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3.2KApple 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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5.1KFinTech-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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3.8KWestern 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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3.8KRevolut 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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5.2KWhy 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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4.1KPayPal 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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4.4KCurve 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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4.7KACH 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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7.1KMicrosoft 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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4.1KPatreon: 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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4.9KWhy 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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3.5KGiving 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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4.6KTaking 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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5.6KPayPal, 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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3.3KPayPal 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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4.0KApple 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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4.0KSquare 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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3.0KFiserv, 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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2.8KTD 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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2.7KUnionPay 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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9.8KWhy 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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6.5KOnline 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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3.4KAlternative 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...
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2.7KIn Hungary, Instant Payments Gain Traction
The new year dawned with individual country and company initiatives tied to instant payments, and moving beyond cash transactions. To that end,...
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4.1KWhy QSRs Like Amazon Pay
Quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers are a conservative bunch when it comes to payments, new PYMNTS research found. It makes sense — the process...
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6.3KWhat Australia Can Teach The World About Real-Time Payments
On the face of it, the lure of real-time payments might seem like an inevitability. The concept is gaining traction and deployment...
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9.8K2019: The Year Of Instant Payments
Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be...
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2.9KUS Gov’t Offers Furloughed Workers Form Letters For Creditors
The agency that handles the federal workforce suggested that furloughed workers affected financially by the government shutdown could offer to pay only...
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7.1K12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2019 And Beyond
The “Twelve Days of Christmas” is a holiday classic, though some of us at PYMNTS still don’t understand why anyone would want...
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2.6KFed: Card Payments Up 10.1 Pct In 2017
Non-cash payment activity, as measured in the United States, gained ground in 2017 year over year, according to the Federal Reserve’s triennial...
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4.2KIngo CEO On 2018’s Push Payments ‘Great Awakening’ (And What’s Next)
With the launch of Ingo Money QuickConnect last week, the company capped off a year that CEO Drew Edwards told Karen Webster...
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2.5KVisa, Shieldpay Bring Card Payments To P2P, Classified Ads
Shieldpay, the London payments startup, announced Monday (Dec. 17) a new partnership with Visa in which the two will enable secure card...
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4.9KTSYS On Canadians’ Lingering Love For Credit Cards
In Canada, credit cards hold sway, the preferred method of payment across any number of settings. Here’s why paying with credit has...
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3.6KJetPay Payment Processing Goes Live Via NCR
Urban Eatz in Richardson, Texas, has become the first NCR customer to use JetPay payment processing through its point-of-sale (POS) software. Back...
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5.5KGlobal Card Payment Use Rose 13 Pct In 2017
The number of merchants accepting card payments around the world grew by 13 percent in 2017, to 69.2 million, according to a...
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9.8KDecoupled Debit — Again?
The year is 2007. Headlines are filled with news of a “revolutionary” product that will change the fortunes of merchants and unlock...
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4.4KSWIFT Pilot Focused On Reducing Payment Message Errors
SWIFT has announced the launch of a pilot program for an integrated gpi payments service designed to enable the fast identification and...
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3.3KWhatsApp Asks RBI To Expand Payment Services In India
WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook, is seeking approval from the Reserve Bank of India to extend its digital payments service...
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6.2KQR Payments Coming To Hong Kong Subways
The subway system in Hong Kong will allow commuters to scan a QR code as a payment method after announcing a deal...
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5.8KAmerican Express Launches Go For Gig Workers
American Express announced Thursday (Nov. 15) the launch of American Express Go, a new digital service aimed at helping mid-sized and large...
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7.3KChase Card Services President On Why It’s Time For Cards To Tap And Go
How to speed the checkout process? To echo an old Dustin Hoffman film, the answer may lie with one word: plastic. To...
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5.9KChase Rolls Out Tap-to-Pay Visa Credit Cards
Chase said Wednesday (Nov. 14) that it is rolling out tap-to-pay functionality across its Chase Visa card portfolio, an initiative that will...
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4.3KConnecting The Dots On Paying With Connected Devices
Black Friday looms. The holidays loom. Time to take stock, then, of How We Will Pay – in the retail setting, of course,...
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3.1KAmex Biz Gold Card Offers Flexible Repayments
American Express announced on Thursday (Nov. 8) the launch of its new Business Gold Card, which comes with four times Membership Rewards...
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3.9KLouis Vuitton Does Cross-Border Payments, Connects To SWIFT Via FIS
FIS, a global leader in financial services technology, announced that it has connected LVMH Group to the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi)....
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2.7K7-Eleven Rolls Out Scan-And-Go For Dallas Customers
Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is rolling out scan-and-go options for customers in 14 stores in Dallas later this week, with an aim to...
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6.4KACH Network Payment Volume Jumps In Q3
NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association – announced Thursday (Nov. 1) that automated clearing house (ACH) payments totaled more than 5.6 billion in the third...
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6.1K‘Promise’ Startup Wants To Replace ACH
A white paper has revealed a master plan to replace the U.S.’s Automated Clearing House (ACH) network. “Promise: A Decentralized, Peer-to-Peer, Proxy...
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6.0KThe Three Reasons Why Businesses Still Use Checks
Checks, despite their near extinction in consumer payments, remain alive and well when it comes to businesses paying each other. And that,...
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4.7KGrab, Mastercard Bring Prepaid Cards To Southeast Asia
Grab, the ride-hailing company out of Southeast Asia, and Mastercard, the payment company, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 24) a partnership to issue...
