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1.5KPPRO, Credorax Pair On Alt Payment Methods Abroad
PPRO Group, a U.K. cross-border ePayment provider, announced a partnership with Credorax to boost its Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) offerings throughout Europe. Credorax...
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2.9KStripe Takes On Square, Clover With New Terminal
Stripe, the payments company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and...
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2.5KNACHA Approves Expansion Of Same Day ACH
NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association — announced that its membership has approved three new rules that will expand Same-Day ACH for all financial institutions...
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2.3KNACHA ACH Payments Volume Tops 2 Billion
ACH Network volume surpassed 2 billion transactions in August, an increase of more than 10 percent compared to the previous year. NACHA — The Electronic...
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1.3KPayPal, Small Businesses And The Ongoing Fight Against Friction
At the end of the day, small businesses want to do the thing they went into business to do. Shoe stores want to...
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4.7KNXP On Plastic Cards: There’s A Lot Of Life Left
The plastic payment card is dead. Long live the plastic payment card! Forgive the whipsaw attitude, but that’s how it can feel...
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4.0KMerchants And Tokenization’s Sea Change
Merchants must manage billions of tokens – easier said than done. Nitin Prabhu, PayPal’s senior director of issuance, tokenization and loyalty platform, offers...
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1.8KFlipkart Reportedly Rolling Out Payment Services
Flipkart, the eCommerce giant based in India, is getting into the financial services industry with two new products. According to a report...
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2.8KThe Transition From Tellers To Digital Touchpoints In LATAM
Mass payments are no novel concept. Readers of this space know that many verticals and functions, from insurance to payroll – where payments...
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1.7KIn China, Credit Cards And Mobile (And Beyond), Payments Yin And Yang
The yin and yang concept, born in China, can be applied to so many things. The theme that opposites may be complementary...
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3.3KZelle Eyeing Expansion Into Small Business Payments
Zelle, the digital payment app that enables consumers to send money to friends and family, is gearing up to expand its offering...
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2.0KSquare Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US
Square, the digital payments company, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 15) that it delivered on its pledge to make EMV transactions faster in the...
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1.4KEMVCo Launches 3DS Test Platform
Secure payments enabler EMVCo has announced the launch of the full EMV 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) Test Platform. The platform allows 3DS product...
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2.3KHow Merchant Link Thinks Hotels Can Maximize QR Code Growth
Alternative payments methods, such as contactless and QR codes, have been growing globally in popularity for the last half-decade or so. However,...
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1.9KChase Card Services Teams With Expedia On Expanded Travel Rewards
Chase Card Services and Expedia Group announced on Monday (Aug. 13) a strategic alliance that will boost the Chase Ultimate Rewards travel hub....
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2.5KMeet The Personas Behind The Rise Of Contextual Commerce
It can happen at the office. It can happen on Facebook and Pinterest. It can happen on a well-crafted blog designed to...
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1.6KToshiba Global Commerce Solutions Sees 46 Percent Market Share Growth
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, the global retail electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology company, announced on Monday (July 30) that it has grown...
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2.3KCalifornia Kroger Subsidiary Says No To Visa
Foods Co, a subsidiary of grocery giant Kroger, has announced that 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations...
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4.1KChase Pay Customers With Samsung Phones Can Link To Samsung Pay
JPMorgan Chase announced Friday (July 27) that Chase Pay customers with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone can link Chase Pay to Samsung Pay....
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3.6KFlywire Raises $100M To Expand Into New Markets
Flywire, the payment company for businesses and institutions, announced on Thursday (July 26) that it has raised $100M in new venture funding....
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1.6KACH Network Payment Volume Jumps 6.2 Percent In Q2
NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association announced Wednesday (July 25) that debit and credit transactions totaled more than 5.7 billion in the second...
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1.9KHyperwallet Streamlines Global Payouts For Wordapp.com
Global payments provider Hyperwallet announced today (July 17) that it is launching mass payment distribution for Wordapp.com, a content processing platform for...
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7.0KNew Payments Rule Could Cost Alipay, Tencent More Than $1B
Alipay and Tencent, operators of the two leading digital payment services in China, could lose as much as $1 billion combined in...
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5.7KGlobal Payments Industry Sees Surge In Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions in the global payments industry have hit record highs in 2018, especially in the payments technology market. Financial Times (FT) reported...
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3.9K‘Dollars On The Floor’ — Why A Lack Of Local Payment Options Hurts Retailers
In Germany, security matters. In China, one must make sure to bring their top mobile game. Scandinavia has a thing for invoice-based...
