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2.7KPayPal 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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3.1KTech 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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2.3KPaytm’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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1.5KWhy 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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4.0KPayment 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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1.7KdLocal 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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2.4KHouzz 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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3.4KReport: 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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3.5KCan 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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3.0KWhatsApp 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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3.6KNevada 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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3.8KTaking 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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3.5KIf 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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4.6KPayPal’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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2.3KAmex 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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2.1KBank 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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2.3KOld 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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2.4KThe 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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2.0KPoland’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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2.3KCan 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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2.6KAmex 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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1.8KDiscover 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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2.0KColumbia 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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3.5KDiving 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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3.5KWild 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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4.3KChina 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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3.6KWestern 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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3.7KSynchrony 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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3.5KVisa: 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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5.0KNordic’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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3.6KSquare: 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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2.9KNew 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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5.7KCBD 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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2.2KCards 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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3.9KWhat 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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6.6KPolicymakers 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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5.1KAmadeus 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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3.8KDeutsche 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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2.8KP97, 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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2.9KCard 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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2.6KACH 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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2.8KCash 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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4.4KRBS 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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3.6KRiverPay 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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3.9KUber 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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8.1KWhy 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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6.8KThe 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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5.1KAtlanta 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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11.3KVisa 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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7.9KWells 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...
