm Ceridian is launching Dayforce Wallet to give people the flexibility of getting...
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3.9KPIN-On-Glass, Digital EBT And Grocery’s Tech Enabled Future
Though the issue has captured a lot of attention lately as the demand for online grocery order for pick-up or delivery has...
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5.1KSamsung Pay Launches Debit Card, Money Management
Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. “Now...
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2.8KMobile Remote Payments Are Tailor-Made For Post-Pandemic Business
The two-decade-long trot toward digitization has turned into an all-out wind sprint, propelled by a global pandemic. As the lockdown fog lifts...
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4.7KDigital Payments Startup GPay Awarded Vietnam License
The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic...
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4.3KRemote Payments: The Next Normal
It’s an interesting time to be in the payments business. The analytics of the past few months, when visualized, might resemble a...
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7.7KGoogle Close To Launching Smart Debit Card
To reportedly help it compete with Apple Pay and the Apple Card, Google is creating its own tangible and virtual debit cards....
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3.9KAutomatic BOOST To Communities Act Resurfaces Digital Dollars
To help provide U.S. taxpayers with stimulus payments to get through the recession brought about by the coronavirus, the idea of a...
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5.4KKicking The Cash Out Of Japanese eCommerce
In developed countries, the notion of cash on delivery – COD – is a payments relic borne out of the days of...
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3.4KCisco Launches $2.5B Financing Program On New Products
Cisco, the California-based global technology company, announced a new financing program that allows customers to defer 95 percent of the cost of...
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3.9KSubscription Retail Services Report: Canceling Cancellations
Rare and dreadful “black swan” events like the COVID-19 pandemic inevitably impose new patterns of living and working as aftereffects. Add subscription...
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10.3KMastercard’s Ethoca On Helping Merchants Grapple With The Upcoming Chargeback Deluge
A deluge of chargebacks is headed toward the payments industry, spurred by the coronavirus, as all areas of the global economy have...
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3.2K‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Combats COVID-19 With Payment Options
We pay a price for not exercising, but conversely, gyms and online classes aren’t free of charge. The more specialized and exotic...
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3.7KHelping ISVs And PayFacs Survive (And Even Thrive) In Uncertain Times
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis are reshaping the way business is done — and the way we pay. A recession...
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3.0KRestoring Cash Flow…With Cards
Small businesses are the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which i2c President Jim McCarthy describes as unlike any disruption seen in...
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2.4KA Critical Look At Debit Routing
Debit has never been more popular with U.S. consumers, who made almost 73 billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018 – and...
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10.0KPay Cards, Flex Pay Options Help Employees During Pandemic
As the public worries about contracting the coronavirus, many Americans have a second concern: getting paid. And the pandemic appears to be...
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8.4KPaytronix Urges Restaurants To Use Gift Cards To Boost Loyalty, Sales
Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix wrote a blog post about the benefits of gift cards for restaurants, which can help ease the...
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8.6KVenmo, Square Cash Vie For Stimulus Funds Distribution
Venmo and Cash App want to be considered as ways the U.S. government could deliver its stimulus funds to help the coronavirus-wrecked...
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4.3KEU Encourages Contactless Payments To Reduce Coronavirus Risk
The European Union financial watchdog said that payment companies should use more contactless payments to help curb the spread of the coronavirus,...
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6.2KHow PayFacs And ISVs Can Survive (And Thrive) In Uncertain Times
The impact of COVID-19 will likely be felt over months and years, altering the business landscape in ways yet imagined. And for...
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2.2KIreland‘s AIB Drops Plan To Charge For Contactless Payments
The coronavirus outbreak, now spreading worldwide, has caused Ireland’s AIB to reconsider charging people for contactless payments. Contactless payments, after all, could...
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5.3KTransferWise Teams With Alipay For Money Transfers In China
London-based FinTech unicorn TransferWise said on Tuesday (March 17) that it is partnering with Alibaba’s Alipay to power international money transfers in...
