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853Columbia 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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1.1KDiving 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...
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2.1KWild Cards? eGaming, Payroll, Credit, Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid
Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them...
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3.0KChina UnionPay Launches Debit, Credit Cards In Europe
China UnionPay, the credit card issuer, is expanding in Europe, rolling out debit and credit cards. The Financial Times, citing China UnionPay,...
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2.2KWestern Union’s Playbook For Balancing Cash And Digital Payments
Despite the dreams and expectations among all kinds of people during the rise of eCommerce and digital payments, cash isn’t really going...
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2.3KSynchrony Financial CEO Takes ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach With Apple Card
Margaret Keane, the CEO of Synchrony Financial, the biggest provider of store credit cards, said the card industry will be keeping a...
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2.3KVisa: EMV Drives POS Counterfeit Fraud Down 76 Pct
Visa said this week that as acceptance of EMV cards has gained traction in the U.S., counterfeit fraud, measured in dollars for...
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4.0KNordic’s P27 Mulls Buying Swedish Clearing Platform
The Nordic’s P27, a bank-owned initiative to create a common payments platform across the region, is looking into buying Swedish clearing payment...
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2.4KSquare: Most SMBs Will Always Accept Cash
Rumors of the death of cash – as in complete extinction – are greatly exaggerated. Even as digital payments gain ground, cash still...
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1.7KNew York City’s MTA To Accept Google Pay At Select Subway, Bus Lines
Aiming to make it easier for people to commute, Google Pay announced Thursday (May 23) it has added New York City’s Metropolitan...
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3.1KCBD Companies Can Process Payments Through Square Now
Square, the digital payments company, is getting into the CBD market, launching a payment processing service for the industry. Forbes, citing Square,...
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1.8KCards Taking Over Cash In Emerging Economies
In several emerging nations, where disposable income may be on a general uptrend, lumpy though that trend may be, as cash use is...
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2.6KWhat Will It Take To Hit The Instant Payments Tipping Point?
Instant payments is an innovation that doesn’t require much explanation. Getting immediate access to money is an obviously better solution than waiting for the check to arrive in the mail, or constantly...
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5.6KPolicymakers Introduce Bills To Ban Cashless Stores In US
In moves that could put a stop to cashless stores, two legislators brought bills forth in Congress to make business accept cash...
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3.6KAmadeus Teams With Elavon, Mastercard For Flight Payments
Amadeus, the travel technology solutions company, announced on Tuesday (May 14) that it has teamed up with Elavon and Mastercard to facilitate...
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3.2KDeutsche Bank Taps Malaysian Instant Credit Clearing System
Deutsche Bank announced on Tuesday (May 14) that it is tapping Malaysia‘s instant credit clearing system, DuitNow, to process payments for corporate...
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2.5KP97, PayByCar Team For Mobile Pay At Pump Via E-ZPass
P97 Networks Inc., the cloud-based mobile commerce, in-vehicle payments and digital marketing solutions company, announced Monday (May 13) a reseller partnership with...
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2.4KCard Payments In Germany Surpass Cash For The First Time
Card payments in Germany, a traditionally cash-forward country, have surpassed cash payments for the first time in history, according to reports. A...
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2.1KACH Sees Steady Growth In 2019
The ACH Network has started off 2019 strong, with the number of payments in Q1 up 5.8 percent from the previous year....
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2.4KCash Is Here To Stay In The UK
The British Government has announced that it will protect the future of cash to make sure the proliferation of digital currency doesn’t...
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3.8KRBS Gets Back Into Payments Ten Years After It Unloaded Worldpay
Royal Bank of Scotland is going after the payments market, launching a new unit Thursday (May 2) that will put it in...
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3.2KRiverPay Aids Merchants With QR Code Payment Integration
The UnionPay card in China is accepted by more than 80 percent of merchants in the United States, but Chinese customers are...
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3.2KUber Eats Now Supports Apple Pay
Uber announced on Wednesday (April 17) that it is adding Apple Pay to its popular Uber Eats app, according to reports. Customers...
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7.5KWhy Card Replacement Is Every Bank’s ‘Moment Of Truth’
It happens. An issuer suspects a card has been compromised, or a consumer remembers that their debit card is in their jacket...