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3.4KIntegrated Payments, With Regulation In Mind
To paraphrase an old maxim: There is nothing new under the sun. There are just new ways to pay for it. Payments done...
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2.0KFirecracker Research Informs Payments Decision Makers
Languid hot holiday day? Day off from work? Time to get thinking -- about payments, financial services and innovation, and getting a leg...
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1.7KLike Amazon, Tesco Tests Out Cashier-less Payments At C-Store
Months after Amazon rolled out its cashier-less convenience store (C-Store) dubbed Amazon Go, Tesco is testing a checkout-free payment method in the...
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3.2KContactless Payments Take The Prize At World Cup Stadiums
Soccer is a contact sport, but fans are using contactless payments at one of the sport’s most famous events: Approximately 17 percent...
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1.9KBoston’s Commuter Rail Will Now Accept Card Payments Onboard
The MBTA and its operating partner Keolis Commuter Services have announced that, beginning this fall, commuter rail passengers in Boston will be able to...
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3.2KUnionPay Partners With Bank of China To Bring QR Code Payments To Canada
UnionPay International is partnering with Bank of China’s Canadian unit to launch its QR code payment service in Canada. According to a...
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3.9KFirst Data: Creating The Digital Disbursements Standard
Not exotic. Just another step on the path to make instant disbursements a standard way to pay at a time when the...
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2.7KWells Fargo Launches Revamped Propel Rewards Card
Wells Fargo announced Monday (June 25) an overhaul of its Propel Card, its no-annual-fee rewards cards. In a press release, Wells Fargo said...
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2.7KWhatsApp Payment Customers In India To Have 24-Hour Support
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger app, is gearing up to roll out 24-hour customer support for customers who use its upcoming payment services in...
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7.0KBBVA Merges Two Units And Debuts Selfie Payment System
As BBVA steps up its digital efforts, the bank is merging its Beeva and i4S units to form a company called BBVA Next Technologies. The...
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4.9KUber Facilitated More Than $600M In Tips For Drivers
Uber, the ride-hailing company, has facilitated more than $600 million of payments in the form of tips to its drivers since it launched its...
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2.8KSingapore Launches PayNow To Reduce Cash, Checks
Singapore is launching a payments platform in an attempt to reduce the use of cash and checks as the country moves towards...
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2.7KShake Shack Founders Stand By Cashless Move
Danny Meyer is defending his restaurant group’s decision to test out cashless transactions, saying they are not looking to exclude prospective guests....
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3.3KWhatsApp’s Indian Payment Feature Boasts One Million Users
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app that counts more than 200 million monthly users, has launched a payments feature in India during the...
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3.8KVenmo To Phase Out Web Support
Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment app owned by PayPal, is gearing up to discontinue web support for its payment service. TechCrunch, citing an...
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4.1KThe Payments Bucket List (No, It’s Not What You Think)
We compartmentalize our daily lives, separating goals and task into manageable “buckets” of thought and actions. Why should payments be any different? ...
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Zelle Projected To Grow More Than 73 Percent In 2018
With Zelle projected to overtake Venmo, eMarketer expects the payment service to grow more than 73 percent this year. The firm is...
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3.1KGasBuddy CEO: GasBack Is The New Cash Back
With about 220 million drivers on the road, gas is a commodity that nearly everybody needs. The average American fills up their...
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3.2KAmex Rolls Out New Cash Back, No Annual Fee Cash Magnet Card
American Express, the payments company, announced Thursday (June 14) the latest addition to its cash back portfolio the no annual fee American...
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2.6KMicrosoft To Take On Amazon In Cashierless Checkout
Microsoft wants to take Amazon.com on in the cashierless checkout market — the software giant is working on its own self-checkout technology. According...
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2.9KMezu: What It Would Take To Replace Cash
When Yuval Brisker landed in Tel Aviv for a family function, he didn’t have time to stop at a bank and exchange...
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Wells Fargo Merchant Services SMB Pricing Not At Parity With Square
Wells Fargo Merchant Services has decided to simplify the prices it charges small businesses (SMBs) to accept credit and debit card transactions...
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1.8KNJ Transit Upgrades Reduce Cash, Paper Ticket Usage
New Jersey Transit announced it is planning to modernize its fare payment system through proposed upgrades that would reduce cash and paper-based...
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1.7KAirlines Go Cashless For Checked Bags
Airline passengers who want to pay in cash might find themselves spending more. American Airlines, which stopped accepting cash payments for snacks...
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3.1KFiserv: How FIs Can Stay Ahead Of The Credit Card Pack
Spending on credit cards will continue to grow, but any issuer that decides to take a breath, instead of crafting creative rewards...
