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884WeChat Pay Rolls Out Utility To Transfer Funds Between Smartphones
Tencent’s WeChat Pay is launching a new payments feature that lets people transfer funds using a mobile phone number, TechNode reported on...
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2.8KMastercard Partners With Four Retailers For Pay By Bank App
Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay...
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1.5KUS Bank Partners With Alacriti To Roll Out Simplified eBill Service
U.S. Bank is launching its new eBill Service in collaboration with FinTech firm Alacriti to offer billers and payers simplified, faster payments,...
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2.0KPayPal Launches Venmo Credit Card
Online payments giant PayPal is teaming with Synchrony Financial to roll out a Venmo co-branded credit card next year, marking a first...
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1.9KSamsung, Mobeewave Partner On Contactless POS
Samsung has announced a partnership with Mobeewave for NFC-enabled contactless payment services on its smartphones, Samsung said in a news release on Tuesday...
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2.2KUK Contactless Payments Grow 18 Pct. YOY
New data from U.K. Finance shows that contactless payments in the country continue to grow. In fact, almost 50 percent of all...
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2.4KBilltrust Reports $30B In Processed ACH, Card Payments In 2019
Accounts receivable automation firm Billtrust announced that it is expanding its presence in Chicago as it experiences rapid growth, including more than...
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3.2KInstant Payments Are Here — How To Measure The ROI…
There are many ways a firm can measure the value of instant payments, and determine how much of a return on investment...
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3.0KVisa’s CyberSource Teams With Sezzle On Installment Payments
Installment payment solution company Sezzle has teamed up with Visa’s CyberSource payment management platform to offer consumers interest-free “buy now, pay later”...
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3.0KKlarna Surpasses 12M Transactions This Year
FinTech payments disruptor Klarna has announced the start of its “No drama, just Klarna” retail campaign in partnership with 13 brands in...
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3.3KMastercard Joins Pay.UK’s ‘Request To Pay’ Service
Mastercard is joining Pay.UK’s Request to Pay bill pay service to help provide customers with bill payment options, the company said on...
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2.6KWestern Union Says New Platform Strategy To Drive Growth, Higher Margins
Western Union Company is meeting with investors and analysts about strategy updates and its three-year financial outlook, the company said in a...
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5.8KWalmart Launches New Rewards Credit Cards With Cap One
Walmart has announced it is teaming up with Capital One on a new credit card to be released on Sept. 24, according...
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5.1KWhat The MyPayrollHR Debacle Says About Payroll’s Future
Perhaps everyone’s worst nightmare came true for 250,000 employees of 4,000-5,000 small businesses over Labor Day weekend: Payday came, and paychecks didn’t. In...
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2.6KCollaboration Is Key For Consensus On Cross-Border Payments
According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook, there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed,...
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4.1KStripe Launches Corporate Card, Expands Payouts To 45 Countries
Financial services and technology company Stripe now has the capability to pay out to 45 countries, and has launched a new corporate...
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3.3KStripe Expands European Presence
San Francisco-based Payments startup Stripe is rolling out its services in eight new European countries, the company said in a press release...
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5.5KVisa Powers MoneyGram Push-To-Card P2P
MoneyGram and Visa Direct have formed a strategic partnership to roll out a new debit card deposit service, the companies announced in...
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4.8KWestern Union, TRUE North Offer X-Border Tuition Payments
Western Union is teaming up with TRUE North to offer students a simplified payments platform to pay tuition and expenses, Western Union...
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4.0KUS Payment Card Market Tops $6T
Commercial and consumer cards issued in the U.S. generated $6.13 trillion in spending for goods and services in 2018, The Nilson Report...
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3.3KPYMNTS’ Labor Day Reading List (Without The Labor)
Reading lists should cut to the chase, pointing to what’s most urgent or cutting edge. PYMNTS offers dozens of reports, trackers and...
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2.0KGig Workers’ Preferences For Advance Pay Depends Upon Persona
The gig economy might be transforming many aspects of the traditional employee-employer relationship – there is still not a consensus on whether...
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1.8KWhy Spend Management Tools Matter For Field-Based Workers
Getting paid and reimbursed for expenses on time is directly related to employee satisfaction and retention. According to a study, 32 percent...
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4.5KDebit Cards For Kids — It’s A Thing
Paying out a kid’s allowance may not sound like a major payments hurdle to clear, but for Greenlight Co-Founder, CEO and father...