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6.2KThe Next Big Cashless Play: Cannabis
Blunt question for PYMNTS readers (pun intended): Have you been inside a pot shop lately? One of the legal operations that are...
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4.7KAtlanta Stadium’s Cashless Move Shows Little Demand For Cash
The move toward cashless has set in motion any number of initiatives, spanning any number of businesses where consumers shop, from retail...
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10.7KVisa Gives Businesses New Way To Pay Gig Workers In Real Time
The gig economy is growing. The desire to get paid faster is also gaining traction — along with the companies satisfying that desire....
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6.6KWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Credit, Debit Cards
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release, Wells Fargo said...
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5.5KDollar General, Western Union Team Up To Expand Access To Money Transfers
Dollar General and Western Union announced Tuesday (April 2) that customers can complete Western Union money transfers at more than 15,400 locations...
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3.6KReport: Richest People In America Have Record-Level Cash Stashes
The wealthiest households in America are stashing cash at record levels, according to a report by Bloomberg. The top 1 percent have...
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5.1KWorld Bank Sees DLT Potential For Cross-Border Transactions
The jockeying for cross border-payments continues, and SWIFT and Ripple continue to dominate the headlines. At heart of the matter, of course,...
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8.6KApple Debuts Apple Card, A Virtual (And Physical) Credit Card
And so a tech giant gets into the credit card game. And not just any tech giant – it’s Apple, the company...
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5.4KVenmo Pursues Customers With Negative Balances
Venmo, the digital money transfer company owned by PayPal, is going after consumers who have a negative balance in their accounts. According to...
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3.7KTwitch Removes Support For Crypto Payments
Twitch, the streaming gaming platform, has reportedly dumped cryptocurrency as a payment method. According to a report in CCN, citing a Reddit...
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5.2KSamsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way of life – even if they aren’t exactly...
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2.5KGo-Pay Wants To Strengthen Its Position In Indonesia Payments Market
Go-Pay, the digital payment unit of Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Go-Jek, plans to strengthen its position in the digital payments market as...
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3.9KBill Pay Service Doxo Adds Apple Pay Compatibility
Mobile and web payment service doxo announced on Thursday (May 21) that it is adding Apple Pay compatibility, according to a release...
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2.9KWorldnet, POSDATA Team On EMV Payments
Worldnet Payments announced Tuesday (March 19) that it has entered into a strategic agreement with POSDATA to deliver fully integrated and pre-certified...
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5.7KHow Many Multibillion-Dollar Deals Does It Take To Change Payments?
Behind the billions of dollars — OK, make that tens and tens of billions of dollars — in deal-making that has marked...
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8.7KWhat Is The Perfect Payments Experience?
Here’s an exercise that may come off as too academic – like a debate over how many angels fit on a pinhead –...
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9.0KSephora Stores Launches Its First Credit Card
Sephora, the beauty retailer, announced on Thursday (March 14) the launch of a new credit card program in San Francisco. The company...
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4.2KBarclaycard Brings Alipay To UK Retailers With New Deal
Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese...
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6.2KAutomate Or Stagnate: The Accounts Payable No-Choice Choice
Inertia is a powerful, if unhelpful, force in business. A process doesn’t necessarily have to be good or useful to get a...
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4.2KUPI, NIBank Partner For Latin American Payment Solutions
UnionPay International (UPI), a cross-border payments company based in China, has signed an agreement with Latin American bank NIBank to bring payment...
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4.8KAlipay Comes To Canada
SnapPay, the Canadian cross-border payments company, and Alipay, the Chinese digital payments platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced a collaboration Wednesday...
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4.4KUS Faster Payments Council Announces Founding Sponsors
The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), which was launched by the Fed in November, announced on Wednesday (March 6) its 20 founding...
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5.2KNFC Forum Shares Specs For QR Codes Alternative
The NFC Forum, the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday...
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4.5KBarclaycard Inks Deal With UnionPay
Barclaycard, the U.K. payment company, announced Tuesday (March 5) that it has inked a new partnership with UnionPay International, a unit of...
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6.4KApple 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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9.3KFinTech-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....