Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Vouchr Founder On Using P2P To Reinvent The Gift Of Cash
October 25, 2017

Differentiating a banking and mobile payments platform from its competitors can seem like an impossible task. When two services provide only basic functionality it’s easy to see why consumers and even business clients might see both as interchangeable – but there’s a new frontier in...

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UL Deploys Bots To Test Payment Terminals
October 18, 2017

Payment software company Abrantix announced news that it has partnered with UL to launch the UL Brand Test Robot for a quicker and more efficient way to automate payment terminal brand certification testing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Market Snapshot Shows Merchant EMV Chip Use On The Rise
October 13, 2017

The U.S. Payments Forum has released its fall 2017 market snapshot, showing that merchant EMV chip enablement is on the rise. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

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Token Certification Fast Tracks Global Open Banking
October 10, 2017

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of payments and message integration software, announced its VolPay Hub is now fully tested, qualified and integrated with TokenOS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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 Bitcoin Slides On China ICO Ban
September 05, 2017

Bitcoin prices were hit by a significant downdraft in the wake of news Monday that Chinese regulators have put in place a ban on initial coin offerings, known as ICOs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Taming The High Risk Merchant Beast
September 01, 2017

T1 Payments has a lot in the hopper, with a new same-day settlement to partners offering coming soon. At the same time, the firm has been investing in managing merchant fraud. CEO Don Kasdon weighed in on what high risk really means when it comes...

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The ROI On Being A PayFac? Zero
August 31, 2017

With changes happening all around us every day, the highly adaptive and evolutionary tendencies of technology in the closing years of the 2010s sometimes mean big changes — seismic changes — can happen in a way that is almost kind of quiet. Get the Full...

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Payments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’
August 23, 2017

What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We did, and we posed that question to Marqeta CTO Tony Ford. What he said might surprise you. But what it may lack in...

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FLEETCOR Closes On Its $690M Buy Of Cambridge Global Payments
August 10, 2017

FLEETCOR Technologies, a global provider of commercial payment solutions, announced Wednesday (Aug. 9) that it has closed its acquisition of Cambridge Global Payments, the B2B international payments provider, for approximately $690 million. The deal was announced on May 1. Get the Full Story Complete the...