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364Restoring 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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436A 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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4.0KPay 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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4.6KPaytronix 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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4.4KVenmo, 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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1.8KEU 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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4.2KHow 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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1.4KIreland‘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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2.5KTransferWise 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...
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2.2KToday In Payments: Mastercard, Samsung Team For Pay On Demand; Coronavirus’ Contagion Spreads Across Travel Ecosystem
In today’s top news, Mastercard is partnering with Samsung to bring Pay On Demand to emerging markets, and new travel curbs imposed...
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2.6KWirecard Partners With Klarna For Payments
German payments company Wirecard said on Thursday (March 11) that it is partnering with Sweden’s FinTech startup Klarna for integrated payments. The...
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2.5K‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Goes Big
What instant lending innovation have shoppers fallen in love with? Here’s a hint: We’ll tell you now … and you can thank...
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4.9KFiserv On Why 2020 Is ‘The Year Of P2P’
Will this be the year that real-time payments — and, especially, peer-to-peer (P2P) — reach critical mass in the United States? In...
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1.4KNext-Gen Debit Still Ahead Of Its Time
When the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service disburses monies to federal benefit recipients, from veterans to senior...
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3.6KMastercard, Rakuten Viber Team To Bring P2P Transfers To Romania
Mastercard has expanded its partnership with Rakuten Viber to bring peer-to-peer (P2P) payments to Romania via Moneytou, which makes transferring money easy,...
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2.2KeScooter Startup Bird Trials Payments Feature
Silicon Valley-based micromobility startup Bird is launching an in-app payments feature that enables its electronic scooter (eScooter) riders to buy from local...
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5.1KFiserv Connects 600 Banks, CUs To Zelle
Almost 600 banks and credit unions have joined the Turnkey Service from payments startup Zelle via the FinTech solutions firm Fiserv to...
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2.4KPaytm To Sell, Recharge eToll Payment Tags In India
Paytm Payments Bank is teaming up with ride-hailing firms — including Ola and Uber — to enable some 100,000 drivers to buy...
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2.6Ki2c, SmartHealth PayCard Partner For Health Credit Card
Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with FinTech healthcare credit card SmartHealth PayCard, i2c announced on Tuesday (Feb. 18). SmartHealth...
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5.4KFiserv’s Clover Lets Diners Scan To Pay With Apple Pay
FinTech Fiserv has introduced a new way to pay at restaurants through its Clover platform, called Scan to Pay, according to a...
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1.4KBNPL Drives Customer Acquisition, Cuts Cart Abandonment
Among the more notable payment trends of 2019 and 2020 is the rapid rise of the buy now, pay later (BNPL) options...
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2.6KBuy Now Pay Later Startup Sezzle Tops 1M Active Customers
Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered...
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4.1KAustralia’s Central Bank Calls For Switch From Visa, Mastercard To Cheaper EFTPOS
Australian regulators are considering whether it is necessary to stop banks from automatically routing “tap and go” card payments through Visa and...
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2.9KIn Search Of Consumer Spending’s New Normal
If pre-season estimates were correct, this holiday season was worth $1 trillion in the United States alone. And even if it doesn’t quite...
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2.1KDebit Beats Credit With Bridge Millennials
Would you pay interest on a cup of coffee? Not willingly – unless you use a credit card at the POS terminal,...
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2.9KFCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On NonPayers
The U.K. financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is telling credit card companies to reduce fees on nonpayers’ debt rather than...
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5.7KCBA Invests $200M In Klarna For Australian Rollout
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has invested $200 million in the Swedish FinTech unicorn Klarna, the buy now, pay later service...
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5.3KAdyen Lands Payments Deal For Subway In US, Canada
Adyen will help process payments for quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain Subway in the U.S. and Canada, the firms announced on Tuesday (Jan....
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3.3KNew York City Council Bans Cashless Food And Retail Stores
The New York City Council on Thursday (Jan. 23) passed a ban on cashless food and retail stores. The ban was reportedly...
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3.4KRTP Raises Transaction Threshold To $100K
The Clearing House (TCH) is upping the value limit for transactions from the current level of $25,000 to $100,000 starting Feb. 1,...
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2.5KIndian Telecom Provider Reliance Jio To Roll Out UPI Payments
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio, the largest in the country, is entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) space to compete alongside rivals,...
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4.1K‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Breaks Through
Millennials and Gen Yers are notoriously distrustful of credit. This helps explain why only about half of U.S. millennials have a credit...
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2.8KCommuters In India Will Soon Need Only One Transport Payment Card
Metro authorities in India are planning to launch automatic fare collection (AFC) gates that will work with the country’s National Common Mobility...
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3.0KTwitter Rumored To Be Considering In-Tweet Tipping
Twitter could be working on a way to “tip” people on the social media platform, though the company has so far denied...
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1.8KUK Gambling Watchdog Outlaws Credit Card Bets
In an effort to rein in problem gambling, the U.K. Gambling Commission is banning the use of credit cards for placing bets,...
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5.1KVisa Says Tokenized Transactions Set To Hit $1T, Sets Click-to-Pay Transition
For tokenized payments, $1 trillion and counting. Visa said on Tuesday (Jan. 14) that participants in its Visa Token Service are poised...
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2.5KIn Subscription Commerce, Seconds Matter
Make sign-ups fast, trials free and features rich. These are some of the quick takes from the latest PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Conversion...
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3.8KNew Year’s Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline
Parking meters in New York City won’t take credit cards because they weren’t programmed to get card payments after Jan. 1, 2020,...
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8.9K12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2020
Past is prologue. For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019),...
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3.7KFinTech Startup Curve Launches P2P Payments Feature
Curve, a banking app that consolidates all of a person’s bank cards into one card and app, is launching a new feature...
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3.0KFed Data: Non-Cash Payments Grow 6.7 Pct Per Year From 2015-2018
With the ongoing decline of checks, the growth of payments by debit and credit cards continued to speed up from 2015 to...
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6.5KCiti Treasury Services, PayPal Team On Global Mass Payouts
PayPal and Citi have grown their partnership to allow institutional clients of Citi to make payments into their customers’ PayPal digital wallets, according...
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2.5KEBA CLEARING’s Request To Pay Solution To Launch Next Fall
EBA CLEARING is launching a request to pay (R2P) solution in Europe and created specifications with the input of 27 financial institutions...
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4.6KMobile Card Apps: The Future Isn’t Plastic
It took 70 years for a majority of U.S. adults to possess a credit card, so the warp-speed adoption of mobile card...
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2.0KBuy Now, Pay Later: Cure For The Credit Hangover?
Heard about this Australia thing? “Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) alternatives made a big splash there in late 2018, had their moment...
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2.2KLast Roar Of The Paper Tiger?
What if you heard that over 70 percent of decision-makers in your industry had begun settling accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable...
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3.6KLINE Pay Taiwan To Launch Cross-Border Mobile Payment Alliance
LINE Pay Taiwan and iPASS Corp. have formed a collaboration with four major international payment brands to facilitate cross-border payments, the companies...
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2.9KFed Study: Electronic Devices Used In 24 Pct. Of Consumer Payments
Cards over cash – specifically, debit cards over cash. Among the findings of the recent 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, produced...
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5.9KFed Study: US Consumers Make Average Monthly Payments Of $3,999
In the fifth official study conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Richmond and San Francisco, the 2018 Diary of...
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3.8KGrab Launches GrabPay Card
Grab is introducing Asia’s first numberless card in batches, with Singapore launching on Thursday (Dec. 5) and the Philippines during the first...