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3.5KAfterpay’s ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Option Adds New Merchants
Afterpay, a company that specializes in allowing shoppers to have the option to “Buy Now, Pay Later,” has partnered with J.Crew and...
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3.3KApple’s Shiny (Possibly Damaging) Card Offers Design Lessons
In the drive for luxury, for exclusivity, how far is too far before high-end goods risk alienating – well, everybody? Let’s start...
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4.3KPayPal Invests In Staffing, Acquisitions And Payment Tech In India
As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450...
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4.1KTech Glitch Halts Card Processing For Some Mexico Merchants
Shops in Mexico started asking customers to pay with cash after several of the country’s biggest banks started having issues handling debit...
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3.2KPaytm’s India’s Usage Plummets; Google Pay, PhonePe See Spike
After being a usage leader in India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Paytm experienced a sharp decline in transactions in July, while Google...
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2.2KWhy Regional Payment Preferences Matter For Global Subscriptions
Cross-border recurring payments are subject to the double whammy of facilitating local currency and all of the challenges that come with subscription...
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4.8KPayment Plans And The College Affordability Test
Call it the $1.6 trillion challenge. College is a rite of passage for some, a dream for others and a financial challenge...
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2.2KdLocal Expands Cross-Border Payments To New Markets
FinTech dLocal, which specializes in cross-border payments for emerging markets, has announced its expanded its payments network to include Indonesia, Ecuador and...
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3.2KHouzz To Launch First Credit Card, Co-Branded With Mastercard
Home remodeling and design platform Houzz Inc. is launching its first private-label credit card with Mastercard and Alliance Data. The Houzz Mastercard...
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4.1KReport: The Late Tuition Payment Epidemic
Over the past three decades, the cost of college tuition has increased significantly. According to the College Board, the cost of a...
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4.2KCan Uber Change The Subscription Game Too?
You have probably noticed, but in case you haven’t, let’s just state the blunt truth: When it comes to subscription commerce, one...
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3.5KWhatsApp Moves Payments From Pilot To Rollout In India
Following a year-long pilot, WhatsApp is now officially introducing a payments utility in India. The Facebook-owned messaging app is responding to the...
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4.1KNevada Marijuana Dispensary Uses Food Trucks To Sidestep Cards Regs
No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, NV calls...
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4.6KTaking The Cash Out Of Cashing Out Tips
You may have noticed in recent years that the cash you have in your wallet, pocket or purse tends to last longer...
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4.4KIf Real-Time Payments Is All About Now, What’s Holding It Back?
Now, now, now — that’s the chorus coming from consumers, merchants and other companies when it comes payments, and that demand is...
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5.9KPayPal’s Xoom Goes Global And Door-to-Door
Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service, is launching in the U.K. and 31 countries, allowing millions of users to remit in...
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3.0KAmex Write-Off Rate Is Down; Delinquency Rate Holds
American Express has reported that its American consumer card delinquency rate was 1.4 percent for June, the same number it was in...
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2.3KBank Of America’s Card Delinquency Rate Remains Flat In June
Card delinquencies have remained steady at Bank of America, which reported June credit card delinquencies of 1.56 percent. The figure registered at...
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2.9KOld Habits Die Hard For Accounts Payable
Accounts payable (AP) professionals often use established — if unsatisfactory and possibly outdated — payment methods, mostly because that’s just the way...
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2.9KThe Surprising Industries Speeding Instant Payments Adoption
The global value of real-time compensation is projected to reach $34.3 billion over the next five years, according to the July Disbursements...
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2.4KPoland’s BLIK Partners With Mastercard, Netflix And Uber For Payments
People who use Polish payment system BLIK will soon be able to pay for things like Netflix and Uber with it, according...
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2.8KCan Legal Pot Thrive With Closed-Loop Payments?
People can say what they will about the wisdom of legal retail sales of marijuana (we here at PYMNTS take no position),...
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2.9KAmex Card Delinquencies Flat In May
American Express said its May card delinquency rate was unchanged from April, according to reports. The rate held steady at 1.4 percent....
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2.1KDiscover Makes All Deposit Accounts Fee-Free
Discover Financial Services said Monday morning (June 17th) that it has ended fees on deposit accounts. The company said in a release...
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2.6KColumbia Care Launches Cannabis Credit Card
Columbia Care, a medical cannabis company that has licenses in 15 jurisdictions in the European Union and the U.S., is launching the...
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3.8KDiving Into The ‘Check-Replacement Cycle’
As much as 80 percent of firms still rely on paper checks. Only 3 percent of firms meet demands for B2C payments. Fiserv...
